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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
12
Local piano dealer A. J. King Plano Co at 505 Kansas Avenue offers two high grade Sohmer and Bradbury pianos on hand and promises very close prices or stock reductions in the last two weeks of August. No agents or self playing pianos, emphasis on plain goods and lower prices to benefit customers.
A garbled, OCR heavy page records a mix of local happenings. Mentions include speeches by J Burten and Ruveciner Staniey, a gathering at Vinewood, a school event schedule, a bakery in Kansan district, a birth announced for a J. Hankin daughter, and a funeral for John J. Ingalls. The text shows arrests, public notices, and scattered community notes with numerous garbled names and places.
April occupancy possible for Pleara building as Topeka plans share of delegates to G A R encampment in Chicago. WCTC annual meeting to be held Monday at 3 pm at First Methodist church. Local business notes include gravery services, transfer station scrolls, and three story Gage Street project near Stormont hospital. Weather and heat reports include Dickinson County as a hot spot. Nellie McKirahan treated after heat near National hotel.
Aged 75, Major A B Mortimer, once wealthy in the cotton business and a Confederate veteran, died at his Canadian home after morphine overdose. He had moved from Texas amid a turbulent life. an old advertisement on page 6 mentions a price of 160 per ton.
Leslie F Randolph leads Kansas Pan American commission in shaping a creditable state exhibit for the Buffalo exposition. Governor Branley calls a meeting in his office to form a permanent organization and outline work. A R Taylor of Topeka State Normal School and two women from Topeka and Newton join as officers.
A Kansas exposition committee reorganized naming Leslie Randolph president, J R Junkin secretary, and C A Mitchell treasurer. The group, buoyed by officials from the exposition, vows vigorous work to secure proper Kansas representation and funding, with praise for Randolph and Justin and optimism about winning gold at the fair.
Real estate transfers include K White to Mattie Oden for lots 73-76 in Arlington Meadows, Amy Stanley to A L Stanley for lots 2-4 on Spruce Street in Rossville, Summer B to Margaret F McFadden for part of a quarter in TL, Bryson W James F Bell for lots 68 and north half 66 in Ritchie’s addition, August Rahberg for lots 40 and 42 Evans Street in Glendale Potwin place, Andrew Tanne to M E and M. Nason for lots 15-17 and 19 Spruce Street AI Brusstey 46-A, Amy intey to A S Stanley for lot 8 Spruce Street in Bonaville, and Geo W Dunseth et al trustees to F A Morand for part southeast quarter Pig-13, with coal price per ton referenced.
Ladies of Lowman chapel hosted a Wednesday gathering at Mrs Hanna s home, honoring Mrs Johnson of Galveston with a long list of attendees. The column records numerous visitors and brief travel plans across Topeka including departures to Peoria and California trips, guests from Newton and Leavenworth, and several social engagements and routings.
An ad style fragment asserts sea voyage or mountain air as relief for chronic coughs and consumption. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as purifying blood and strengthening organs, with patient testimonials and a medically themed sales pitch for free medical advice and mail order books from Buffalo, New York.
Uves and friends return with sister Min oi as she accompanies them home from a summer stay. Miss Selma Johnson resumes her routine after a several weeks visit in Iowa. Edmund K. Plamondon and his daughter Marie of Chicago visit his parents at 1114 Quincy street. John Moyle of Shennandgoak visits relatives in Topeka. Miss Mary Rose LeBean of Chicago visits her uncle and aunt at 114 Quincy street.
Editor Frank Peltret of the sigonet reports that D Peltret helped move a Sedewick county Populist convention resolution urging TP Campbell and Cide Duval to resign so new conventions could unite one candidate for Congress in the Seventh district. He denies Jerry Simpson’s involvement and says Simpson would not seek the seat, predicting a Hutchinson meeting on August 21 to settle the field against Long.
Biddeford Maine August 18 All Pepperell Manufacturing cotton mills in Biddeford and York cotton mills in Saco shut down today until September 4 leaving about five thousand operatives out of work. The cause is reduced demand from curtailment of exports due to Chinese troubles.
A Katy bridge near Bufeuls collapsed in a nighttime fire, aiming to derail a northbound passenger train. The train was checked just in time to avoid plunging into the river, and authorities probe the blaze as a possible deliberate act.
At daylight the Lake Superior blockade caused by the Maida wreck in St Marys river was lifted. The deep water channel was cleared leaving space for deep laden ships to pass. About 200 vessels staggered by the stoppage began moving, with expectations all feet will be cleared by night. The blockade lasted about eighty hours and losses to shipping run around 200,000 dollars. Austrian foreign office says Dr. von Rosthorn was slightly wounded in Pekin.
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