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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1902
Page
8
A local store markets muslin underwear embroidery and laces with an exclusive five day return privilege. The ad emphasizes great value and plain speaking, inviting customers to test the sale's value-giving power and encouraging clear understanding.
A new season sale offers thousand yards of Swiss embroideries direct from factories. An ordered lot filled with care, avoiding coarse or imperfect work. Priced from 3c to $1.00 per yard with dainty items in 5c lines and All-over Embroideries at 39c per yard and up.
An import house consigns 2500 yards of Torchon Laces with newest designs suitable for muslin underwear dresses and washable garments. Laces valued up to 124 cents per yard, but this week only offered at 5 cents per yard.
A department plans a major revamp to handle larger quantities and assortments of ladies and children's muslin undergarments. The sale starts tomorrow with cut prices on drawers gowns skirts corset covers and infants and children’s slips with limited quantities and emphasis on value and craftsmanship.
An advertisement announces a one day sale featuring shifting calicos Indigo Blue Calico non fading blue 36 inch Peresles and 250 yard table cloths at reduced prices. It promotes jardiniers ladders bric a brac mirrors albums vases and toilet cases with discounts from 26 to 50 percent.
A winding-up sale of Ladies', Misses' and Children's wraps furs underwear and other winter wear is advertised as a great Red Letter Sale. Window displays will reveal limited information with more inside. March 1st marks the clearance of all unsold winter goods.
A second reception at Mr George Port Ashton's Topeka home drew two to three hundred guests including Mrs T N Packard Mrs Fred Willner and Miss Norma Wheeler of Kansas City. The afternoon featured tea and coffee, carnation and palm decorations, and a card party at the Ashton home with many local ladies assisting.
Clarence Carl Galen Crook and Webster Buel Miss Mary Wi entertain informally at cards this evening with guests Miss Maude Bates Miss Lida Bergen Miss Amy Overmyer Garey Wilsons MMs Dongs Oversizes Mr BH Heacock and Mr A J Stout Mrs J Daniels host the Eastern Star social Tuesday evening at her Veale brook apartments There is no social dance at Steinberg hall next social Wednesday evening with music by a full orchestra.
Local Shawnee county figures battle over the Troutman Welch contest with claims of Curtis aiding Troutman and Mulvane powerless to influence. Welch backers argue Curtis will stay out of the fight while hoping for a supreme court seat for Welch. Richter’s backers seek a compromise to salvage his governor bid as Shawnee county loyalty remains with Welch.
The Rock Island announces F L Parke will serve as superintendent of bridges and buildings for the Rock Island line from Herington to Santa Tresa and the Sailna and Dodge City branches, effective today. M Bishop, previously acting superintendent, is named to oversee from Herington to Terral, Texas, with branches, as W Dauchy chief engineer in Chicago makes the appointments.
Leavenworth county delegates were appointed at a Republican meeting Saturday to represent the First district congressional convention and the renomination of Congressman Curtis. The county will have thirty delegates, ten of whom are inmates of the soldiers' home. A county convention to elect state convention delegates is set for May 5. The committee favored Dalley for governor and McCarthy for state treasurer.
The Populists of Republic County selected five delegates to attend the Topeka conference, detailing their representatives for the party’s regional gathering and agenda.
Delegates including J. M. Doyle, William Moor, Thomas Charles, E. K. Keith and H Cellins gather to determine whether Populists align with Democrats. Charles, editor of the Koelleville Freeman, opposes any Democratic coalition. Sedgwick County Populists elect delegates led by W. J. Babb, who also opposes the Democratic fusion.
The Lowman US school crisis continues as Black students refuse Douglass school admission amid denied entry to new buildings. G. W. Williams, the colored school board member, seeks a special session to settle the dispute before the board’s March 3 meeting, while parents urge an end to the controversy as nonattendance persists.
Senator Scott of West Virginia demands the removal of Joseph T. Bristow fourth assistant Postmaster General after Bristow sent two inspectors to probe the private character of a proposed Wheel ing postmaster nominee. The dispute centers on whether Bristow had right to investigate private matters.
Senator Scott met at the White House and fled amid protests over an inquiry into a candidate for the post office in Wheeling. Postoffice inspectors investigated private life, triggering a West Virginia-wide uproar and a $4000 damage claim. Senator Scott suspects Bristow ordered the probe and will seek removal if confirmed. West Virginia delegation vows to back Scott, while Postoffice officials refuse to comment.
North Topeka society notices list local visitors and events including George Albee, postmaster of Silver Lake, and Miss Mabel Jett of Grantville. Ornamental gatherings, funerals, and church activities populate a busy community scene with sales and personal announcements.
A garbled OCR passage lists numerous personal names, titles, places, prices, and scattered phrases. It references Adams, Hutchinson, Leavenworth, Beth Colljooth, FW, and various quirky items including medicines and possible notices. Not a coherent narrative or event.
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