Four Year Subscriptions and Ornamental Clocks Offer
An old advertisement offers four years of The Designer for $2.00 as a gift "welcomed by any lady." It promotes clocks in the Annex, gold lacquered stocks time-keepers, alarm clocks, and imported quilts with prices ranging from under a dollar to over twenty dollars, urging readers to send money, name, and address.
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Topeka
Frank Bingeroy
Peat
D. R. Anthony
Leavenworth ‘Times
State Historisottery
Anthony
Johnson
Osawatomie
Xhall
Oie
Bins
Een Weeks
Handkerchiefs and Linens Offer Across Many Styles
Handkerchiefs numbered in about fifteen styles with all linen hemstitched varieties, embroidered initials and lace edgings. Prices range from 25c to $10, with gents’ plain linen and All Linen pieces, real lace edges, and assorted patterns in 44 inch bleached cloth. Many items feature embroidered scalloped edges and fine inserts, boxed sets, and a broad price line up to three dollars and more.
Silk Fans for Sale at Bargain Prices
A local seller offers white and black silk fans with lace and hand painting in various sizes. Prices range from 9 cents to 2 dollars and up, with 50 sample fans available for just over half price.
Blankets and Christmas Gifts In Wool and Cotton
Visit this department for Wool Blankets in White or Grey priced from 3.50 to 15.00 per pair Cotton Blankets in White Grey and Tan 0.50 to 2.25 Comforts both Home and Factory makes from 0.58 to 2.98 each Fancy Goods include Pocket Books Purses Hyery back jexrth and Brush Splice sets Mirrors Ebony Silver Dresden oval priced 0.60 to 0.90 Metal Frames Stands Cigar Jars Atomizers Nut Picks Candlesticks Silver Salts and Peppers in a great variety, money saved on every item listed.
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Tyeen
Ribbons and White Aprons Displayed for Christmas Gifts
Catalog snippet lists 400 pieces of fancy ribbons 3 percent inches wide with stripes and pillow ribbon suitable for craft use. Also 100 pieces of fancy ribbons 3 to 5 inches wide in latest colors valued at 3c 35c. White goods department highlights white aprons including embroidery trim and Swiss styles in assorted sizes and prices.
Linen Section Offers Wide Umbrella Bargains Too
Old catalog style ad lists a variety of umbrellas for men women and children with prices from 1.50 to 10.00. Features include different sizes 28 and 38 inch, mercerized covers, horn handles, and special prices plus engraved children’s options and free engraving.
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Peery
Christman
Topeka Chronicle: Christmas Preparations Amid Snowless Sleighing
The town reports scarce snow hindering sleighing while shoppers flood downtown stores each evening. Santa logistics and festive travel fill social pages as Beulah Hall reports smallpox. Franklin Visyes and others move about city for holidays. city hall and sewer maps advance with civic planning.
Bold Mail Theft At Post Office Doors
A December morning robbery at the old post office on Third and Olive streets saw three men beat mail wagon driver Oscar Keiling with a revolver butt. They fled with a sack of registered mail as the branch was crowded. Exact contents value unknown. In Guthrie, ice covers pastures. foresters warn cattle losses likely. A small craft named Giapae Mancerine drifted on the Charron river and drowned.
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J. P. Lewis
Pyramids
National Aid Association
Topeka
Board of Health
Col Hughes
Supreme Court
Nelson
State Teachers’ Association
Bronday
Baxis
St. Lowia
United States
Third and
Olive Streets
Oscar Keiling
Neanne
Kelling
Mer
Guthrie
O. T
Ube
Charron
Platt and White Clash Over New Yorker Attack
In a sharp rebuke the Kansan reports William Allen White’s December McClure’s sketch accusing Thomas Collier Platt of moral and intellectual narrowness. White depicts Platt as a power broker who cloakily peddles influence, maneuvers against Roosevelt, and relies on fear to control New York politics.
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New Yorker
Platt
New York
Kansas
William Allen White
United States Senate
Senate
Mont Wort
Hilaman
Thomas Collier Platt
Roosevelt
Quay
Senate committee picks show Burton on Private Land Claims
Washington December 18 the senate assigned members to committees including Private Land Claims Hale Kean Gamble and Burton Public Health and National Quarantine Jones Nev Gallinger Spooner Deboe Depew and others Railroads Clark Wye Melson Lodge Hawley Wetmore Beott Bard Relations with Canada Hanna Hoar Hale Fairbanks Cullom Derail of the Laws of the United States Burtons Dietrich Potomac river front investigation includes Millard Prye Scott Beverage and others Five Civilized Tribes Burton Dietrich and others Transportation and Gale of Meat Proouigate items include Hawley Hansbrough Lodge Scott Wellington National Banks Keans Burrows Penrose Trespassers Indian Lande Dietrich and Simon End of entry Holiday Rates via Rock Island tickets on sale December and January Final case noted.
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Burton
Washington
Senate
Hale
Kean
Gamble
Jones
Nev
Gallinger
Spooner
Deboe
Depew
Clark
Wye
Melson
Lodge
Hawley
Wetmore
Beott
Bard
Canada
Hanna
Hoar
Fairbanks
Sipe Burrows
Pritchard
Simon Gallinmanaeeger
Benboard Dillingham
Perkins
McLauris
Potomac River
Millard
Prye
Scott
Beverage
Bardivehe
Library
Mitchell
Dietrich
Gale
Hansbrough
Coal dealer ad promises best Osage City Shaft Coal
A. F. Wessen advertises as an agent for top mines in Osage City offering guaranteed best quality Osage City Shaft Coal and Pennsylvania hard coal. Coal is fork screened and clean. Telephone 504. 507 E. 4th St.
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Tam
Osage City
Talao
Pennsylvania
Leavenworth
Nac
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White Goods Dept
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Andersen
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Eureka
Kan
Burcks Messenger
Washington, D. C
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Ealing
Order of the Mystic Shriners
Santa Claus
Singhara
Acarsos
Sanitary Department
Beulah Hall
Lawrence Street
Charles F. Parnham
Stone's Folly
Jenniper
Sissoa
Kansas Medical College
Jackson County
Third Ward
Saga
Steele
Conrad Meyer
Meyer
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C. G
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Henry G. J. Swarzhkopf
Kansas Mutual Life Insurance Company
Newton
Julius Caesar
Swarzhkopf
Chicago World’s Fair
U. S
Prise Baking Powder CO
Cricano
St. Louis
Platt Vs. White
Pratt
Bis Nations Party
Xig Sul- Pare New Yorker
Piatt
Bananet
Dan Eukaace
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Manfer
Rock Island
Rookwood
Giazs
J.R. Hague
Konnes Avenue
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Klauer
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