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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1897
Page
6
We offer traveller’s sample leather items for sale Saturday morning at half their actual value. Ladies’ Pocket Books with Sterling Silver corners priced 35c to $1.63, writing tablets in alligator, seal, elephant hide and monkey skin, various leathers, all at half price.
Leon Mangenet triple extracts offered at 10 cents per ounce for Saturday only, excellent perfume valued at 25 euros. Bring your bottles as bottles are not provided at this price.
Specials in Underwear and Hosiery list items with consumer prices. Men’s Bal briggen Sac a suit and shirts with French neck and silk trim offered at 50c regular, 5c ribbed underwear, 17c ladies tan hose, 12c children’s hose, and heavy all silk mitts at 17c or 25c values.
Topeka society notes list visits and travels of residents and guests including Mrs A J Kitts of Ottawa visiting daughter Mrs Will Trump, Mr and Mrs C Sutton returning to Chicago, and many others heading to Kansas City Colorado Springs Denver and Chicago for visits and trips. A moonlit picnic near Calhoun Bluffs is noted along with several small gatherings and home visits by local families and visitors from Ottawa, Ottawa area, and other nearby towns.
The fragmentary item references a group action or passage described as The Comrades liking it and taking something. It mentions Shit Beck Island and Bugelo in a possibly nautical or territorial context. Names and places appear without clear roles or dates.
North Topeka column records varied town chatter. notes include photographs for sale at Courtney’s, lost bay colt on Kansas avenue, multiple shifts of residents moving addresses, visits by Guy Cannon to Kansas City, and forthcoming sales at Costley and Post’s with August 14 and 16 dates. Also mentions local events, church address, and social gatherings at homes on Van Buren and Gordon streets.
Mr. Charles Pollock of Stafford Kan underwent an appendectomy at Stormont hospital after an illness with appendicitis. The article details the morning operation, ether anesthesia, surgical steps, removal of an inflamed appendix, and expected recovery. It emphasizes hospital treatment and the progress of the procedure.
Starvation cases have risen in Prosperity New York with deaths and hospitalizations. Nathan Hampel and family were found at their August 10 home weak from starvation. Mamie McCarthy died August 6 in Brooklyn. John George Crook was found August after three days without food with eight dollars in checks. Fred Harper, 15, died after August 9 hospital transfer. Jacques Robert collapsed at Ninth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street and is in the hospital of the French Benevolent society.
A masked mob from Jusset Gulch broke into Central City jail by rear door, demanded keys, and held four prisoners suspected in the murder of American miner Alex Goddard. They fired through bars, but prisoners hid behind mattresses and escaped harm. Four leaders arrested. strong guard posted. more trouble feared.
A northbound Katy train derailed near Caddo Mills Texas about midnight. Baggageman W B Rollins was killed and three passengers were injured. Rails displaced, motive unclear, whether robbery or other cause. G W Stansfield Kansas Ave ad ends with a medicine plug.
An elderly woman, 66, from Kansas City, enters Santa Fe depot at Topeka at 5 AM and asks for a street car to downtown. After several transfers and misdirections, she is escorted to the police station and later sent back to Kansas City. She had been in western Kansas for a relative’s funeral.
Mrs CS Baker calls all Topeka children to Hamilton hall next Tuesday at nine to discuss Festival week Children s Day exercises in Capitol Square. divisions of 50 with white and blue caps and festival sashes will bear small American flags and floral designs for the queen s procession.
Fragmentary note indicates Uroxen cage collars produced by Peerless Steam Laundry. No clear date or location. Further readable details are limited.
Fire alarm key locations listed across Topeka area streets including Morse Jackson Gordon Taylor Laurent Harrison Kansas Fourth Topeka avenues and several cross streets. Partial entries mix street names with garbled text but indicate station sites and surrounding avenues for dispatch.
Market notes show wheat opening down and weak abroad, with limited export sales at outports. Corn and oats posted strength while hogs and cattle receipts rose, prices mixed but generally higher for many futures. mixed shipments and revisions noted across Chicago, Minneapolis, and Duluth.
Kansas City market prices and weekly grocery list with items like coffee tea sugar and fruit jars. Includes wheat corn hay butter flour and assorted extracts, coffees and canned goods with price notes and mail order note. Also mentions delivery to depot and prompt mail orders.
Market notes from Topeka and nearby ports describe grain futures and livestock outlook. Occluded figures show mixed futures with wheat and corn prices easing versus prior periods, while exports totals and port shipments are cited for several commodities.
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