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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1901
Page
8
In our Dry Goods Department daily arrivals bring up to date merchandise. Budget shoppers are urged to shop early for wide selections including stainless sheeting, ginghams, percale, and tablecloths with new moods and colors.
A brief notice advertising men s half hose available in black blue red and gray, with 160 quality indicated and conformance to a catalog style description.
In our Shoe Department spring footwear eclipses prior seasons with medium and fine shoes at bedrock prices. Five large stores enable bold buys like Velour Gate s and Patent Kid styles. Men’s, women’s, boys’ and little gents shoes range from $1.35 to $5.00, with guarantees and a broad, budget friendly selection.
We have received two large consignments of wallpaper patterns and offer five center rolls. Our store previously sold out and now has no old paper on display. Prospective builders should inspect our range of Quite and tools including saws hammers planes bits and hinges. We warrant the tools and guarantee satisfaction.
A Kansas newspaper recalls an early case of a woman wrecking saloons and stores in the 1870s, noting Mrs Nattep and Mrs Busick among those publicized. The report places the events in Lincoln and nearby counties, with variations in dates and details across accounts. It references an axe attack on a drug store managed by R. Bryant in May or June and notes broader historical context of female destruction in Kansas.
An escaped convict William A. Perry alias George Weeks, age 52, from Huntsville Texas, was arrested in Yorkville for passing a worthless check on Mrs Annie de of this city. Detective Sergeant Mahoney reported at arraignment before Magistrate Zeiler, with Perry noting prior escapes and multiple marriages. Ball set at 1000 dollars for examination on Tuesday as the case proceeds.
The readable passages discuss a stamp duty question and notary public duties amid references to court and state offices. It mentions cartage charges on California fruit at New York docks and a fruit display controversy, plus a probate matter involving Albert T. Patrick and the Rice Institute.
Tom Frost, son of John B. Frost, witnessed a strange Mexican ritual described as Mystifying. The crowd gathered as stores closed and people moved between marchers, with crude effigies of Judas and a scene of smoke and fire shaping a dramatic, unsettling event.
A regional Masonic gathering, the twenty first century centennial reunion, is planned in Wichita this week. Between fifty and seventy five Scottish Rite Masons from Toledo and nearby areas will travel to the valley’s capital for the event. T. W. Harrison, deputy for the Supreme Council for Transus, along with William Shaver and Albert K. Wilson of Tobeka are listed as participants.
Historic ad copy touts big reductions on iron beds and furniture in a bold sales push. It highlights numerous bed frames, mirrors, rockers, and fabrics with discounted prices and special lines, urging economical shoppers to compare and buy here.
A garbled list of hardware and miscellaneous goods appears, mentioning screw taps extensions, shelves, fabric colors, and various nonsensical phrases. The readable portions reference items like goats and names, but the source is largely indecipherable.
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