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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1902
Page
8
Now is the best time to view our display of China and cut glass with full lines of fancy odd plates in bread and butter tea and breakfast sizes. Purchases can be laid aside and delivered later. Tea cups sabiburs and more priced 10 cents to 4 dollars each. Also A D coffee cups and saucers and chocolate pots priced from 25 cents to 5 dollars per item.
The Galveston Texas wedding of Miss Margaret Lars Mitchell to Mr Cornell Davis Adriane was conducted by Rev Charles E Sullivan at First Presbyterian church in Topeka with a large local attendance. The couple departed for a North Texas trip and will reside on Avenue K after their return. both are prominent in Topeka society.
Topeka poet Mr Pugh receives published recognition as George W Crane & Co release two booklets of his verse. The pieces praise talent while reflecting a troubled past and political themes. The volume includes "The Life Man" and other pieces from early college days.
Ripon Wisconsin police responded to a belfry riot at a Congregational church as students clashed over a banner reading O 7 percent. A freshman climbed the bell rope to plant the banner triggering a melee with sophomores below. Women and others were present as the crowd dispersed after intervention.
Secretary Coburn commissions a poem by Mer Wilson for the Utah meeting program. The poem lauds a Kansas farmer whose steely grit and rough, self reliant style lift the town, portraying a man who thrives in hard times and wishes to remain on Earth beyond the setting sun.
New York report details the death of a Drew Seminary student in Morrietinwn after a live incandescent lamp wire touched him in Hoyt-Browns dormitory. The victim, age 4, had been adjusting the lamp while feet rested on a radiator as he attempted to reposition the light, contact with the exposed wire delivering a fatal shock. The incident occurred in the dormitory room with the bulb overhead.
Dee J. W. Carrall, a national board member at United Mine Workers, killed Mary Ellis at her doorway after dust in his face during an exchange of repartee. He fled toward Hinton but was captured thirty miles away.
A rare operation to correct a spinal curvature was carried out at a Brooklyn hospital by Dr Royal Whitman on Seth Wh Mams of 2 Willow Street, Brooklyn. The patient, about 30, from New Zealand, had curvature due to Rennie and breathing difficulties. The vertebrae were broken and rebuilt, a risky procedure with uncertain recovery, followed by casting and later a thinner cast. Dr Fink will lecture at Second and et ate Sante on December.
Susanna Drury and Bruce Drayton race through a snowbound Christmas Eve to reach Pen-Drayton as a fire consumes the manor. Braced by danger and love, they flee the blaze on riding beasts, aiming to marry at the courthouse while a family feud and a jailed future loom large.
An advertising passage touts Hand Sapolio as a toilet soap that removes stains and roughness, prevents prickly heat, and leaves skin white, soft, and healthy. It claims bathing with it gives a glow and vitality akin to a mild Turkish soap, appealing to grocers and dealers.
Fragmented scene from a dramatic tale in which a character recalls a planned Christmas wedding amid a dangerous riot. Descriptions of fire, effort to rescue an enemy, and emotional exchanges hint at ongoing conflict and impending reunion as onlookers and patrons observe the turmoil and a hopeful vow.
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