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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1899
Page
4
The article compiles scattered items from editors pages and wire reports, citing figures like Mr. Wanamaker and President Me inters, plus discussions of Chilean senate seating, currency reforms, and European prosperity. It mentions local political shifts in Massachusetts and railroading safety costs versus benefits.
A garbled notice mentions a CIDcage woman with inherited income of 3800 monthly seeking a deed donation and travel to Missouri. Another brief item notes an Atchison wife gifting her husband a patent boot binch device meant to aid home repair, now repurposed as a palm stand with boots still being blacked.
A collection of pithy quips and observations on vanity, politics, fashion, and relationships. The pieces lampoon public figures, social pretenses, and gender roles with wry humor and clipped anecdotes.
Book notes review multiple works including The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Ed Stratemeyer, Archibald Maimaton by Julian Hawthorne, and Life Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard. Prices, publishers, and brief assessments are provided, praising Stratemeyer and Hubbard for entertaining, wholesome writing and engaging narratives.
A survey of new books and authors with critiques and prices. Henry Wood, Mickey Finn Liguels, Frank Seabird, Mrs Drew Autobiography, Foster Civil War text, Townsend Love Story, Putnam poetry collection. Includes publisher notes and market observations.
A historical notice warns readers that scanning text in newspapers and books harms eyes. It discusses word-by-word reading, side-to-side eye motion, and fatigue from prolonged focus. The piece promotes wearing glasses for comfort and claims its focus on glass quantities is exclusive.
A review notes Campaigning in the Philippines printed by Hicks Judd Publishing in San Francisco. John Steere wrote the Kunese section as a correspondent and soldier. The work omits full participation by Colonel Tie and Major Whitman and faces claims of bias. The piece highlights Little and Hayle as leading lawyers and notes battles at Toulbou, Santo Domingo, and Malolos.
A Washington dispatch reports Major General Leonard Wood will be the official Governor of Cuba early next year, succeeding Major General Brooke. The president aims for a civilian style government with limited military control, reducing island departments. General Ludlow plans to return home when Wood assumes command, despite Army opposition to the Wood appointment.
A fragmentary dispatch notes a favorable qollitary comriiies report for Tuesday with expected immediate information. General Woot remains in Washington and will travel to Santiago to arrange for bla treme for Ww Flaum.
Leavenworth Kansas. A peculiarly featured case will be tried this term in the district court. P Kern once a Klondike joint in the Klondike region sues National Insurance Company seeking damages related to a loss from a building and tied to a contested legal question. The insurer refuses payment arguing illegality of a certain transaction and the suit centers on whether a claim for goods or compensation should be paid.
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