Stevenson & Company. The Last Cut Before Christmas
Stevenson and Company announces a clearance to make room for Christmas goods. Dress goods will be cut back to free space for new stock and holiday items.
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1894
Page
6
Stevenson and Company announces a clearance to make room for Christmas goods. Dress goods will be cut back to free space for new stock and holiday items.
Miss Bessie Gibson hosted a Thursday afternoon reception with elegance in pink and white decor. The piece lists numerous attendees from Topeka and Leavenworth, highlights gowns and refreshments, and notes later social gatherings and community notices.
A fragment from a Topeka social column notes flirtations and memory quirks, a dancer worried about future suitors, and beliefs in luck and superstition. It mentions a singer who talks rather than shops for plans, a cab fare anecdote, and a wedding ring superstition about a bride who never removes her ring.
Dr Buckley ridicules the idea of a Friday curse then concedes some grounds for belief after audience questions. The event at the Methodist church last night featured remarks on Columbus Pilgrims Arnold and independence. The Woman's Keeley league plans an entertainment at the Congregational church Monday to aid their work. Local notices include funeral details for Mrs. Clara Berton and various business ads and photography promotions.
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