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Topeka State Journal

Location

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Feb 06, 1896

Page

6

Reception at Fuller Home Showed Wide Town Interest

About 150 people attended Miss Fuller’s reception last evening at her West Sixth Street home from 7 to Widelock. The decorated parlor featured white and green, with Easter lilies, violets, palms, and a large Easter centerpiece. Guests included Mrs A M Fuller and Miss Guene with a notable receiving party and attendants in formal attire.

Fumie Chung Aimouk Vaptein A.M. Fuller Miss Guene Mrs Fuller Mise Fuller Charles FL Spencer Richard Gundry Je Detmore Mabel Quigily Anne Ewart Mise Fiore Mayo Mary Horner Wille Rodgers BR. K. Jassivon Berenice Fuller Olive Goodry Roberta Akers Effie Hazen Euchre Club HH. Crosby Wnd George W. Crane Lottie Page Edna Crane EL. Copeland Rockford Afr Copeland Chicago Sere L. Lewis Breckinridge J. F. Jarrell Boatesa E. J. Seely Denver Edas Carpenter Lily Herring Arch Stewart John Trimbl Kansas City Mamie Grant Leas Ithodes

Kindergarten News and School Board Actions Reported

A meeting covered donations and volunteers for local kindergartens, with Washington and East Side schools noting enrollments. Plans to discontinue Hebany school due to cost and low attendance were adopted, while fund-raising and lectures were requested to aid city students.

Santa Fe Lessie Woolger Auburodals School St Luuis Vincent Hont Popenoe Sli Vessog Sebuul

Weather projections clash with forecast across Kansas

Weather forecasters waver as scattered snow and cold spell edges into Kansas tonight with mixed readings for the plains. Eastern areas report cloudy cool conditions while Nickerson towns see fair cool weather. snow from Phillipsburg to Colorado Springs. Bates New Mexico sees heavy snowfall. Texas and Colorado remain cloudy and cold. Dr Marshall in Topeka with Rev Thomas Marsueli visiting to lecture on missions at First Presbyterian Church.

Kansas Santa Fe Kensus Nickerson West Fair the & Island Phillipsburg Colorado Springs Bates New Mexico Suatuera Texas Colorado Marshall Topeka Thomas Marsueli New York City Board of Forsive Missione The Presbyterian Church Topeke Maratail First Presbyterian Church

Modes and Fashions in 19th Century Dress Displays

A fashion note describes magnesia treatment for fabrics, tea service customs in Paris, and violets as a decor trend. It outlines evolving sleeve shapes, belt and bow details on ball gowns, and a jaunty Louis Seize silk look. The piece predicts a shift in overall mode with new gowns and accessories.

Tyre Eloeh Paris Elosa Tower Mario Auntouinette Godet Louis Quinte Louis

Evening gowns and embroidery dazzle at Laon fashion show

Maristan Modiste showcases refined evening gowns with heavy embroidery on silks and brocades. Designs feature floral sprays, belts with tucked flowers, and lavish ornaments. The collection emphasizes dinner gowns, decolletage variety, and silk bodices with crisp details.

Laon

Reunion and Festival Plan For Topeka Event

A citizens' committee of fifteen in Topeka met to set a fall week for a combined commercial club reunion and city festival, pending securing the event. The group approved late September as the date, elected new members to fill vacancies, authorized appointment of executive and working committees, and scheduled weekly meetings to finalize arrangements for Topeka’s largest reunion to date.

Commercial Cb Topeka Citizens’ Committee City Council Commercial Club Attics Kansas City E Wilsor F. O. Poposus J. Greanwald du. J. Anderson Topaka

Drunken morphia spree claims three in Pennington Va

Dr Lurst and companions drank then injected morphine at Pennington Virginia. Meyers and Tracy died within minutes, Dr Hurst died soon after. A woman, Mrs Meyer, was held and injected. she convulsed and survived only briefly. Several others are gravely ill with poor prospects of recovery.

Buveriecos W. Va Dr. Lurst Pennington Meyers Mr. Tracy Dr. Hurst Meyer

Simpson as candidate to challenge Long in Kansas city race

Jerry Simpson plans to run for his old congressional seat against Long, asserting a GOP split in the party and liquor policy shifts. He will stay in Washington about a week to organize and announce debates, as supporters weigh silver policy and populist strategy. In Brooklyn, a three story brick building on Second Avenue collapsed in a storm, burying three workers and prompting rescue efforts.

Washington Wasuinotox Jerry Simpson House Ieen Lim Alliance Simpson Uuetoess Jerry Populieis Kanga Mareill Say Candicate Arty Simpeon Brooklyn Bhooxirs Second Avenue Firth James Quigley Michael Mulcahey Bush & Denison Cherical

Sheds at public expense condemn seed distribution

The Bay State Agricultural Society condemns the prior system of distributing seeds to members of Congress at public expense. In a January 15 1805 letter from Secretary Morton, the society voices approval of his action to stop the distribution, calling it extravagant and wasteful.

Bay State Agricultural Society of Maneachusetts Wasaixeron Morton Kag Bay State Agricultunat. Society Bosra Toth Washington D. C Bay State Agricultural Society Verneas Department of Agriculture Morton Congress Henry L. Suumway

Baldwin Electric Locomotive Shipped for Western Rail Service

The Baldwin works has shipped the first electric locomotive to Westinghouse Electric in Allegheny. The car sized engine weighs sixty tons and, with 600 horsepower, can haul a freight train at forty miles per hour. It runs on either overhead or underground wire, carries no coal or water tank, and costs about $1,000.

Baldwin Atlebany Pauapewata Fsb Baldwin Locomotive Works Westinghouse Electric Works Allegheny Wetewai

Ill Prisoner and Heat Grim In African Jail

Dispatch from New York datelined February six reports Adieputch to the World from Cape Town that Hao mood the American prisoner in Pretoria is very ill. Extreme heat and unwholesome jail conditions are noted. Five reform leaders in Johannesburg are crowded into a single eleven foot square cell.

Youk Cape

Angers over Pall Mall Gazette editorials and mid Africa news

From Blantyre advices dated Jan 23 the Slehe under Beitieu officers have won two clear victories over raiders in British Central Africa. Arabs routed, fourteen chiefs captured, road inland cleared. Also London: Pall Mall Gazette editor Henry J. Cust and assistant Muller refuse resignation. staff plans a joint statement. Other items: gold prospecting near Cripple Creek and West Creek. Cardinal Hampolla denied resigning. Wells Fargo express thief sentenced. Armenia relief trip led by Miss Ciera Barton.

Akikhs India de Pketz Central Africa Lospos Blantyre Beitieu Afric Astor DE Os R Mall Lonnox Henry J. G Cust Pall Sall

Munyons Cough and Cold Cures Prominently Advertised

An old advert promises Munyon’s Cough and Cold Cures will break a cold within twenty four hours and prevent pneumonia when started early. It touts Cough Cure and Cold Cure as a duo, claims lung and bronchial relief, and offers free medical advice from Prof. Munyon. A separate civic note reports three soldiers fined for drunkenness, with remarks about Dante and Cardinal Newman, and a church notice invites youth to hear Rev Dr Thomas Marshall.

Muoyan Piunyon Feileao Mupynt Archairset Patludelpuis

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