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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1896
Page
6
In Topeka and surrounding area a series of society events drew local residents. Several gatherings featured notable guests, charitable drives, and cultural activities showcasing community engagement and regional social calendars.
The Keim home at 421 Grove Ave hosts a marriage reception for Anna Elizabeth Keim and Thumpsin of Topeka. The ceremony, by Rev. R. B. Wilburn, precedes a supper and brief bridal tour. Social items list entertaining plans, library ball events, and local visits from Topeka residents, with notes on dances, clubs, and upcoming gatherings.
Lois Fuller signs to perform in New York in February in her Salome revival. Armand Sylvester praised her serpentine dance sparked the idea, and the production features a dramatic biblical tableau with six lit glass panels on stage. The beheading of John the Baptist concludes the pantomime with Fuller as the central figure.
Benson an 88 year old engineer applied to Magistrate Kudlich in New York to be committed to Blackwell's relaundh. He cites a lifetime on rail and a purse raised by Republican delegates, then details a career including driving the first steam engine on a rail road and boarding at the Fifth Avenue hotel. The magistrate committed him for care.
An observer from the Stanford Interior Journal reports meeting a rugged moonshiner near Eisburs. The man carried two boots tied and tossed over a shoulder, displaying a quart bottles concealed in a boat and a gallon in a coal oil can, offering moonshine.
The report cites recruitment statistics showing 549642 farms in the country occupied by Brerses and 120755 owned by such occupants. It notes that despite limited progress in commercial vocations, the negro race shows creditable advancement in agriculture, likely its strongest area. the few lines reflect opinions from St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Washington Post on wartime hardships and new command adjustments.
The piece offers wedding gift ideas focusing on embroidered satin keepsakes and personal mementos, suggesting items like a richly colored prayer book cover and a gown fragment ornament. It also presents a novel parsnip serving method via an English walnut roll, almond candies, and a cinnamon caramel recipe from Good Housekeeper.
A historical fragment describes a home remedy for cockroaches using finely powdered plaster of Paris, oat meal, sugar, and a method of placing it in cockroach burrows. If ineffective after a week, it suggests a second mix of red lead, sugar, and flour with water applied similarly.
How to upitice an old Brussels carpet into durable flooring using oil, paint, varnish and careful drying. Apply seed oil and umber, dry thoroughly, varnish, let cure a week, scrub as needed, and tack down to remain in place for years.
New York lawmakers back a resolution demanding all US Germany correspondence on excluding American life insurers from Germany. Despite prior German actions against insurers in Prussia and Russia, the measure aims to pressure Berlin via state ledgers and requests explanations to Secretary Olney from New York officials and other states.
Cole H Watts once a U S government civil engineer was found dead Sunday in a cheap lodging house. He was the son of Judge Frederick Ja a former agriculture commissioner and jurist. Watts aged about 50 years had divorced ten years earlier and his wife and children live in Washington DC. His brother Captain R B Watts lives in Carlisle Pa. A county morgue hold was requested and Watts had lived in Chicago seven years. Also noted is a wholesale liquor failure of Pallenburg and Mayers with 18 200 mortgaged assets and uncertain stock value.
A new Pacific coast lumber trust unites the Central Lumber Company of California with all mills shipowners and dealers from Puget Sound to British Columbia. The $70 million venture regulates mill output vessel tonnage and lumber prices with implications for wages and coastal foreign markets. More than 150 ocean sailings fall under its control.
United States Consul Anthony H. Wells reports dire conditions in South Wales tin plate trade. Mills idle, around 170, with few running. a general suspension may be needed if no short term improvement occurs. Output likely to shrink as markets remain cramped and prospects bleak.
Joseph Cook of Boston, possibly back from Australia and Japan, is at Clifton Springs suffering from nervous prostration. He is nearly blind due to a week optic nerve ailment. He will be moved to his Lake George cottage in spring with hopes of recovery.
In St Louis on February 2 a linotype setting contest with a $200 prize saw Robert W. Francis of the Republic and John Clark of the Globe-Democrat compete. Clark set 2106 lines equal to 58 482 ems while Francis set 2174 bh or 58 608 cms. Francis declared winner but prize money was withheld pending a protest filed by Clark. The close seven hour event was watched by Stephen Bo Frevel and others. former Police Commissioner Stephen B. French died by suicide today, shooting himself through the heart.
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