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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1901
Page
7
In Wichita and Topeka a preacher leads a temperance gathering amid reports of feuding and raids involving local groups. Attendees debate licensing, police action, and government role in liquor control as tensions rise.
Readers are invited to submit letters sharing experiences with coffee substitutes, particularly Postum, and to propose methods for preparing it. The ad asks for honest, plain testimonials, suggestions, and the names of friends to receive sample boxes, with prizes for best essays and a promotional mail campaign planned during the period.
A preacher denounces liquor traffic as enemy of work and fair merchants while urging civic action. He cites merchants listing country agents on books for cash in saloon towns and notes opposition to renting Central Christian Church space for meetings. An effort to secure a room and table space is announced amid strict meeting preparations.
Mayor J. W. F. Roger issues a proclamation ordering all stores closed after noon on Thursday September 14 to observe memorial services for the late President William McKinley. Citizens are urged to assemble at 2 PM at the central pavilion to honor the national tragedy and mourn with the nation.
Lawrence Kansas reports the EK UW football schedule including Oct 12 Ottawa, Nov 4 Vanderbilt, Nov 1 Washburn, Oct 19 Washburn College Topeka, Oct 28 Beloit, and Missouri Kansas City. The list shows second elevens and multiple colleges across several dates in September through November.
Ernest G Miller leading a group from Chicago seeks 50000 acres along the Platte near Fort Laramie to irrigate sugar beets. A 40 acre allotment plan includes a canal 40 feet wide and 4 feet deep fed from the river to supply the colony. A sugar factory for 3000 tons is planned and the Burlington rail line serves the site. In Kentucky a publishing clerk J E Badger was shot by a Black man at South Gate. Badger died. The assailant fled.
Victim Charles Boeckman died today from injuries suffered last Saturday during a football game in Thicnco. Police search for the young man who played with Boeckman. James S G Batterton, president of the Travelers' Dead, Hartford, died at his home.
Readable snippets show public schools opening with 5 565 children en route, Washburn football practice, new principal shifts and a planned memorial service for President McKinley. Various local figures visit, construction updates on school buildings appear, and theater and sports events populate the week.
Constantinople dispatch reports a ministerial circular fearing a European alliance against the sultan. It calls for tranquility and justice for all creeds, with disturbances to be suppressed locally without outside help. The note signals rising regional tension and a push for internal stability.
The speaker recalls the Lincoln assassination era, describing the Corner Stock Company at Ford's Theatre. Mrs Evans and her husband J L Evans narrate the night of the shot, the shock on actors, arrests of company members, and the survival status of cast: two women and four men remain, with Kennedy and Ferguson still acting.
Shanghai dispatch reports Viceroy Chang Chih Tung petitioning the emperor for permission to meet the court at Ke Yeng Sheng where the memorial is also said to go. Li Hung Sapa and Viceroy Liu Kung are said to petition for retirement to private life, a move likely triggered by fear and weariness with Shanghai life.
New York on September 18 declares national mourning for McKinley. In Greater New York half a million school children will hear life of the late president through addresses in their schools at 1 pm. Hymns Nearer My God to Thee and Lead Kindly Light will be sung. National Guard salutes are planned at sunrise and sunset.
Topeka police officers Kent Raith and Del Sterpoon investigated Harrison High School after reports of haunting. A second tour Monday night with Chief Stabi e s force followed, as witnesses described eerie noises and unexplained movement while officers searched hallways and stairs for human causes behind the specter.
Mr. Jon A. Thomas of 18 Ash Street, a gardener, suffered kidney and bladder troubles for ten years with fatigue and back pain. After using Doan's Kidney Pills for two years, he reports relief from back pain and steadier kidney secretions, noting a second purchase after renewed symptoms.
Fragmentary text describes officers moving through a crowd or scene with mentions of date, steps sealed, and a distraction or incident. The passage references a muster or expedition with unclear actions and several named terms, ending with a garbled description of a possible site or event.
An informal Chicago Tribune text recalls Bret Harte and the idea of his return to the U S West. A tale from a Sierra community of a minister who officiated a funeral with blunt blunt sermon ends, and the narrator thinks Harte would have enjoyed the rustic humor.
Fragmentary note lists herbs and compounds including celer root hops dandelion mandrake and other ingredients. Mentions use for remedies across conditions and affected groups such as children and women, with unclear instructions and origins.
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