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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1895
Page
5
Auction style sale offers Astrachan and Electric Seals capes 30 inches long with full sweeps and trims. Items include Wool Seal, Martin trimming, Thibet fur, and Velour capes with values ranging from $15 to $75, many discounted to $10–$25, with multiple sizes and styles highlighted.
Dennison's Crepe Paper plain roll 25c tinted 35c. We offer late novelties in head rests in gold drapery silk and satin options. Head rests in tinsel drapery trimmed with silk tassels. Each 15c. Sofa pillows priced from 50c to 3.00.
An advertisement lists wash velvet piano drapes by Bach priced at 3.50 dollars and silk piano or antel dranes with tinsel braid from 20 cents to 3.50 dollars.
A catalog style notice lists violet powder in a box choice extracts and satchet powder with prices 25 and 35 cents. Toilet water bottle priced at 89 cents. Other silver items include key kings match safes cigar cutters moustache combs manicure sets court plaster boxes stain boxes paper cutters book marks and more all in sterling silver at reasonable prices including sterling silver thimbles priced 25 and 50 cents.
Our stock of handkerchiefs is now complete for the holiday trade. Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs range from 10 to 50 cents each. Linen embroidered from 25 cents to 2 dollars each. Duchess lace handkerchiefs priced from 5 to 16 dollars and 50 cents each.
Bright silk ribbons priced by width and yard with quotes: 1 in and 1 4 in at 5 cents per yard, 1 4 in and 2 in at 10 cents per yard, 2 4 in and 2 in at 15 cents per yard. The note lists multiple widths and confirms silk quality.
A long rambling notice blends fiction with a legal claim by the Shawnee Indians against the U.S. government for $1,000,000 tied to land in Cape Girardeau and the Kaw river region. The piece also covers county teachers’ association officers, a trial involving Barbara Aub, and various local notices from Lincoln Post to coal dealers and bonds, reflecting a chaotic early Kansas newspaper page.
Judge Vandivert reports Republican opposition forming in the Seventh district over Long's fall campaign absence in Washington. He notes party strength has improved, Populists shrinking, and Cycl Lands as a favored choice. Vandivert hints at a possible U.S. Senate bid in 1907 while not declaring candidacy.
North Topeka notes from the north side of the river include Leon Tuttle's Sunday visit to Concordia and several local residents attending events with the Rhodes and Morris families. The W T & club plans a meeting at Mrs. A P Morris’s home, and Mrs Jemuel Jameson hosts the Ladies Aid Society. Candy and nuts plus Christmas greens are advertised, with local merchants promoting buckwheat flour and maple syrup. The funeral of Mrs O Van Freet was held at 1818 Monroe Street with Rev. Alderman officiating. Allen Stears suffered a severe accident when thrown from a wagon while unloading fodder, narrowly escaping serious injury.
Effie Blister has long impressed Atchison audiences in Hazel Kirke while other roles like Dunston Kirke and the lordly love scenes drew audience curiosity. She toured April with Doris and later appeared as Rosalind in a You Like It to a small crowd. John R. Ellster, her father, also appeared in the cast.
A Topeka newspaper item notes the Crawford Grand cancelling performances including The Old Sock and similar acts amid local editorials on real-life realism. It also covers Topeka grocers forming a retail organization to seek better freight rates and lists officers and meeting plans. Governor Pardons Three Boys and Supreme Court actions on Meade and Felitz island are reported, with Hall Caine sailing home and art prices at Trumbull’s.
A live alligator about five feet long was found by reform school boys skating on Soldier Creek. They killed it and took it to the school. Officials were excited. origin is unknown though superintendent suspects it escaped from a collection. The report mentions White laundry output.
The Topeka Gas plant sale closed in New York with Holliday present. The purchase price is around $640,000. A new company plans major improvements including a half million dollar erection and additions such as Kpcowire ether Gas process and ammonia extractor, with over $100,000 more in extensions. The firm, organized twenty five years ago, aims to modernize operations.
Barney Lantry, well known Kunaza contractor and former Democratic state treasurer candidate, died at his Strong City home Saturday evening at age 62. He suffered from diabetes for about twelve years and leaves a wife, son Iring, and Chicago relatives. Lantry accrued substantial property as a business man and owned a 13 000 acre ranch. Born August 11 1883 in St Lawrence County New York, he had been a prominent figure in political circles.
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