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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1900
Page
8
Advertises Ivory Soap as affordable and fully satisfactory for many uses, claiming it can substitute for half a dozen specialty soaps. Emphasizes the product is claimed to be 90 percent pure and within reach of all shoppers.
New York Sept 2 The Iron markets remain uncertain with reports of activity and idle works. A Pittsburg mill plans a double turn while others idle for over two months. The Avexiation scale issue persists and April revival is anticipated as mines shut down late spring and summer. Dealers eye a major central consolidation proposal and potential plant closures in the Chicago district.
Sept. 19 Chicase discussion centers on sealing a twenty two foot channel through the Inner Mississippi to form a water route for ocean steamers. Proposed by United states Hane Glover James A Sedion builds on a reservoir plan with dykes to store annual dredging funds of 250,000 dollars and a water reservoir of 32 units. Likely federal action uncertain.
Newspaper correspondent P Leroy becomes the first to complete the Dawson to Skagway bicycle voyage amid heavy snow. The ten to twelve day journey was hampered by storms and stomach trouble from poor food, with notes on frost and old fatigue.
A proposed project seeks to create a channel in the lower Mississippi to regulate water flow during floods and aid navigation. Details on agency, funding, and construction timeline are not specified in the fragments available.
A large amount of smuggled goods from Tien Tsin is to be seized, with about sixty percent duty assessed on value. Much of the cargo, brought by a hospital ship, will be confiscated as the government claims the articles. Some cases may be sacrificed to individuals in the country.
Helena Mont Sept 20 The Democratic state convention last night split after the Daly delegation from Butte seized seats assigned to the Clark delegation, resisting removal until a formal motion was made. The credentium committee favored seating Clark, adopted by 63 to . The convention adjourned with factions and a platform urging free silver and federal action, while criticisms and party divisions surfaced.
Boston dispatch reports former Governor Roger Wolcott will not accept President McKinley s offer to be Ambassador to Italy. He informed the State Department by cable from Europe and by letter. The ceremony details recount a Servian royal wedding with ancient customs and symbolic rites.
Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan drew about 10 000 people to a baseball park in St Joseph Missouri where he criticized trusts taxes and the Philippines policy. He rode in a carriage drawn by horses and warned farmers about barbed wire trusts while challenging McKinley on foreign policy and divine sanction debates.
New York on September 20. Joseph MacGuigan is jailed for allegedly killing his wife Mary by throwing her from the third story window of their Second Avenue flat. A wake followed, with accounts from Mrs Gormley and a daughter. The fall broke the woman’s neck.
Topeka music lovers will hear the Kansas City Symphony orchestra in a Tuesday evening concert and a later performance. Conductor Adelmann leads the program featuring Frang Adelmann, a renowned violinist invited to lead the Topeka event and dedicate the new convention hall.
At a funeral outside the city a shocked guest triggers a secret music box in a family album. A clicking mechanism starts the ragtime tune Dire, and despite attempts to stop it, the melody plays to the amusement and restraint of mourners as the minister resumes the service.
Vancouver report quotes Lieutenant Hobson in a local interview claiming Admiral Dewey did not sink the Spanish ships at Manila. Hobson says Spaniards opened valves and scuttled their own ships, while our shelling caused little damage.
The America Turf Congress adjourned after an all night session at 10 am. A rule giving southern tracks 50 percent of time passed 7 to 3 amid protests from Chicago St Louis and New Orleans delegates. Several members, including James Howard of Washington Park and Mattie Nathanson of Chicago, prepared to readdress the plan this morning.
A Kansas City reader from 900 Malin Street praises Peruna. She credits the medicine with curing catarrh and female complaints after consulting doctors and reading Dr Hartman’s guidance. Misplaced lines reference systemic catarrh and seasonal notes.
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