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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1895
Page
8
Local ad from Cor 10th and Kansas Avenue and 109 East 6th Street touts wholesale prices on staples. List includes Butter Milk Soup, Coffee, peaches, prunes, tomatoes, currants, tar soap, oranges, cocoa, preserved tins, eggs and storage goods with mail orders shipped same day.
A young woman, once a donor to Associated Charities, seeks help during a bitter cold spell. She and her aged mother and an invalid sister face coal and food shortages after job loss due to eye problems. Mr. Russ verifies her tale and supplies a ton of coal and food.
Lawrence Kan Feb 5 Mrs. Gro Shearer longtime resident of Lawrence died after comforting a dying patient. She leaves two children J B Shearer a dry goods merchant and Mrs L O McIntyre of Springfield. Earlier her brother in law Dr W V May, a prominent physician, collapsed and died in the street just after visiting her bedside.
Dispatch from Pekin notes Teus Chou capture deepens Chinese belief Japan will not name peace terms. Refusal to treat with Chinese fuels expectations Tokyo holds firm on terms. Also, Elbe disaster inquest: mail bag No. 12 found off Southwold and Frederick Ernest of Magdeburg identified among the drowned remains.
A large Bodman leaf tobacco warehouse near the suspension bridge on West Front street burned at 6:40 this morning in a mysterious fire. The building and stock were destroyed with leaf tobacco in bogs heads lost. Total losses estimated at 220000 for stock and 160000 for the building.
The tale follows Bill Snow known as Wild Bill a flashy border man who adopts a killer persona to chase wealth and notoriety. After a volatile life from stage robberies to killings and a volatile marriage to Mollie, Snow is finally killed by an Indian scout and Mollie commits suicide, ending the border drama.
Seth Petty and Lucia Gray drift from the rustic farm scene to town temptations in Barnet, where a stylish waitress and gossip fuel Seth’s internal conflict. Lucia suspects danger as Seth contemplates leaving country life for a fashionable city romance, ending with a tense, unspoken confrontation on a dark road.
Mrs Stryker addressed a vast audience drawing cheers and attention from attendees. The crowd filled the venue as supporters listened intently to her remarks and perspectives on current issues.
Mrs Althea Briggs Stryker drew a huge crowd at Hamilton Hall denouncing ministers for fear of losing positions and urging true temperance reform. She assailed church indifference, warned that many pastors serve social clubs more than temples, and criticized the Topeka club while praising some humanitarian acts.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal presents a dialogue between Mr Closephist and Mrs Closephist about taking Johnny to see trained Tions. The piece hints at a moral framing echoing the Daniel in the Lions' Den parable.
A Topeka society talk condemns male vices while urging boycott of morally lax men. Mrs Stryker links motherhood to national freedom, denounces enforced motherhood, and calls for church reform. Collections are taken for hall and for famine-stricken settlers as the audience responds.
A Michigan representative introduces a bill mandating aliens planning emigration to the United States to apply for a certificate of immigration at a U S consular post at least three months before embarkation. Call 193 to arrange pickup of your bundle from Torsxs Straw Lauspar Steam Laundry at 312 and 114 West 8th.
The Frankfurter Zeitung notes the steamship Elbe, lost in the Elbe, valued after depreciation at $300 600 and original cost $725,000. London underwriters suffered heavy losses on the case.
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