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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1894
Page
3
A vintage ad describes glowing furniture effects in a shop window. It highlights gilded divans cream and gold reception chairs and ladies desks as stylish, useful pieces. The piece invites shoppers to brighten homes with holiday stock and Christmas savings.
A promotional notice suggests buying Newsstyle book cases to honor valuable old harvests of ideas. It argues that borrowing from previous works strengthens thought and invites readers to purchase cases priced from five to twelve dollars for home use.
Their sanitary properties and flexible ornamentation appeal grow as we restock. New beds join near daily diminishing stock, priced at 7, 8, 12, 15 and SYS, in color and white with brass trim. An all nickel plated bedstead offers a novelty, priced to attract buyers.
The article extols dainty tables as refined bedroom accessories, pairable with heavy dressers. It highlights oak and curly birch options, praising their proportional beauty and retirement tasteful appeal, noting a price of 25 dollars as a fitting gift from father to daughter and a lasting keepsake.
Unclear fragmentary text lists names and addresses including a drawing of Thompson Bros and a county plan reference. The readable portion hints at a local business or property matter involving Thompson firms and a county action, with partial street and contact details.
A preacher addresses revival dynamics, praising the flood of converts and stressing the need for orderly, spirited awakening. He argues early conversion yields lasting impact, warns against anti revival bias, and cites historical figures to illustrate revival benefits and risks. The piece also contemplates societal progress, technology, and global salvation through sustained religious energy.
Portrait of George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier chronicling his fifty year rise from chemist and musician to celebrated artist and novelist famed for Trilby and Punch caricatures. Notes his vision loss in Antwerp and shift to literature spurred by Henry James and his family.
Erudite Supreme Court justices oppose First Comptroller Robert Bowler over a new monthly payment route via vouchers and the treasury. Bowler, a Cincinnati lawyer and 1592 candidate, keeps a strict uniform payment system despite circuits delaying checks, while rivals mock a local professor Treloar in Mexico Missouri.
Fragmentary report outlines a confused narrative about an attempted act by an unnamed foe. It mentions investigations, alleged raids, and references to persons like James Kone and Perret T, with unclear connections. The readable content hints at medical or chemical terms and a drug sale notice, but specifics are obscured.
A humorous mix of reflections on happiness through usefulness and patience. It cites The Paternal Talk and a New York World example, detailing Susan’s bonnet ritual and her motherly patience, contrasted with a father’s and son’s classroom questions.
A fragment from the Chicago Record features a playful exchange about author titles. Mme Bashlen notes Rustio’s book titles signal happiness while Mme Soithwn observes that knowing titles reveals what the book is not about.
A jumble of lines notes a person saying we are so alike they took us for sisters and hints that someone holds a grudge. The text records Prescott & Co and Peerless Stamp Laundry relocating to 143 West Eighth Street, with nearby references to Life magazines and the old addresses 712 and 214 West.
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