The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-15

New York is now suffering from az
insect plague in addition to its police
force.
Jack johnson has accepted an Offer
of $50, 600 for two fights in Australia
Who wouldn't?
Now watch the fur fly. Colonel
Bryan says that Colonel Roosevelt has
made false statements knowingly.
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As far as westerners are concerned
it seems only natural that the prize
lobster should have been caught i'll the
vicinity OF New York
Poets have raved about the rare
days of June, but the real thing in
the way of an October day in this
latitude is mighty hard to beat.
Here's another record for the Roose-
welt family. Mrs. Nick Longworth has
had no less than 1,50O pairs of gloves
cleaned at one establishment in Wash
ington.
Bradstreet reports unprecedented
sales during the past week in many
lines of trade. This makes it bad for
the politicians and off1eeseekers who
pirate their way to success with hard
times for their capital.
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Hip, hip, hurrah! Topeka is again
on the football map. Washburn de-
feated the strong Denver university
team the other day, and the high
school team has all the earmarks of
being in a class by itself.
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Surely there is no end to the op-
portunities in this country whereby a
man can become rich. The owner of
a little sloop that works along the
Pacific coast is declared to have laid
aside a big fortune by smuggling
Chinese into these United States.
An exhaustive treatise has just been
issued by the bureau of animal in
dustry of the federal department of
agriculture on THE Bacteriology OF
Cheddar Cheese But how will such
a distinctive effort assist in the reduc-
ton of the cost of living, or help the
farmer on his way to higher alti-
tudes?
Chicago points with pride to the
fact that enough babies are born
within its confines during a year to
make a city of the size of Topeka as
far as numbers are concerned. But
Chicago fails to mention the fact in
this connection that enough people die
there every year to make a cemetery
of almost like proportions.
he f,,a,
unusually large this year. many of
them breaking all existing records
This means that more of the farm
ers viii take up their residences on
easy street. The back to the farm
movement should gain great impetus
because of the bumper crops of 1912
They are the best advertising that
farming could possibly receive.
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Colonel Roosevelt says the trusts
would find Governor Wilson delight
full and harmless companion"
if he is elected to the presi-
dency. That is certainly what
they found the colonel during the seven
and one-half years that he was in the
presidential Office. President Taft is
the real thorn in the side of the il
regal CoiiDAAdtAoHS OIL capital. 1nelr
opposition to him is the best evidence
of it.
Congressman Captain Richmond Pear
son Hobson will probably proceed to
demonstrate that the threatened Japa-
nese invasion of this country about
which he talks so much contemplates
the occupation or razing of Denver
shortly after it is undertaken. The
hero of Santiago Bay and many kisses
was recently snubbed by the chamber
of commerce and the university in
that town.
Following closely on the heels of
the announcement that a way has been
found to make artificial eggs of the
perfectly coed sort by grabbing the
report comes that German scientists
have succeeded in producing artificial
milk from vegetable ingredients di-
gested by machinery instead of by
COW. Artificial beef and pork should
put in an appearance before long.
Golfers Weekly is wrong again. It
refers to Arthur Capper as the Bull
Moose candidate for governor in Kan
sas. Mr.. Capper does not so claim.
He insists he is the Republican cam