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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1903
Page
2
A chaotic courthouse item recounts a man traveling for health, its effect on a posse, a jail stay for two youths, and a description of a chase near the fair. The piece notes a suspect carrying a concealed weapon and a judge’s lenient fine, with ongoing local crime observations and a late-night house fire report.
Fragmentary OCR style lines describe a sick woman and reference a doctor and a medicine. The readable parts suggest health concerns and a possible remedy but lack coherent events or names to confirm a main outcome. The piece reads as a damaged health column fragment with speculative details.
New York reports Rev John Teudder as pastor of First National Church planning a $7,000,000 Peoples Palace in Jersey City. The project offers classes for men, women and children, an armory, rifle range, a three gymnasium, assembly hall for 130, and a roof garden. A Millet canvas bought for Taft and destined for Cincinnati accompanies the collection.
Paul Minn eens J Hodgeson president of the Security Trust Company and longtime resident of St Paul died after several months illness.
Counsel for George W. Beavers announced after an adjourned hearing that he must appear before Commissioner Hitchcock immediately to answer two additional complaints linked to recent Washington indictments charging a conspiracy to defraud the government. The Beavers case also involves State Senator George E. Green and the Bundy-Time stock company of Binghamton, with a demand that securities beyond J Brows and two five thousand dollar bonds be produced, as district attorney practice limits the same surety on more than two bonds.
Whitmore of the Stereotypers and Electra typers union says his opposition to the Central Labor union resolutions to President Roosevelt in the Miller case was personal and not union representational. He protested verbally at the executive council meeting, but AFL President Gompers refused to discuss the case. Whitmore asserts his union will not be drawn into the controversy as the Federation of Labor executive council resumes its season.
Chicago scene sparked by Chester N Mardens and a National Marble Dealers' association member joining union workers in resuming work today after a lockout. Sub contract for the First National bank building previously tied to Vermont Marble Company. Roosevelt notes follow a separate Sunday horseback ride at Oyster Bay with Mrs Roosevelt enjoying fine weather on the south side of the island.
Fragmentary text appears to be a garbled repeated brand name passage with no clear event person place or date. No coherent action, names, or organizations are present to anchor a news item.
McPherson resident Fanatey was jailed after $197 stolen from McPherson Lumber was traced to his trunk and clothing. A search uncovered $140 concealed in his trousers, plus a supply of tools later identified by owners.
Chicago sept 22 a Russian decree of divorce was upheld as valid by judge gibbons of the circuit court max graber a russian hebrew married 19 years to sarah graber after immigration and a dispute over ante nuptial settlement he remarried the first wife later charged with digamy the verdict was guilty but sentence suspended the case tested the get decree validity and was sustained in absence of fraud the decree is recognized by us courts meanwhile a census shows cotton ginned to date with total commercial bales 17 587 including 16 981 square balers 70 round bales and 26 bales of sew island crop the number of gins in operation was 2 176
Fragmentary OCR hints at ticket shares and returns for a Chicago to Ford route. Mentions September 38 and October, with figures 14.00 and 3 percent final return. Lacks coherent entities or events.
Niagara Falls September 22 Farmers National Congress opens its twenty third annual session with Governor Odell delivering an address praising government support for farming, citizen development, and lawfulness while urging leaders to use influence to improve conditions and combat inaction among classes and to aid the unprivileged. Two killed by foul air at Buena Vista Colorado during mine inspection and a Philadelphia woman received a two year sentence for postal money order fraud.
The piece discusses Italian women of the era using smooth knotted work to reproduce southern brocade designs on dark silk for waistcoats jackets and capes. It notes two straight or slanting lines of long slits on gowns, ragged edges, and lavish yet flawed decorations from painters and embroiderers, reflecting period dress and its imperfections. It also touches on the ship purser’s busy, worldly role and a Paris portrait lawsuit linked to English art in the era.
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