State Journal Official City Paper Twenty Fourth Fear
The State Journal offers daily and weekly editions delivered by carrier in Topeka and suburbs with mail options. Subscriptions include three months, one year, and home delivery from the State Journal Building at 50 and Kansas Avenue.
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Topeks State Journal
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Late American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Weather Indications and Prescott Political Reform Debate
Weather outlook for Chicago Sept 11: fall tonight and Sunday with variable winds. Prescott adopts initiative and referendum, comparing tax shifts and land value trends. Commentary notes urban property gains, tax distributions, and citizen control via new voting procedures. Observers anticipate national interest in Prescott's two month experiment.
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Chicago
Kansas writers in demand in September reviews
Karen M Hastty, once of Fistchinion News now Chicago Civic Pederathm secretary, writes a compicucns article in September Review of Reviews warning on caveus oyster evils. A Renesas book The Story of a Country Town boom cited as best since Haw Sheree. D W Wider of Hiawatha credited with first writing that country town tale. Charlie M Harger of the Abien Re ecwor notes a prime in September.
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Fistchinion News
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Renesas
D. W. Wider
Hiawatha
Rail alliance shifts rail routes toward Gulf in west south
The North American Review piece discusses a new western south business alliance and predicts major Western gains as rail lines realign toward the Gulf. It notes trains will carry loaded cars southward and currently many cars must travel north empty, signaling upcoming efficiency.
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Nebraska
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Wheat Cost Per Acre and Yields Across Kansas Counties
James Glover of Har yer county submits to the state agricultural department an estimate of wheat costs and yields, indicating per acre costs from $1 to $2 and yields from 15 to 40 bushels. Examples include 21 3 bushels in one county and 80 bushels per acre in another, with cautions against overoptimistic hopes of rapid fortune.
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James Glover
Haryer
State Agricultural Department
Itmrper
Lisworth
Israel McComas
Jackson County
Warren Fulton
Pattawatomie
Coburn Hay
Sumner
Cowley
Deluge of Bad Pearls Jeweled Valuations Declared
St Louis report from Arkansas describes pearl fisheries dwindling in value as few offerings meet market standards. Many specimens misperceived as valuable are inspected and rejected. Buyers report widespread delusion. only a handful of pearls fetch modest prices.
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Ruling Set Aside Shifts Postmaster Tenure Across Nation
Washington reports Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow overturns Bleisel on four year terms for postmasters. The change limits successors to unexpired terms, impacting fourth class and presidential offices nationwide and threatening job security for many incumbents. In Uruguay peace is reported after mediation by Dr Retmives with Cruscan Insurgents.
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Washington
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Iyeasen
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Southwest
Uruguay
Montevides
Retmives
To Cure a Cold in One Day
An old time ad notes Take Laxative Bromo Quinine to cure a cold in one day. It claims a full refund if not cured and lists Gunther's Pharmacy at the corner of 25th and Jackson as a point of sale with a 25 cent price.
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Jackson
Sunday church services and temperance talks listed
A long list of Sunday activities from churches across Topeka and surrounding areas. Preachers include W. M. Carle of Princeton Theological Seminary and Rev. Abram Wyman, with schedules for morning and evening services, Sunday schools, temperance themes, confirmations, and evangelistic meetings at venues such as Parkdale M E, Oakland Presbyterian, First Baptist, St John A M E, First Christian, and United Presbyterian churches.
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Princeton Theological Seminary
Parkdale M. ES
Word Lensee
Nellie Strait
Fourteenth and
van Buren Streets
W. L. Fox
Eighth
Topeka
M. F. Mead
Aerst Unitarias Society
Tinlty Church
Minster
Abram Wyman
Oakland Presbyterian Church
Tlam
Perance
Temperance
Bethel Church
Swedish Lutheral Church
Cornee Fourth
Tyler Streets
Society of the Confirmed Mert
A. Engstrand
Pirst Baptist Datch
Ninth and
Jackson Streets
MT Thomas
John’s A
Rubsert
Ransom
First Christian Church
Topeka Avenue
P&c
C. B. Dalton
Walnut Grove
W. J. Cox
Bath
Second
United Presbyterian Church
Polk and
Huntoan
United Brethren Church
Ladies' Library Hall
Kansas Avenue
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SC. Coblentz
Charles B. Sheldon
Kansas
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Our City
First African Baptist Church
First Street
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Laure Radford
W. CA
Kansan Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church
Embree
Buck
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Death at Mis Anvil and the Golden Medical Discovery
An advertisement-style note warning workers to watch health emphasizes using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to treat torpid liver and bad digestion. It cites testimonials from Nellie Doyle of Potsdam and Rachel A. Jones of Thomasville praising the remedy and offering a medical adviser booklet for stamps.
