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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1895
Page
8
The store announces a broad Christmas sale featuring woolen and fancy goods including hats, cloaks, and costumes. Dresses, fur sets, toys, and silverware are advertised with low prices and “new styles” for ladies and children, inviting shoppers to visit for discounts and special offers.
Calve and Corbett staged a staged dinner promise scene in Mandseme Reckinee where a necklace vanished on a boat voyage. Mme Clive mourns the loss as theater patrons comb the venue. An ad offer for reward follows, with the tale closing on her continued admiration for the actress. Fine Field glames at Bennett's optical store and 10c cigar ads conclude the fragment.
Dispatch from Kansas City Tim ervous Missouri notes the new pastor of the First Christian Church conducting a pre dawn baptism at White culphur lake. Three professions of faith were witnessed during the service, including H A Campbell a Missouri Pacetis conductor who was baptized before boarding his early morning train.
New York City plans a world class zoological garden funded by wealthy New York Zoological Society members. After months of planning a feasibility report outlines a multi million dollar project to be presented at an upcoming society meeting.
One and one third fare for round trip travel within 200 miles. Tickets valid December 24 20 31 and January 1 with return allowed including January 2. Information from J P Rowrey city nickel agent. Great Rock Island offers round trips at one and one third fare with return up to 3 percent. AM Polars city pass agent. White breakfast food advertised. Peerless Steam laundry promotion.
Topeka letters report a busy array of state and city items including the supreme court schedule, county instutute opening, jail inmates, bridge bids, and Christmas fund notes. Mentions include Topeka state board of agriculture, Masons No 17 officers, and local officials touring Wichita. A mix of arrests, trials, and civic events fill the day’s page.
A destitute Parkdale family from Jewall county, after crop failure, struggles in a cramped house. A poor neighbor’s bread is shared by a Parkdale woman who helps the family while neighbors learn of their hunger. Police are notified but aid is scarce and charities are urged to mobilize.
A noon protest by six inmates at the city jail objected to meager meals on the rock pile. They demanded fuller dinners, prompting Matron Thorpe to order restaurant food bought to satisfy the prisoners.
Holiday ticket promotions apply to Santa Fe Route trips within the city area with added December dates and January first, details available from City Ticket Agent J P Bowrrnn. The item also mentions conductors Snyder Kinne Connors and others in a partial, garbled note with unrelated phrases about smoking.
A dense OCR fragment lists various grocery items with units and brands. Items include baking powder, cocoa, chocolate, syrup, potatoes by bushel across states, molasses, lanterns, baskets, cheese, crackers, ginger snaps, sago, tapioca, starches, ketchup, honey, meat and lard products, hams, bacon, lard, and other staples. The fragment resembles a market catalog or advertisement page with quantities and regional potato quotes.
Tomorrow we start in upper our special prices in Lange Lots.
A dense catalog of groceries including clean dried fruits like currants and raisins, citrons, orange and lemon peels, apples, olives, and onions. It lists bulk and per pound prices, oysters, various sugars, flours, canned California fruits and vegetables, beans, mushrooms, sardines, canned fish, soap, and evaporated California fruits with assorted prices.
Wapello county residents report Dwight Moody and two evangelists attempt to convert Eddyville inhabitants who reportedly deny God or hell and refuse church motto. Evangelists face weeks without converts until Revert G. Ingersoll lectures draw the male population away from duties to hear the famed speaker amid local oath objections.
In New York City a plan for a gowned state court recalls Washington precedent. One justice of the new appellate division of the supreme court has decided that the judges will wear black silk robes like those of the United States Supreme Court.
Within 200 miles, round trip tickets sold December 24 25 31 and January 2 at one and one third fare. Return valid through January 2. J P Rowney City Ticket Agent and A Fatis City Passenger Agent announce special excursion pricing for December 24 25 January 1 2 with Rock Island line service.
The annual report of Treasurer J. C. Dennison of the Asian Stock Yards and Transit Company shows declines in receipts of cattle and in beef consumption and packing around Chicago. Dennison cites competition from St. Louis and Kansas City, noting shipments pass through those yards and that St. Louis yards are owned by Morris & Swift with large processing plants.
The Melan Bridge Company aims to dig up the island in the middle of the river east of the old bridge to narrow the channel to 630 feet. If awarded the contract, they will use a steam scoop and transfer the island by cable to the north bank for mill use, reshaping the riverfront.
Tickets go on sale December 24, 25, 21 and January 1 offering travel within two hundred miles. Peerless Steam Laundry at 112 and 114 West Eighth promotes woolens and a Little Gem cigar.
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