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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1901
Page
6
A Topeka social excerpt lists weddings, birthdays, club meetings and visits. It notes guests and hosts across Trier Street, Sixth Avenue, and West Sixth, with arrivals from Chicago, Kansas City, Newton, and California. Numerous clubs host events at homes and halls, while members travel for family and ceremonial duties.
Catalog of lace and Brussels net curtains with Nottingham and tapestry lines. Specials include Nottingham curtains at under 1 dollar, Brussels net pieces discounted from five to eight dollars, tapestry curtains from around 1.75 to 6.50, and new silk wool jute coverings. Many entries show actual values alongside marked sale prices.
The display lists silk skirts wool skirts tailored suits waists silk jackets and camonas and dressing lacques in silk and cotton. Featured pieces include extra taffeta silk skirt with six rows of ruffling and Albatross shirt waists with extensive tucking in blue pink red and other colors. Also advertised is extra all wool pebble cheviot shirt with seven gores and satin bands priced at 7.50, now 86.00.
Auction note lists silk jackets with unusual values priced at 8.75, 10, 13.75, and 15 dollars. Also mentions a wool mix Hton Jacket with five gore Hounce skirt details, silk lining, value cited as 5.00, with sale “here tomorrow” at price 810.00.
Read the placards on the table for dress goods at half price. Selection includes $1.00, $1.25, and $1.39 dress fabrics, plaid waistings, silks, and suit patterns. Yardage and fabric bundles offered at reduced rates, with conspicuous savings highlighted.
A shipment of new umbrellas with silver trimmed imitation ivory handles arrives. Priced at 2.50, discounted to 1.98, with many sold at 3.50 previously. Handkerchiefs offered in colored bordered styles at 50 cents each or 2.50 a dozen, sold by half dozen or dozen amounts.
Local shop advertises all silk fancy ribbons including No 40 and silk taffeta at 19 and 17 cents per yard. Shades shown and priced on center table with placards, highlighting value and new stock.
Washington April 1 The state department reports Baron Fava’s successor as Italian ambassador to the United States will be Marquis Oblive Mullypina di Carbonara former minister to the Argentine republic He will become ambassador elevating from minister to ambassador at about age 65 He began his career in Trieste and served in Berne The Hague Constantinople Roumania and Buenos Aires He arrives in Washington after ten years as Italian attach and twenty years of continuous service He was dean of the diplomatic corps during Blaine years and experienced strains over Trulia and Philadelphia cases Meanwhile tariff disputes under the 1853 act involved hats and dress goods with mixed court outcomes and refunds expected to be small
Washington April 15 dispatch from Philadelphia says the famous hat trimmings case was settled with the importers facing a reduced claim near 320,000,000. Assistant Secretary Spaulding indicated settlement in progress and that relief to importers may be forthcoming though timing and terms were unclear.
In North Topeka a column of notices lists deliveries at Kimball Printing and local business ads. Readers report visits from Silver Lake resident Charles Cooper, Mrs Brown at St John and Jackson, Addie Parker from Kansas City visiting friends, Myrtle Palmer taking a position at Costley and Post, and Kent Raub visiting family in Calwell. Mrs Martin and daughter Nolte Martin return from visit, Frank Russell recuperating from pneumonia, and E B Crocker preparing to return home after estate matters.
Advertisement fragment lists Tabouretts in oak or mahogany and Roman Stools in oak and velour SCORER. It mentions Sonice cae Go-Carts Rechaine Go-Carts with approved patterns, front and back operations separately, value $6.50, priced at $4.98.
Tomorrow we offer twenty five dozen Ladies Fancy Hosiery at about 0c per pair, marked special. Also fifteen dozen Lisle Fancy Hose shown first time, value 75c, marked 35c. Sale features limited quantities and reduced prices on these hosiery items.
Fifty dozen hemstitched all linen men’s handkerchiefs offered at 16 cents per dozen, value 15 cents each, marked as a special bargain.
A Jet store advertises a sale on men’s socks with about twelve dozen in stock and a large variety of patterns. Previously sold at 50c a pair, they are offered tomorrow at 35c per pair or three pairs for $1.00.
The Easter anthem Christ Our Passover In Sacrifices was sung by the choir. At seven thirty in the evening Watron's orchestra provided the prelude and offertory. Canon Bywater preached at both services stressing the resurrection.
W A Snyder assistant foreman at the State Printing office will move to Victor Colorado on Thursday to accept a new position. Snyder has served eighteen years in the state printing office, fourteen as assistant foreman.
John Spong, 64, of near Oakland, was arrested yesterday on a charge of being drunk and disturbing his family's peace. Police responded to a report of a night scene as he drank whisky and became abusive toward his wife and children, later being taken to jail.
A North Topeka hardware store on North Kansas Avenue was burglarized in the post se mantia era. Entry was gained by forcing a back door window. cash was untouched but drawer contents included wallets razors and tools. Police reported the incident to the Moore Bardners company at 902 North Kansas Avenue with no injuries.
Stephen Hall husband of Lole Teift has started an automobile livery stable in Los Angeles California. He invested $12,000 and plans to capitalize on the booming motor era. The couple recently relocated after the death of Mrs Teift and aim to attract patrons with reliable rides and famed drivers.
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