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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1903
Page
4
Railroad news outlines a scheme for the Louisville and Nashville line to serve breakfast en route to New Orleans from Gulf Coast points. The plan features steaming coffee, sandwiches, eggs and cakes, with movable trays and heated coffee urns and two waiters attending aboard.
The eighth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Rail Caramel of America opens in St Louis for four days with 223 delegates from across the U S and Canada. Welcoming remarks by Sikyoe Kotla Welle and A F Gander of St Louis preside. constitution work and membership increases noted. Carmeliters from Milwaukee and Cincinnati expected to help secure the two year term. Madison Intel to host delegates at Lemp Park and Madison headquarters in St Louis.
Himaton Texas September 1 G Ho Mark executive of Southern Lines in Texas argues that the extensive multimillion dollar wells will aid other Texas industries. He notes that for the year ended June 30 average injury claims total 578 8obacca of Secretarial claims. local passenger Hhaitter earnings on the same tires were limited. In 1906 the firm paid $500 to the same account while SAO miles of Northwest South West road from New Mexico to Utah California Nevada Oregon and Utah show only 316000.
Dr Kilmer Swamp Root offered as the great remedy for kidney bladder and uric troubles. Claims to relieve back pain reduce water retention and aid after liquor effects. Free book and sample bottle offered by mail from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. readers urged to mention the Tepes Daily Stat Journal.
A report via a St Louis contact claims Newport News will serve as the terminal for a new thad line with rival routes to exist alongside C&O. A railway between Newport News and Wallarasbore is planned, highlighting superior water facilities at Newport News versus Portsmouth.
An article presents a study of U S steel rail production from 1860s onward with a table of prices by year. It notes peak prices around 927 41 per ton during early expansion and a boom in railroad building driving prices up to 6822 per ton, followed by a long period of near uniform pricing.
Rockville informants report a former F. F. trainmaster received a medal for efficiency in equipment and outstanding general division condition. The honor comes amid a respected career with ties to El Puente Del Rio and Arkansas City routes, drawing praise from Rockville friends.
A bustling period on new rail construction in the Creek Nation aims to connect Muskogee with the Missouri Pacific system. Proposed lines would run from Wagoner to Falls City and toward Kansas City and Memphis, with a main passenger service dubbed the Wagoner Limited.
Fragmentary OCR describes a proposed rail corridor from Muskogee along the Arkansas River toward Santa Fe, with potential connections through Claremore and Brattle Crow area. It notes delays and a survey underway to map parallel routes and subsequent follow up surveys, hinting at a northern extension toward Owes.
The Rock Island group has been large buyers of Atchison stock in recent weeks. A sizable block of common stock is held in a major New York bank for their account. Bank circles note Rock Island’s long aim to gain control, with financing likely to continue while the situation remains unsettled.
Mrs Frederick Knight of Toledo related how her husband’s silver casket with his ashes, kept near her for five years, was checked to Waukegan instead of Waukesha. After a frantic search via telegraph and a stop in Chicago, the missing case was found at Waukegan and returned.
The Hock Island, now under practical control of the Houston and Texas Central and the Houston East and West Texas, will appoint a traffic manager. J. H. Johnson, the freight commissioner of the Galveston bureau, has been selected and will accept. Rock Island contractor dead: Robert Eldridge, a sub contractor east of Windsor, Mo, died last night of typhoid fever. The remains will be shipped to Sargent Falls, I.
A prominent railroad official in Mexico City announced in San Antonio that on October 1 four Mexican railroads will merge to form one large system. The National Rail of Mexico the Mexican International the Inter Oceanic Railway of Mintd and the Tehuantepec National will unite under a single network.
For months reports circulate that the Mexican government backs a merger creating one pit and one general banker while four traffic officer sets are planned. Three men are discussed for the presidency E N Brown J G Metcalfe and Walter Mercom in leadership talks.
Three hundred ten grain cars stranded on the Santa Fe west of town were moved into Argentine yards yesterday and today. The cars are destined for Kansas City Kreinvisa. Delays boosted grain prices by about 30 dollars per car, leaving shippers claiming a windfall.
A Frisco passenger train collided with a standing freight one mile from Baxter Springs Kansas injuring twelve people two seriously The injured were taken to Springs hotel for treatment Names ages and injuries include an unknown black woman and a white invalid woman with two small children several others suffered cuts bruises and broken noses The engineer and fireman were fined and released to duty.
Beach Haven New Jersey September reports on University of Pennsylvania football coach Carl Williams dismissing halfback Wechsler for reporting to preliminary practice 40 pounds overweight. Wechsler, once a star, weighed 169 pounds last year and arrived far heavier, prompting the coach to form an eleven heavy but strong and fast. The Penn squad spent its second week at Beach Haven preparing for positions while other racing notes from Detroit cover Julius Sinchole of Paris and Papillon Page in difficult track conditions at Grosse Pointe.
Tom Cooper and Barney Oldfield split a pair of five mile races in a bustling afternoon meeting. In the first race Cooper’s engine faltered, Oldfield led by up to 300 yards and won by about 350. The rematch for a manufacturers’ cup saw Cooper recover, take the lead at the start, and win by about a quarter mile with Harry Cunningham of Cleveland battling Oldfield for second place.
C M Hetherington of Miscou and Athletics Plank of Kansas discussed venue changes for the Thanksgiving game in Kansas City. Association Park favored for better seating and safety. talks with Western League officials failed. Kansas Nebraska, Missouri, and Haskell matchups teased to precede the big Thanksgiving clash.
Washington newspaper correspondents halted at Oakley Kansas to view an agricultural display by the Oakley Fair Association. They toured the Hays station, learned about farming in the semi arid region, and noted corn reaching 12 feet, three ears per stalk, and wheat averaging 32 bushels per acre. The exhibit impressed the visitors and will next go to Topeka’s Kansas State Fair with Union Pacific officials and university staff assisting.
A Kingman event opened with a substantial turnout featuring a cowboy parade horseback riding contests and horse racing. The write up notes a crowd enjoying the program though some stray lines mention suffering and a potentially ineffective cure for coughs.
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