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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1897
Page
8
The 1895 law prompts open air playgrounds in crowded areas where new schoolhouses rise. Plans include 19,000 square feet on the roof, wind protection with walls rising 16 feet, and top wire netting. Safety features, stairway shielding, and tron framework planned. cost expected under $4,000.
London reports two recent assaults where hatpins worn by women caused injuries in crowded transport. One rider was struck in the eye by a pin while seated, another girl was blinded by a pin in a train car. Authorities note rising concern over the dangerous fashion trend and public safety.
Swayze, secretary, calls for sealed bids for fifteen items including twelve cords of dry hard wood and fifty tons of wheat straw to be delivered to Topeka fair grounds. Bids may cover wood, straw, or both. committee reserves right to reject any or all bids.
Read as a satirical account, Eugene F Ware’s Topeka Commercial Club banquet address is repurposed in beer case pamphlets to counter prohibition. The Topeka speech mocks law, luxury, and civic pride while predicting economic and social fallout if alcohol returns, urging buyers to fund the town with cold beer.
City leaders discuss allowing five saloonkeepers to operate under strict bonds and license terms as part of a phased return to beer and pretzels for a 10,000 population area projecting one million dollars in local investment. The plan includes prohibitions on minors intoxicated patrons gambling and political entanglement.
Chicago Aug 23 Philip Armour returns from Europe where he predicts a tariff driven recovery for U S business He says the new tariff benefits American interests and will force Germany France to drop trade barriers He forecasts wheat moving to 1 05 a bushel and cereals selling higher as Europe needs American supplies while corn oats and provisions rise with wheat
Light Rock Aug 25 reports new pearl discoveries across Arkansas as thousands search rivers and creeks near Little Rock and Fourche for gems valued up to $800. A Gazette staffer notes seven streams in the state host pearl-rich sands and surveys claim thousands were found on White river in 1893. Pearls range from 9 to 50 grains, with a saline rose color and first class texture. locals flock to Saline, Walte and other waters.
The North American Transportation and Trading Co plans at least seven more Yukon river steamers by navigation opening next June. The first new vessel is John C. Barr formerly Valley City Toledo. Capt. E D Comings says it will be ready to carry spring passengers when the ice breaks up. Barr carries about 200 passengers and 400 tons of freight.
Sally Toler, raised on the Toler stock farm by H. G. Toler, has won five straight heats this season with times from 2 08 1 to 2 71 44, a record deemed seldom equalled. Also notes on Adrian Anson预测, Arkansas cycling events in Arkansas City, and local fair results including trot winners at Olathe, plus scores from several Kansas City area games and New York Futurity results.
The Hart Memorial association in Lexington moves toward replacing the famed Hart statue. Saul of Florence Italy sent photographs of a model for reproduction. W L Molwan of Cincinnati, Kentucky-born, seeks to submit a competing model. McLean, a Kentuckian, favors a local son handling the reproduction. A critic notes Saul’s photo misses the statue’s original spirit.
William J. Bryan will address Osage county fair listeners in Burlingame on September 8, with Governor Leedy to introduce him. Special train service is planned as crowds are expected, making the event statewide in scope.
In Avanta Georgia Deputy Sheriff C P Trimble fed ninety hungry black convicts from East Point after they worked on a road near his watermelon patch. Captain Duncan sent a wagon with melons to the field, and the convicts feasted generously, chanting with satisfaction as more melons arrived for rounds two and beyond.
Chicago August 25 The American Window Glass association will replace the old trust as a stronger body modeled on the Pittsburg Plate Glass company It will regulate production pro rate outputs and pay for products at agreed prices An estimated 1600 pots exist with 1900 controlled once the trust forms Wages may rise 10 to 20 percent under the new plan Led by H B Smith of Hertford Indiana and advocated by Wilsm Loefer Phillips and T H Hart the plan foresees wage equalization with selling prices
Ann Arbor August 25 Old Doc Nagele long serving janitor of the medical department faces retirement after fifty years of service Born in Wittenberg Germany 1831 he came by foot to Ann Arbor and was soon hired for cadaver handling He may be dismissed and pensioned disagreement between Superintendent Reeves and Dr Vaughan noted Also brief ad copy intermingled mentioning Chamberlains Calar Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and St Gunther's Pharmacy promotional lines
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