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Potsdam
St. Lawrence Go. N.Y
Dr. Pierce
Rakin Co. Sis
Rockefeller Eyes California Gold Mines Investment Move
John D. Rockefeller plans to explore California gold mines as part of expanding ventures beyond oil. His private secretary Fulret Merritt arrived in Duluth and departed by Gates’ private car toward California to investigate promising prospects.
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Duluth
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John BD. Rockefeller
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Capers of a Dreamer Station Agent Arouses Passengers
Bernand Cohen, a day station agent at Custer City, dreamed of a collision and sprang from bed to warn others. He switched freight cars in his sleep and moved a passenger train, waking only when night man Wilson shook him. The Pullman passengers were awakened by the clattering wheels and Cohen’s improvised alarm.
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Bernand Cohen
Wilson
Cohen
Pullhan
President McKinley’s wife walks without support in Canton
In Canton Ohio on September 11 Mrs McKinley astonished relatives by walking unaided without a cane. The President said the summerVacation in Vermont restored her health and that future summers will be spent on Lake Champlain shores.
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McKinsey
Phils
Heppier
William McKinley
Vermont
Lake Champlain
Mass Convention Called To Enforce Prohibitory Law In Shawnee
By order of the Law and Order Committee of Seventeen and the Christian Citizens League of Topeka a mass meeting is set for 1 30 p m Saturday September 7 in Topeka. The aim is to discuss enforcing the prohibitory liquor law as violations rise and resistance to officers grows. Leaders EM Starl and Robt Stone urge all law and order supporters to attend ready for action.
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Christian Citizens’ League of
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Law and Order Committee
EM. Starl
Christian Citizens' League
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Stone
EGG EATERS TO MEET IN STATE CHAMPIONSHIP CHALLENGE
Sam Williford accepts William Lucas challenge for a Kentucky championship contest to be held September 18 in U P Paint Liet near the Madison Garrard boundary. Williford, a central Kentucky egg eater, boasts 22 hard pot odds and a dozen onions while Lucas hails from Berea with a similar appetite. Pools will be sold and a large crowd is expected.
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William Lucas
Richmond
Forest Fire in Tike Horn Reserve Rages Across Wyoming
Buffalo Wyoming September 1 The Tike Horn reserve blaze continues to spread aided by high winds. About twenty miles square already burned and millions of feet of timber destroyed. Settlers have fought bravely but were forced to retreat with no rain in sight and government action uncertain. Another fire is advancing across the divide in Big Horn county.
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Tike Horn
Big Horn County
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Promoted for Croup Relief
Kellam and Curren advertise Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for croup in Seaview Virginia claiming saved children and praising the product. It promotes 25 and 1 cent sizes and notes Be Cherry Cough Syrup as a cold and consumption remedy available at druggists.
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Kellam & Curren
Don’t Stop Tobacco Cure Ad Promises Relief
An old advertisement from EEREMA CHEM. ACAL MFG. CO. claims a "scientific cure" for tobacco habits, promising thousands cured where others failed. It offers four boxes guaranteed to cure and a price of 50 dollars for four boxes, with a bold guarantee and claims of proving results.
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Compact with the Devil: Killer Kelley Says He Mapped Death
New York dispatch reports Joseph Kelley, convicted of murdering Cashier Joseph A. Stickney of the Great Falls National Bank in Somersworth New Hampshire, claims a pact with the devil from age 11 to 25 dictated his crimes. He seeks a delay of execution to January 11, 1808, arguing law allows a stay after verdict. He recounts his past thefts and meetings with the devil, saying the demon urged his continued misdeeds until his 25th birthday.
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Caanler Stickney
New Hampshire
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Satan
Sterling
Massachusetts Reformatory
Reformatory
Becauxe
Great Falls
No Negro Need Apply Exposes Naval Exam Barrier
New York dispatch reports an ex naval officer and bank cashier voicing the view that a negro applicant could never qualify for Annapolis due to physical eye defects. He asserts examiners focus on eyes, claiming no negro has ever met that standard for admission.
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Bundy
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Annapoli
Constellation's Centennial Birthday in Newport Frigate's 177th Birthday
Newport observed the 177th birthday of the old frigate Constellation with a sunrise gun salute and electric illuminations. The navy arranged a grand centennial celebration at the naval station, honoring the veteran ship, which was launched in Baltimore a century ago.
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Baltimore
Navy Department
Mother’s Effort Cites Child’s Steady Recovery From Illness
A St Paul correspondent reports Mabel Stevens, once crippled by pains in limbs and nervous trouble, regained strength after nine boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills. Her mother writes that hospital and springs aids failed, but the pills, taken as directed, helped her walk to school again. The tale urges recognition of this treatment.
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Mable Stevens
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Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
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