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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1897
Page
6
Social items note numerous Topeka visitors and residents hosting gatherings, weddings anniversaries, and outings. The column lists names, addresses, trips to Ottawa Chicago St. Louis Kansas City and Winchester, plans for picnics, musicales, and visits, plus marriages and engagements among local families.
A fragmented OCR item suggests public fondness for a destination or event nicknamed Heck Island and Buffalo. The readable bits imply collective approval but lack clear dates, names, or concrete actions to confirm context or outcome.
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania doctors grapple with a case of Little Willie Ruthman a year old boy inflated by his brother using a bicycle pump The gas reportedly acts as a soporific with no pistoning evidence Weighting him in a cradle was tried to prevent buoyant danger The incident occurred Monday afternoon with mother Aire Ruthman distressed by the event
Governor John W. Leedy issues Kansas Labor Day proclamation urging citizens to suspend business on Monday September 6 1897 and assemble to honor wage workers as mandated by the legislature. The text emphasizes respect for labor and the state’s achievement reared on toil and aspiration.
Portland Aug. 1 Maine veterans of the First Tenth and Twenty-ninth regiments held a Long Island reunion denouncing Reed for pension examiner Day’s ouster. They condemn Reed’s campaign politics and demand Day’s reinstatement, sending a remonstrance to President McKinley and naming Reed’s secretary Amos L. Allen a “pot house politician.”
Mr RJ Parker superintendent of the middle division writes that Santa Fe men at Newton will place two floats in the parade and Moats will be sent from other points in the division. He states the majority of middle division employees will come to Topeka on Santa Fe day.
N Rubey distributed advertising in all of Wabaunsee County on Saturday for the Topeka Fall Festival to be held September 27 through October. Alma welcomed the effort but did not need the advertising. Last year’s success spurred ongoing promotion across the county.
An undated snippet cites David Overmyer to contribute a September Arena article responding to a February forum by ex Senator David Bil of New York. A critic calls Overmyer’s piece a complete crushing answer, defending the Chicago platform and independence, praising it as a fervent appeal for humane action.
ES Brigham returns from New York with 39 contracts for Topeka's Grand Opera House for 1897-98. Notable attractions include Frohman plays Under the Red Robe and The Mysterious Mr Bugle, Hoyt's Secret Service, A Black Sheep, A Contented Woman, and The Prisoner of Zenda. Season opens September 21 with Herrmann Company. many stars and companies booked for Topeka's winter theatre lineup.
A fragmentary note reports a plan to move a place labeled as Rowk island to Bollalo. The text lacks clear names, dates, or context, rendering full verification difficult.
The narrator recalls a daring midnight escape by stealing Mollie and her lovers from Columbia. Mollie’s father opposed their relationship, leading to a plan to ride an engine along a dark, dangerous route. They outrun Jim and Mollie’s father by halting on a sidetrack and slipping away, while Mollie and Jack wed with a preacher present. Jim ends up suspended after pursuing the couple to Charlotte.
A survey of unusual wills cites a Frenchman disinheriting France and aiding London’s poor with a sea burial, another gifting daily tomb cookery, and a lawyer leaving 50000 to a lunatic asylum as restitution. It notes an Englishman barring heirs lacking angelic virtue and a Finnish act to name the devil as heir, prompting state seizure. Cortes era musketeers and a dentist near Crosby’s round out the curious misfits.
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