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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1895
Page
6
In society circles a party hosted by Miss Wilson celebrated Sar visiting friends. The event showcased cordial greetings, refined table settings, and a warm reception as guests enjoyed light refreshments and conversation.
Personal items from Topeka society detail Miss Eleanor Wilson hosting a Tuesday evening party for Miss Lutie Briggs of Atchison and Miss Lou Taylor of Leavenworth. The home on Topeka avenue glowed with lights, florals, and music, with elaborate emilax decorations, La France roses, and a Dresden centerpiece. Attendees include numerous local and visiting women and men from Leavenworth, Atchison, St. Louis, and nearby towns, plus box parties at the Grand and Imperial Club events.
A journal report describes heated rehearsal scenes for a Lady Minstrel show amid gossip of divorces and secrecy. It notes a drill master under scrutiny, the cast in blackface, and anticipation of musical numbers, box parties, and a charity angle. Also mentions social circles watching rehearsals, cast lists, and a Camera Club meeting at 1213 Western Avenue.
North Topeka coal dealers strain under severe cold to keep supplies flowing. Local shops promote wool hosiery caps and hats at low prices. Peters Skinner nursery shipped hundreds of pounds of trees to California. Underwear, blankets, and dress goods are blasted as sales. Engine 421 on the Santa Fe route returns from a trial after overhaul. A shovel brigade aids the L T & S W train blocked by snow east of Meriden.
Frank M. Bonebrake assistant cashier at Central National Bank says the institution has $70,000 in gold but cannot easily pay it out. He explains customers prefer checks and cash in other forms, and the bank would have to move gold to New York to adjust shortages. The vault is largely filled with silver and silver payouts are rare except on pension pay days.
Western lawmakers plan to block disposal of Pacific railroads lands until financial ties with the government are settled. California Representative Camignetti has a bill to forfeit unpatented land if bonds default, withhold patent actions, and suspend patent proceedings for bankrupt or receivership cases. He cites about 20,000,000 acres of grant lands still unpatented. ex Minister Stevens Dead.
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