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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1896
Page
5
A bustling grocery ad lists numerous items with bulk quantities and discount pricing. It touts direct-from-refiner sugar, coffee, lard, canned goods, butter, fruit, and snack items, promising value and satisfaction on every sale.
Wheat shipments from Chicago to the Missouri River will drop to 12 cents per 100 pounds as an emergency rate amid wheat famine concerns. The article also lists personnel changes, inspections, and operations across Santa Fe and related lines, including appoinments, resignations, office transfers, and engine updates.
Notes from the State Journal's Dodge City Reporter list Santa Fe employes and duties. Conductor O Day and Lusk bought homes this week while others report for duty from Denver. A new sixteen stall round house is slated for occupancy February 7. Several engineers, conductors, and officials are named, including R. division events, a February 18 annual ball, and railway work at Rock Island and Manhattan.
A drunken Pegleg attacked in the city jail after a tip about selling beer instead of hops. He beat John Wolf who had been jailed earlier, drawing police intervention. The incident highlights alarm over public spending on policing and calls for action against Pegleg. Also, Police Sergeant Donovan reports the theft of twenty chickens from his Madison Street home, with thieves likely striking before or on the night before.
A tested whole wheat bread recipe from the Evening Post outlines a yeast dough method using flour, boiling water, and a batter stage, with two bake profiles for loaf shapes and a chick bake option. It also notes a second leaf-handling recipe from Miss Johnson with milk butter salt sugar and wheat flour, plus guidance on rising, gradual flour addition, and pan baking times. The notice ends with a Santa Fe round trip fare and malt nutrine product promotion.
The grand jury probes alleged false representations by Sprout to wholesale houses to obtain goods and possibly money under false pretenses as receivers deal with a stock dispute. Witnesses include Sproat and Arderry. hundreds of letters seek repayment from a store receiver. Jurists struggle with appointment of a pro tem judge amid ongoing stock and legal actions.
A sensational Topeka arrest was blocked when County Attorney Safford refused to file the complaint. Fred Heller, a druggist, aims to prosecute S. Hand, Forum Magazine business manager, for allegedly selling liquor. Hand, visiting from New York for a funeral, is a son in law of A. J. Whiting.
Nellie Marshal Showalter, famed as a leading woman chess player of her era, gained recognition after marrying Jackson W. Showalter. The article notes her rise in the chess world, her Kentucky roots, and plans to compete internationally via cable in April against other top female players.
A damaged 19th century snippet outlines darning techniques for repairing woolen fabrics. It describes weaving, edge concealment, threading, and pressing steps to mend torn cloth with careful stitch work and specific material choices, noting the need for neat, nearly invisible results.
Readable OCR fragments reveal a jumble of names and phrases from multiple papers. The lines touch social gossip about marriages and fittings, with mock quotes and stray editorials, all reflecting era tone and local color. Absent clear events, the item reads as gossip collage.
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