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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1896
Page
2
A fragmented OCR note from a New York shopping roundup reports a five million count for Santa Claus appearances. The brief item notes store showcases and crowd estimates with unclear details.
On Christmas Eve New York residents rushed to large shopping sites on the East Side for gifts and groceries. Reports describe crowded streets, heavy spending, and frantic bargaining as shoppers seek hard to find items with many purchasing stakes and limited stock. Police and merchants warn of pickpocketing amid the bustle.
A damaged poem fragment speaks of a single dawn hued rose offering love and a tender tale. It ends with a desire for the beloved to read its scented book and share a kiss, promising a heart and gift of dewy pearls and silken portals. The line E FREXTAC appears as a signature.
A lively scene on Grand Street depicts a tough girl buyer navigating shops and street vendors. Detectives, hustlers, and bystanders swirl through the lower Manhattan avenues as a shopper eyes bargains while street chatter and curious onlookers fill the block.
A noisy dispatch discusses Tolstoy exile and a growing Russian reform movement. It details Tolstoy’s life at a Yasnaya estate, his writings amid political pressure, and the Czar's hard line against revolutionary ideas, with emphasis on the wider struggle between autocracy and reform.
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