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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1895
Page
6
Fashion notes describe summer garments, blouses, ribbons, and trims influencing outfits amid sunshower conditions. Ribbons, belts, collars, and epaulets create contrasts, while Empire sashes and broad hats shape the season’s silhouette with open coats and tall collars dominating the latest looks.
In Topeka society circles the week was remarkably quiet with few gatherings. Notable items include Miss Edith Mountain of Chicago visiting. Miss Norma Smith hosting a party. multiple social calls. dances planned by Oxford youths at Vinewood and Buogler’s circle. several families traveling or returning from excursions. engagements and marriages noted. and a flurry of card parties, teas, and visits among locals, friends, and relatives.
The article notes corsets are becoming lower and resemble broad belts, offering practicality for women who ride. Bathing suits are mostly serge with alpaca and silk also used. The favored outfit combines a nice varsca, a hand skirt, knickerbockers, and a blouse waist.
The soprano voice is divided into three classes the leggi ero mezzo and dramatic. The light soprano offers high compass but limited dramatic use the mezzo dello mezzo mezzo enables both light and heavy music and the dramatic soprano masters deep emotion and sustained religious music. A caution against forcing extreme notes preserves voice quality.
A recipe describes sieving peaches with sugar and stiff egg whites to make a light souffle, baked briefly before serving and dusted with sugar. It also discusses canning pineapples, noting fruit tolerates heating, with sugar quantity and steps to melt sugar before filling jars and scalding.
Jewelers offer a wide range of collar necklaces suitable for the throat line and featuring opal pendants set with diamonds. Pearls remain a timeless ornament, with seed pearl strands and diamond bars enhancing slender necks. Fly pins linked by a pearl chain provide versatile wear in hair or bodice.
Indiana bituminous coal miners suspend work for over a month and win. operators agree to pay last year’s price of 60 cents. Some operators had threatened 51 cents and tried to organize a fight, but the effort failed. Payments at 60 cents will last only while coal remains on that basin. This marks the first time in years a strike closed without a statewide contract for the rest of the year.
A Union Pacific Sunday excursion to Kansas City offers a $100 round trip. Information lists Hayden as secretary and notes a new store at 727 Kasave. The Daily Star subscription is encouraged.
Carl Wood returns from Chicago after studying music. Diphtheria reported in Engineer Bealock’s family at the Inter Ocean mine. Will Sargent leaves for Winona Avon after visiting his brother on Clay street. Breidenthal, state bank commissioner, to return from Wyoming Monday. Judge Geo W Clark already back. Weather observer T B Jennings in Council Grove Kaw will stay until Monday. Dr J K Fay leaves for New York for a ninety page post graduate course. County Superintendent Wright buys an eight room residence at 522 Lincoln, price 2625 dollars. Simon Jones’s charge reduced to assault and battery. fined 50 dollars plus 78 in costs. A farmer’s wagon at the watering trough near Hamilton ball disturbs horses, veggies scatter on Quincy and lower Kansas. Daughters of Erin host ice cream social at Mrs Hugh Brady’s lawn. Kraemer mandolin club provides music. receipts reach 25 dollars. Rev George Sheafer of Sandwich Illinois to preach at First Baptist tomorrow Morning on Hope and Evening on Life. Joshua Burch, colored, slaps a woman. Lucas and Wellman intervene. This morning in police court Acting Police Judge Furry fines him 1 dollar.
New York life is depicted in scenery of Bowery Mulberry Bend and Hudson saloons. John G Buss painted the stage visuals for Adames Bascom s Bowery characters in a melodrama with up to date songs dances and music. Soubrette Clara Thropp will sing popular numbers during the play. Denver artesian well to 2500 feet planned two miles east of Holyoke Phillips county with 5000 state funding. voters consider the experiment.
Joe Johnston, a colored man with a hard reputation, is jailed awaiting Kansas City officers for robbery. Attie Johnston is held as a suspected accomplice after living with him. Mattie Johnson wrote to the Storm JorgSat accusing police of injustice amid unclear claims. Daniel Miller from Toledo, Ohio, arrived to cultivate Shawnee County land, buying 30 acres near Pauline and plans an eight room house.
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters for the aged needing medicine to aid bowels and kidneys with no whiskey content. It claims mild stomach action, toning organs, and natural function support. Priced at fifty cents a bottle at J E Jones drug store. Also notes on horses for sale, Lady waist tailoring, and the Peerless Steam Laundry.
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