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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1897
Page
4
Partly cloudy conditions in Chicago and Kansas on Wednesday, with variable winds and bright spells. Forecast highlights include warmer trends and neat portions of sunshine amid shifting cloud cover.
The veteran suffragist Shoobe Cousins speaks in a sharp tirade attacking women leaders and Andrea Anthony while praising some gains. She condemns public life for women and urges them to marry and become housekeepers as she cites Miss Anthony's failed campaigns in multiple states. Her remarks reflect ongoing tensions within the suffrage movement.
The Globe notes Topeka residents unite to support a festival fund raises total to Spreads of generosity as $575 gifts come in and private donations push toward a $12,500 auditorium target The community bands together and vows continued support ahead of the six month countdown to the event
A historical description of the Bull House settlement detailing the Juve Club and Phalanx social groups, the creche and kindergarten, the coffee house, job bureau, relief services, and ongoing educational and cultural activities. It covers daily routines from morning paper routes to nurse visits, child care, classes, sports, and community programs run by residents and clubs.
We have a seasonal sale offering 20 inch Striped Habutsi at 39c down from 50c and 20 inch Kaikai Silks in stripes checks and plaids at 25c. This limited time opportunity targets bargain seekers in fabrics.
The Topeka store announces the ¢th Annual Easter Kid Glove Opening with a large stock of new gloves. Foster Patent Hook Gloves are sole agents locally, offering Hook and Clasps in Black White Tan Navy Green Ox Blood Light Blue Pink Butter Beaver and more. Prices start at $1 per pair with lengths from 4 button to shoulder.
A stray, fragmented passage describes a lace curtain sale at Warren M Crosby & Co with unrelated notes on inner life and arbitration. It then discusses the Committee of Fifty on the Drink problem in Boston, detailing its role as a research body with four subcommittees Physiological legislative ethics and economic. It notes the committee is not a reform agent and quotes Charles Dudley Warner on temperance work and public opinion shaping.
April 6 in Kaneas Ofty recounts a brutal melee at the Dizay cafe opposite Ninth Street theater. Mrs Ed Findley, husband, and daughter assaulted two women, bottles shattered, as the wife restrained a rival with force and a pistol was brandished amid the fracas before the trio left by hackney.
A list of candidates for the position of superintendent of the Insane asylum in the city, naming Drs W Littiellen, Clay Stivers, Severance, P St John, E E Smith, C C Tureatla, and others, with deputies mentioned in a disrupted record.
Mason City April 6 readers attention to a claim that Dr John Watsons creed resembles an ancient Hindu reformer Rajah Ram mo tolin Hoy Promulgated 70 years ago and first rejected by Christians as Unitarian. The writer argues the creed lacks core historical verities and urges calm scrutiny.
Louis Scovel Cuban correspondent for the New York World wed Miss Frances Cabanne yesterday at the bride’s parents home. Scovel, 27, ranks as a Cleveland society leader with ties to the Union club City troop and Cotillion club. The bride is from a longstanding St Louis family. The text also hawks travel itineraries for Saath Fe Route and Island lines.
In Mobile on April 6 Joe Jefferson and his company presented Rip Van Winkle before a large crowd. Jefferson thanked the audience for a warm reception noting he first came to Mobile fifty four years ago and remarked on the familiar landmarks. He likened the city to Falling Water and said the audience showed that they would not be forgotten.
Thad Rice of Catalo and Albert Johnson of Wadsworth, both top students raised on farms, signed a formal agreement to wear overalls and flannel shirts at graduation in June. They are earnest, popular, and expect to carry out the plan.
A New York report claims two expert burglars will break into the temporary mausoleum housing General Grant’s remains within days. The casket lies inside copper, wood, iron, and armor steel layers, riveted and sealed to resist theft. A hidden blacksmith setup would be needed to melt rivets and liberate the rosewood coffin.
Burlington Wisconsin April 6 An investigation by United States customs seeks to determine the entry of Robert R a bay gelding with a 2 10 record now owned by W H Temple of Boston Mass The horse is said to have been bought in Hast Hatley Canada for 140 yet valued at 500 on the entry blank with speculation it may be worth 2000 Special agent W A Bollard has located the horse at Temple s barn in Barton and reports it to the Boston district. sale likely.
Boston reports that the Paul Revere chapter of D A B held a meeting at Mrs. John Remiek’s home. Mrs. Loring White spoke on the Continental Congress, and the group voted to place an appropriate wreath on Paul Revere’s grave in the Old Granary burying ground on Patriots Day. Mrs Crosby and Mrs Eben Howen were named to attend to the matter.
London April 6 The Westminster Gazette reports the dispute over Miss Isavella Murphy of San Francisco who died leaving about 900000 to Rev Father Smullen. He has refused the fortune and asks that a prior will distributing the money to her sisters servants and the church be accepted.
A New York syndicate forms to build a lofty sea wall from Liberty Island to Hoboken light, reclaiming miles of coast. Excavation and piling will create land for wharves and warehouses, attracting rail and steamship lines. If opposed, New York authorities may counter with competing schemes.
Col umbus reports Varney and French were hanged by wrists for three days for murder and riotous assault in a warehouse. After release they wore a heavy metal boot device described as a wearisome punishment that binds over theft without injuring the skin. The boot weighs about 15 pounds and will force prisoners to perform prison labor.
London reports that displeased sportsmen seek to cross the Atlantic and hunt the fleet of big wild horses in the Rocky Mountains. Authorities estimate over 200000 horses roam the region, seen as a nuisance. The piece contrasts this with Australia’s rabbit slaughter. Union Pacific advertises travel rates and car service to Kansas City Chicago St Louis.
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