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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
5
A period era appeal urges women with large families to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from menstrual distress and fatigue. A testimony from a Michigan mother claims the remedy enabled her to perform housework and care for eight children after doctors offered no help.
A fragmented note mentions a place called Brentonea Street and a designer phrase MAGICAL BEAUTIFTER. The readable text hints at a street clue or local landmark, with partial names and stray terms suggesting a mild puzzle or lost note in a historical page segment.
The Court of Appeals handed down decisions in eastern Kansas cases including Root versus Trapp Stonestreet versus Crandall German Insurance versus Sweet Jones versus Edson Miller versus Wilkerson and five Shawnee district matters. Four of the five confirmed and one reversed.
Memorial services were held in Cincinnati for eight Salvation Army fire victims. Officers present included Major Benjamin Wui, Colonel Frenee, and Asaen Rose. Also notes on Justin McCarthy retiring as a historian and an upcoming art exhibition planned by Dr. J.T. McFarland featuring Frederick Kappel Co. New York pieces. event details and sponsors noted.
The autumn wedding at the Episcopal church featured decorations with green chancel tones and garden colors. Relatives and friends filled the church for the ceremony conducted by Rev J D McFarland, with a Wagner solo preceding the bride and groom’s entry and Mendelssohn’s Wedding March. The bride wore a white gown with embroidery and no attendants, and the couple left by 6:45 for Olney Illinois to begin married life.
Large Crawford theater crowd witnessed the Jossey Company premiere of A Soldiers Daughter a stock play about a battlefield ward and a regiment of Prent soldiers who place a noble army bride in a lieutenant’s arms Master Carl Hibbard sang Holy City to warm recall The audience was large and appreciative despite miscasts and rehearal issues Also an advertisement urges Guivlt’s Pain Extractor as a trusted remedy for aches and bruises.
Charles Heitman proprietor of the Heitman House and two sons Louis and John clashed Wednesday afternoon. Louis suffered a severe cut to the left arm while an unrelated man, Harry Hart, was wounded in the leg by a stray bullet. Hart, who was unloading a wagon nearby, was treated at home. Police arrested the trio. bonds were set and posted. A divorce petition was filed seeking an order restraining Heitman from returning.
A stockholders meeting at Elmwood club discussed acquiring the Manspeaker home at Tenth and Harrison for club use. Plans include a heating plant and bowling alley, with a city canvass to recruit members. If sufficient names are pledged, a move will be arranged. otherwise the club may disband for the winter.
Fulton market man Howard Searies and H Searles dispute a Minneapolis report claiming a sea food monopoly could form. He argues control is impossible across the volatile, perishable market and markets cannot be cornered.
A jumble of community items from Topeka with notes on court cases, parade plans, school football teams, and local meetings. Mentions of the Webb-Branner case, Fort Leavenworth project, and a parade of road machinery on Friday. Also reports a Galveston disaster toll for Mrs Byers’s sisters and a church activity at 128 East Sixth Street with Mrs Lida Hardy Pratt speaking.
Howard testified firmly denying showing cartridges to Culton and denying any mustache concealment in the Goebel case. Witness Day placed Howard near London on January, while Senator Harker corroborated seeing Howard days before the killing. The exchange shows a tense trial with credibility on the line and pardons discussed later. Meanwhile wage talks proceeded in Cincinnati as unions and companies seek a final settlement. San Antonio population figures released show a 16 048 increase to 376 unreadable in the fragment.
F D Coburn will preside at the Good Roads congress meeting in Topeka on Tuesday the 26th with Major William Lima as vice president. The first session is in the senate chamber at 4 PM, followed by a reception. A parade of Good Roads machinery is planned for 1 PM on the 27th starting from North Topeka with traction engines and merchant wagons. Speeches by Secretary Wilson, Mr Ripley of the Santa Fe, and others will occur. Committees are named for stands, hotels, and carriages with contact details at the Topeka Paper Co.
North Topeka items include visits to Fort Worth and Boston relatives, a silk and dress goods sale upcoming Friday, and pattern data displays. Local marriages and relocations appear, along with church ladies’ fruit shower, and notes on residents traveling to Chicago, New York, and Massachusetts. The column also records the Glendenning Davis wedding, illness of Dr. S. P. Swift, and a plague report in Glasgow with transit details on the Great Rock Island Route.
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