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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1897
Page
11
A vintage ad lists boys and girls suits with prices in dollars and cents. Items include Cheviot and cotton blends, with ranges from about 1.25 to 5 dollars, highlighting a line labeled best tine and handsome line of suits.
Local shop advertises half price on manufactured suits and a wide range of children’s clothing and overcoats. It promotes young men’s suits in varying textures from Cheviot to Cassimere, with prices from five to ten dollars, urging customers to visit and compare quality, style, and price.
Local retailer slashes prices on men’s suits to under half value. Cheviot and worsted styles drop from four to twelve dollars, with many pieces reduced to five dollars or less. Large selection includes Prince Albert and Boucle suits, sported in plain, plaid, and mixed weaves.
Black and blue melton overcoats in heavy Oxford and chinchilla styles feature bites and buckskin details. The department occupies half the second floor, offering fittings for all sizes and styles at very low prices, with prices starting around 29.00.
Rawter & Says drug store opens sales for Columbia Opera company performances starting tonight. Lower floor tickets 7 cents with early reservation for book holders. Repertoire includes Said Pasha, The Girl, La Mascotte, Giro Ne Hirota. Company led by Alice Hutheriin McNell and Miss Ithel Balch. Positive reviews from other cities. Crawford theater hosts tonight with Miss Mabel Crawford praised for Martha and Faust.
Police Patel is repeated. The price was 20 cents for adults and 1 cent for children. Last night the company presented The Midnight Alarm to a fair audience, and the extremely cold weather likely kept attendance lower than possible.
Chicago December reports quote George F. French, a key Letter interest agent, predicting May wheat at 70 cents high and possibly rising to $1. He claims traders watch supply and demand, not commercial positions, and expects Minneapolis millers to push price as spring demand grows. French declines to reveal volume bought, stating all wheat bought will be delivered.
A Kansas Medical college student visiting the Sanation Army hospital attempted to gain nursing experience by inserting a thermometer into a patient's mouth. He damaged the mercury bulb, causing a reading that puzzled staff until a head attendant corrected the reading and the patient’s temperature was restored to normal. The incident occurred near Mattison at Kansas Avenue.
New York reports odds at 8 to 10 favoring McCoy who faces Creedon in a high stakes middleweight bout at the Long Island City Athletic Club. Fitzgerald, Corbett weigh in on the fight, with Fitzsimmons predicting Creedon’s victory and Corbett backing the Australian. The winner earns the world middleweight title and a $7,500 purse.
San Francisco announces a boxing exhibition featuring lightweights Lavine and Griffo, set for next Wednesday night in Garland under the newly formed Oakland Athlete organization, held at the Exposition Building on Twelfth Street as a venue for bouts lacking permits in the city.
Paris reports a rumor that Prince Louis Esterhazy may wed the widowed ex queen of Naples, sister of the Austrian empress, famed for leading the defense of Gaeta. The claim links Esterhazy to Mrs Langtry and notes Russian empress scrutiny, while naming Col Walkin in the Dreyfus shadow.
Deputy County Clerk John M Wright reports city of Topeka will pay about three fourths of the county tax levy. City general tax listed at 807.48 with special city taxes and school district shares noted. County tax distribution includes general revenue, poor support, and various bonds and funding brands across districts.
From St James Gazette reports Madrid letters say General Weyler's London reception is alarming the government. Artillery is hidden at key routes while rumors spread of a royal flight to France as revolts loom and royalists fear action.
At a Toledo meeting of the Maumee Presbytery the body adopted a resolution opposing opening a grill room patronized by Princeton University students. It says the move conflicts with the General Assembly and harms church and student interests until relations with Havard?trath are revised.
New York stage last night presented A Ward of France a romantic melodrama in prologue and four acts. Scenes move from France to New Orleans before the transfer of Toursiana to the United States government. Cast and staging receive cautious praise amid uncertainty of success here.
The Burns Lodge 225 A F and A M elected officers including Worshipful Master CS Downing Senior Warden Frank B Crane Junior Warden G W Balmer Treasurer J T Riess Master of Properties W C F Reichenbach Chorister James Moore Organist J J Peer Chaplain and others. The report also mentions unrelated uses of Cascarets Candy to cure constipation.
News aboard the steamship Doric from Japan reports Japan seeks protection of its interests in Hawaii even as it considers annexation. Japan demands indemnity from the Bavarian government and hints arbitration remains a possibility if terms are unfavorable.
Lexington Kentucky December 7 George Harris Lewis George Clark eight years old and noted as the original George Harris from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel Tom’s Cabin died yesterday afternoon in Lexington This brief obituary identifies the child linked to the literary figure and records the death date and location.
In Macon a circuit court verdict favored Jno Vaughn, a Black man born to enslaved parents, granting him possession of a house and lot valued around $1,000. The suit challenged inheritance rights of slaves’ offspring and traced Vaughn’s lineage to Elijah, his enslaved father, from Monroe county, with Martha Alverson as a former wife and Tink Hanger as a later claimant.
New York reports a renewed effort by dramatic stars led by Minnie Maddern Fiske, Francis Wilson, and Richard Mansfield to break the theatrical trust. Plan details are not public, but backers vow to boycott trust houses and support independent venues, signaling a fierce season of anti trust warfare and possible new alliance of anti trust theaters. Curtis Pieck of Anaheim praises Chamberlains Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after buying a bottle on recommendation. Washburn College lecture season tickets for five remaining numbers priced at 1.25.
Promotes Stewart's Dyspepsia Tablets as the cure for indigestion and stomach trouble. Claims include improved digestion, stronger nerves, clearer complexion, and better blood, with a 60 cent price and a free booklet offer from Stuart Co Marshall Mich.
New York workers began installing a heating system at Grant's Tomb to protect caretakers and preserve the mausoleum. Experts recently found sweating walls that threaten marble, noting that improper drying could cause disintegration unlike typical buildings.
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