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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1895
Page
8
Ready for holiday trade as Christmas approaches. Buyers are urged to shop now while stocks are best and selection easy. Stores offer useful, beautiful, and strictly honest furniture, avoiding eleventh hour rush.
Prominent furniture sale features parlor cabinets, book cases, display cases, china closets, and a wide range of rockers from $1.25 to $50. Turkish style rockers with steel frames, center tables, and a dozen discounted items propel the buyer’s choice. Numerous patterns and finishes advertised to appeal to the dressy room.
A quirky ad style notes Cheffoniers expanding selection with better styling, neater decorations, and fuller sizes at low prices. Items priced at 3.29 and up to BW each are advertised as ideal gifts or personal essentials, inviting readers to experiment with unique Chefonier options.
Railroads report earnings down in November as Atchison system shows declines and Santa Fe engines shift divisions. Notes cite personnel moves, line upgrades, and new appointments across Kansas and Missouri. A separate trial closes with a four year penitentiary sentence for Zimmerman and Lan.
In a Sunday forenoon scene at a federal building, jurors found George Zimmerman and William Bailey guilty on burglary and arson charges in the Tyner post office case. Mrs. Zimmerman and her three children wept loudly as the verdict was read, the eight year old clinging to her father and pleading for him not to be taken away. The foreman announced the verdict as Judge Foster, Assistant District Attorney Jeukie Mason, and officials observed the emotional aftermath.
In Topeka district court two alleged jointists, Robert Neisler and Mansfield DeMoss, were acquitted amid claims whisky vendors exploit spotter connections. Jurors discharged after hours, defense attorneys argue police rely on weak connections, and officials urge caution to prevent letting guilty ram sellers go free.
Stuart Robson will not appear in Topeka and only Mansfield and a few others remain for the winter season. The crowd must seek better shows elsewhere as plans for new productions falter and Robson relocates to New York to work on a play. In Topeka locals plan a theater train to catch any worthwhile entertainment amid dwindling options.
Chicago Two Million Club sends congratulations to Topeka One Million Club and endorses moving the U.S. capital west. If Chicago cannot win, Topeka could be next. Telegram dated from Chicago includes season’s wishes and sign-off by Councillor Robert C. Griggs, president.
John Maze of 1832 North Quincy street returned from services at Wesleyan Methodist Church to find his horse and buggy missing from in front of the building. The rig was later found tied near Tarser bell, blankets dusty, horse uninjured, driver unknown. Maze is uncle to Palicorian Owens. force recovered the carriage. Church sits at Third and Jefferson streets.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a list of stockings with illegible names and numbers, making it impossible to extract a clear event, date, or entity. The readable bits mention Leather Stockings and Stockings entries with numerical cues, but no coherent action or locality is identifiable for a concise summary.
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