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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1901
Page
8
The management will close the store from 8 A M to 12 30 P M on Wednesday and possibly Thursday to search the stock for badly broken assortments and mispacked or soiled goods. A thorough culling will follow with a dramatic price cut and plain figure tagging to reflect the Twentieth Century idea. The closing prevents overtime and aims at a rapid, wide sale.
Genuine Barrios Diamonds ads promote rings studs and earrings at one dollar each with guarantees and mail orders. Claims gold filled rings with opal turquoise centers, heavy plated mountings, and long-lasting brilliancy. Includes notes on Christmas rush and promotional events led by Barrios Diamond Co. New York headquarters and related civic program details.
The Kansas Grange plans a two day gathering in Topeka with a public opening on the first day. Once a major political force in Kansas the Grange now emphasizes community service with about 3000 members and seeks to remain nonpolitical while holding district meetings and music and invocation events.
A historic note promotes Scott's Emulsion as nourishing for nursing mothers and improving breast milk. Claiming thin milk becomes richer, it states babies benefit with fatter, stronger growth. Presented as medical advice from a New York advertisement.
Commandant W D Snyman recently met with President Kruger in Pretoria and reports Kruger is in better health than in four years. Snyman says Kruger sends thanks to Boer supporters and has decided he will not visit the United States.
Cincinnati hosts the first gathering of the American Federation of Catholic societies with about SW members. Delegates march to the cathedral for mass led by Father Quathian, Bishop Hartman, and Archbishop Elder. A large choir accompanied the ceremony before the luncheon of speeches by Ohio and Columbus officials and federation leaders.
The State Board of Agriculture reports Kansas farmers produced more than seventeen million dollars in added wealth this year over 1900, with wheat yields the largest on record. Despite drought limiting corn, overall farm products and livestock value rose to 348 million dollars, the greatest state total in history, aided by hay, sorghums, and dairy outputs.
A Brooklyn man recounts his eleven month old baby growing thin and pale due to insufficient milk. After trying Grape-Nuts soaked in warm milk with sugar, the child recovered, thriving on Grape-Nuts. The letter from Mokiroy, 996 So. 4th St., Brooklyn, urges others to verify the claim and endorses Grape-Nuts as a beneficial baby food and brain tonic.
Large sale of seats for the Modjeska and Louis James in Wagenhals and Kemper’s Henry VIII at Crawford tonight. The famed pair, praised as top Queen Katherine and Cardinal Wolsey, headline a 37 member company with grand pageantry and vibrant stage sets, promising a memorable tour.
Mr Norman Hackett will star as Henry VIII with Miss Lola Gale drawing strong social attention in the cast. The show opens tonight under the eastern-title name. Crawford hosts The Daughter of the Diamond King Wednesday, Jess of the Bar Z Ranch Thursday, Whose Baby Are You Friday, plus The Kilties from Canada and Alvin Joslyn Saturday matinee and night.
Money within reach as 487 bonds for the Masonic temple project have been subscribed with 233 remaining. Stream Lodge 229 votes to take 6 bonds, Topeka Lodge 17 accepts 100 bonds, Orient Lodge 94 bonds, and Topeka Commandery Knights Templar plans to take 3 bonds. remaining bodies yet to act.
The Scottish Rite shows sympathy with the temple proposal and 22 percent bonds portioned to the rite will be accepted at the meeting Fildey night. Bond disposal to lodge members starts immediately and temple plans will begin without delay. Fire at Big Lick mine near Lykene Williams town ruins work. hundreds laid off as a blaze hits mines owned by a company in the Lykens region.
A large Crawford audience enjoyed Too Rich to Marry last night as Ed Redmond’s portrayal of Jonathan Radbury generated much of the humor. B R Brown, a Manhattan native and Agricultural College professor’s son, also impressed with a pleasing stage presence.
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