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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
2
A vintage style ad urges customers to choose pure cream with promises of slow payment, daily wagon deliveries, and careful attention. It mentions telephone contact and out-of-town order handling as a key service, emphasizing l ong standing customer sustainability.
At a New York Missionary stock conference closing session Reverend Tyrrett of St Louis critiqued philanthropic gifts to colleges and universities. He warned against the influence of wealth on religion saying commercial ventures should not touch primer charity and denounced Rockefeller donations as failing to purify air with true religious motive.
Travel advertisement notes $6.00 to St Louis with weekly departures on Wednesdays and Tuesdays through October 21, 1897. Mentions consumption remedy and Cherry cough syrup available at a drumgiste.
In Chicago Luetgert murder case the state presented a rust-stained pocket knife with blood-like stains, claimed to be the weapon. Witnesses including Mrs. Christiana Fekit and Emma Schimpke testified amid cross-examinations as defense lawyers pressed for credibility.
A secret gold hunt sails from San Francisco to the Solomon Islands aboard the schooner Sophia Sutherland under South Sea Commercial, with Captain Alexander Maclean in command. The crew includes renowned confederates, armed forces, stores for 18 months, mining gear, and two expert pearl divers seeking new fishery treasures.
The Paris correspondent reports a plan to revise the French constitution with the national assembly to meet at Versailles to modify the presidency. The Chronicle suggests a move toward a hereditary monarchy could arise during Paure’s St Petersburg visit, with Bonapartist and Orleanist factions potentially backing it, though serious action is doubtful.
Consul O'Hara reports Nicaragua bans wooden rims due to weather. He suggests active agents could push bicycle sales as Spanish American women begin to ride. Typewriters reportedly aid microbe destruction, with Morris noting a new Belgian retting method to destroy microbes in Max cellulose matter under ongoing experiments.
A Washington report details Japan's textile output with 1668 looms employing 10 126 people including 5 010 women and shio The year’s textile value totals 6 137 235 with silk 46 401 401 etc Kaness for Gattis and Hoge notes Upperville Va buyer plans cattle and hog farming in Washington county He writes to Secretary Coburn seeking reports on ensilage and farming notes a boy returns home with a hand wound treated by Meyer Bros and Chamberlains balm deemed essential by locals Also mentions Deng Co St Louis Missouri druggists selling the product
Washington reports Senators Foraker of Ohio and Harris of Kansas, members of a Senate subcommittee, met informally regarding the sinking fund of the Union Pacific Central Pacific and related matters. They discuss action post Omaha decree and possible appeal by the attorney general to push the issue into the next session.
London newspapers discuss the Daily Mall raising price from one cent to two cents starting January first. Owner Harmsworth and Editor Kennedy Jones admit a first class morning paper cannot be produced for a cent and pledge the price increase amid rival doubts.
New York reports the sale of a premier butterfly collection to T. Macintyre of Macintyre & Co. in London. HM Barron of Barron & Co. sold the large, world spanning assortment, with rare specimens from South America Africa and Australia. The buyer sails on the Lucania and plans to donate the collection to an English museum after arrival. The sale price was not disclosed.
London reports a delay in forming a royal commission for the Fort Exposition of 190, due to a dispute over space and funding for British exhibitors. The Prince of Wales has accepted the chairmanship and is taking an active interest, settling the space issue.
A testimonial from WS Swett of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co praising Dr Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets. He reports improved reading, memory, and navigation after starting last July, claiming vitality restored to levels he had at age 35. He notes the testimonial is unsolicited and urges public awareness of the product's benefits. The ad offers Kola Nervine Tablets for 50 cents and $1 per box, with address for testimonials.
San Francisco dispatch reports Guatemala faces a worsening crisis with seven major business failures totaling around seven million in depreciated Central American currency. President Reina Barrios, blamed for autocratic moves, seeks to extend power. Morales opposing him promises conflict either way as Barrios allegedly orders killings of prominent critics and others.
Sioux Falls Sept 9 Judge Carlan issues a temporary injunction restraining the South Dakota railroad commission from enacting a new schedule of rates. Eight railways must post bonds of 10000 dollars. The court granted the carriers a chance to prove the rates unreasonable before they take effect, with a hearing set within twenty days.
In Birmingham on September a meeting of over 50 delegates to the Trades Union Congress adopted a resolution urging an international monetary settlement. It calls for restoring bimetallic exchange between gold and silver to provide a common standard of values worldwide and asks the government to honor parliamentary pledges in current negotiations.
Six of ten aboard the Blanche drowned in Lake St Clair when three youths on the boom caused the yacht to lurch and capsize near Fox Creek. The seven survivors were rescued by a shore boat. The victims named include Thomas Fritz HL Gertis Grant Murray Thomas Newsom Charles Rice Pay Tansey.
Constantinople reports confirm Murad Bey, the former imperial commissioner of the council of the public debt and Young Turk leader, recently fled to Russia and may have gone to Paris before disappearing. Fate unknown. In Humboldt two youths fined for violating the game law. Also an ad for Cine Minute Cough Cure.
The Cape May hotel faces hunger as guests flee and 50 room staff refuse to leave without wages. Manager Cake remains at headquarters while servants guard the building, rationing food, seeking back pay, and planning to walk to Philadelphia without funds unless owed wages are settled.
Special to the Republican reports from Santa Fe that in drilling for water at Golden in South Sandoval County a tubular well passed through 50 feet of solid quartz carrying free gold. Nuggets as large as wheat grains were found at 39 feet. Excitement grows as shafts are to be sunk. Believed one of the year’s major gold finds.
Columbus September 9 The gold Democratic state committee reports a letter from John G Carlisle endorsing the gold movement in Ohio and urging the convention to read it. A telegram from Indiana's Bynum says he will attend. J A Curh Walte withdraws from senatorial consideration to aid the stump effort. The platform denounces free silver and echoes Chicago platform objections. Samuel Stevens is nominated for state treasurer.
A special dispatch from Butte Montana reports several hours of snow with cold weather. The snow melted quickly as it fell, leaving streets damp and slick in a brief late summer blast reaching Denver.
President Andrews of Brown University refuses to withdraw his resignation and will stay only until a successor is chosen. A corporation meeting within two weeks will hear his latest statement. Chicago sweltered at 83 degrees with high humidity and a hot southwest wind as a heat wave affected the region.
Detroit bankruptcy notes the American Eagle Tobacco company successors to Barker & Co assigned today to Union Trust with assets listed at 169000 dollars. The president S. Smith is the heaviest creditor at 3600. The report cites gradual tobacco trust inroads as the major cause of failure.
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