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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1898
Page
2
The sale features mostly new goods, nine-tenths unused since Loveland's failure. Bought at less than 50 cents on the dollar, the stock will be offered very cheap. The sale opens tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock with figures showing a portion of the story.
A fragmented advertisement lists shoe prices including men and children's footwear. It shows Loveland and Caremat brands with various figures such as 1.06, 1.00, 1.25, and 0.75 dollars, plus mentions Henderson School House Shoes and carpet slippers.
An unreadable OCR fragment lists various metal items and prices such as copper, tin, and galvanised pieces. The text is partial with garbled terms and inconsistent formatting, lacking clear entities or a coherent event. No definite date, place, or organization is identifiable.
A list of Loveland price and our price quotes for a range of textiles including 86 inch bleached and unbleached cottons, ginghams, cambrics, drapery fabrics, flannels, oilcloth, ticking, satins, and wrapper goods. Prices show a consistent lower “our price” undercuts across multiple items.
Catalog style worn prices show Loveland offers on men and boys wool and fur hats caps suspenders silk goods coats valises and satchels with our lower prices listed beside their Loveland prices highlighting shopper savings across multiple items.
Catalog line items list Corticetti spool silk cotton spool Loveland's ink perfume hair ornaments pins paper and combs, sewing needles elastic web garters stockings and hosiery, pins talcum powder perfumes pencils and fabrics with prices and bulk quantities. Many named brands such as Loveland's Corticelli Jolly Bailey's and Halay'u populate a lengthy price-rich inventory for a general store sale.
A disturbance erupts at a licensed saloon over whiskey consumption triggering police attention. Patrons accuse a bartender of overstepping local liquor rules, while authorities investigate the incident and note potential violations of city ordinances.
A discussion in Atlanta centers on whether women should be allowed to enter licensed saloons alone if men may enter. The article quotes ministers and lay leaders, including Mary J. Morendon, councilmen Howard Camp and others, debating equal rights, propriety, and enforcement. It notes support for equal access with caution, and condemns anti female entry while calling for consistent law enforcement and social reform.
Washington February 4 The Union Pacific reorganization committee met with the President and Attorney General to discuss bidding for the Kansas Pacific railroad at the February 15 sale The committee hopes to bid up to the government debt of about 6 203 million and to modify government stance accordingly The sale will proceed as court order dictates Eureka Springs Arkansas markets advertise all year round rail travel and cut rates via Frisco Line plus a tobacco cessation pitch and a No To Tobacco ad sequence
Edna Gordon the “queen of confidence women” exposes three prominent New York crooks, Frank Aldridge, William Raymond, and James Leak, detailing decades of schemes across cities. She recounts her rise from petty theft to major cons, including a Kansas City start, arrests in St Louis and Chicago, and a dramatic life of crime with a long list of victims and a failed effort to free her husband and support her family.
New Jersey faces a sharp rise in blindness attributed to infectious ophthalmia. The New Jersey State Board of Health reports the rate is five times higher per thousand than population growth, with infants and young children most affected. Enforcement laxity of prevention laws cited. nurses and midwives previously required to take action.
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