Social notes of Topeka society weekend party
Topeka society items detail a complimentary party for Miss Ann McWadden hosted by Ida Russell and Hattie Mary Clark at the Physical Culture school parlors.Guests enjoyed cards, dancing, and a bowling feature with full dress and gloves. Attendees include Mrs. C. J. Brown and numerous local residents and visitors.
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Topeka
Misa Ann McWadden
Ida Russell
Hattie Mary Clark
C. J. Brown
Hassell
Mcfadden
Nellie Jay
Hutch
Carrie Clirkson
Glenna Cross
Julia Streat
Guest
Mids Storgis
Concordia
Lawler
Nellie Lawler
Edna Best
Helen
Frances Moun
Etessor Wilson
Lillian Gommel
Aschan Brewer
Lulu Manspeaker
Meders
Nipps
Ring
Bowman
Rust
Adama
McBride
Allen
BS Allen
Bronson
Dana
Furry
Perry
Gurgess
Jamison
Carey
Lawrence
Stretcher
Clay
Waters
Akers
Holman
Ewart
Abrahams
Histed
Peakrson
Laida
Bennett
Williams
Foulks
Jurrall
Ae Flower
Brewer
Mason
Ele
A. V
Miss Gemmel
Robert Gemmel
Gertrude
Alice Potter
Highland Park
Mra Hayslip
Topeka Avenue
W. L Haskell
Atchison
Siva W
Rams
C. B Read
Ellis Thompson
Nellis Hawkins
Ottawa
Pansy Fclub
Henrietta
Rosamond Orton
Gae Smokescreen Device Planned for City Light Plant
A city smoke consumer is likely to be installed at the electric light plant. The finance committee favors the $1200 apparatus which promisingly saves over its cost in a year. Coal cost would drop from 315 to 185 per ton, slashing annual operating expenses by about 1500, while reducing nearby smoke.
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City Electric Light
Tere
Housing the Poor in Wrights Report on Public Housing
Carroll D. Wright’s eighth special report analyzes public interventions in housing for workers. It details Belgian savings bank loans, semi official committees, rent agencies, and urban renewal models like Miss Hill’s plan and the Edinburgh Social Union, arguing housing can be developed on a commercial basis with rapid transit. The study links housing to morality, economy, and crime, and notes lodging houses as profitable public investments while urging economic solutions to housing problems.
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Carroll D. Wright
United States Commissioner of Labor
Congress
Poole
General Savings Bank
Octavio Hill
Edinburgh Social Union
Indy
Miss Hill
Wlodel
Glasgow
English Tea Cozy Designs and How to Make Them
English cousins favor tea cozies for comfort and efficiency and the trend is spreading in the United States. The article explains making a padded cozy filled with elder-down, sized about twelve by twelve inches, with melon shaped side gores and rounded ends. It details cutting, sewing, and finishing, including rose chamois covering, chestnut silk lining, pinked edges, and decorative embroidery in gold and brown.
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Germany
England
Decorative Cozy Covers and Oriental Sofa Craft Notes
The piece outlines half oval tea cozy designs in chamois and linen with decorative embroidery and gilded edges, plus simpler Japanese crepe versions. It also offers ink stain remedies, a clever single white iron bed turned into an Oriental sofa with drapery and lantern, and a note on Sarah Bernhardt’s famed bed as a visual image.
Matinee Saturday Minstrels and Grand Theatre lineup
Matinee Saturday features Evaland's Minstrels at the Grand with a morning pine and a special afternoon show in Cleveland famed minstrelsy. The Brothers Byrne perform Eight Bells on Tuesday the 19th, while a new drama Colorado debuts at the Grand De Notion on Saturday night. Prof Swift offers a rare microscopic cosmoscopic exhibit at Library Hall Friday and Saturday evenings, with proceeds aiding the high school laboratory. Bucklen's Arnica salve advertised for skin ailments and piles.
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Evaland
Cleveland
Grand
Byrne
de Notian
Prof
Swift
Rochester
N. Y
Library Hall
Fursieh High School Laboratory
Tiss
Bwitt
North Topeka Items Of Interest And Local Deals
North Topeka notes shopping discounts at the New Era with a quit business sale and low prices on wool scarlet flannel and work pants. A Modern Woodmen camp formed at Silver Lake with an initiation of seventeen and a banquet. Leavenworth miller Kelly Lysle report 50,000 bushels wheat stored for milling at Capital Elevator, with shipments planned to Leavenworth via Rock Island and Santa Fe and Union Pacific lines.
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Cora Shellabarger
Henry Lodge
Silver Lake
Union Pacific
Santa Fs
Wood
First Ward
J. W. Paramore
J. A Hearick
A.C. Wallace
Frank Goodmas
Lake
Attha New Era
Dressrs
Kelly & Lysle
Leavenworth
Kas
Kansas
Bittom
Rock Island
Santa Fe
France gets in and capitalists to take roads
The Times reports French operators prepare to partake in the American Joan. No gold likely from Bank of France or Bank of England. Rumor says India may raise import duties on silver, possibly affecting other items. Telegrams lack clarity on scope. The rumor could dampen Indian silver demand.
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Lexpos
the Times
Bank of France
Bank of England
Nine Arrested for Burglaries at Boyer’s Market
Police arrest nine colored youths aged 14 to 23 after a Tuesday night burglary at O Boyer’s Meat Market at Second street and Kansas avenue. Some suspects held stolen goods. total loot about 25 dollars in meat and fish.
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Boyer
O. Boyer
Second Street
Kansas Avenue
Tom Erwin
John Gill
Clarence Waverly
George Branford
James Radford
George Brows
John Johnson
Henry Jordan
Charles Shieldsee
State Toys
Two Boys Frozen Dead After Skating Truant Visit
Jouxstons Pa February 14 Two boys aged 10 and 12 were found frozen along a Pennsylvania road in Westmoreland County. They had run away from home after skipping school and after a night of searching, their identities are believed to be John Caufield’s sons. Also reported are cholera cases and deaths, Vanderbilt family abroad, with brief notices of addresses and ads.
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Jouxstons
Penneylvania Road
4 Point
Westmoreland County
John Caufield
Caufield
Rights of Women and Law Measured by Common Sense
A House hold Journal correspondent criticizes legal inequities affecting women in the United States. She cites New York paternal rights over unborn children, Rhode Island naming disputes, Alabama theft verdicts over clothing, and Iowa’s ruling denying damages to Mrs Hall as a mere housewife. She urges women to seek justice and warns against passive acceptance while praising Kansas women advancing the race.
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Patrick Henry
Wendell Phillips
New York
Rhode Island
Alabama
Supreme Court of
Iowa
Grand State
Hall
Daniel
Kansas
Wes
Widows on Pension Rolls Reach Thirty One Names
Government pension rolls list 29 widows receiving $100 or more monthly. Senate bills proposed to add $100 to the widows of Generals Banks and Thomas L. Crittenden, expanding the list to 31. Most beneficiaries are widows of distinguished army and navy officers. Some widows receive $166 monthly.
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House
Senate
Generals Banks
Thomas L. Crittenden
Hst
Widows Receive Pension Payouts for Civil War Generals
The widows of Generals Logan, McClellan, Fremont, Cook and FP Blair and Mrs. Philip H. Sheridan and Mrs. David D. Porter get 208 dollars monthly, while the two living widows of presidents Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield receive 416 dollars monthly, or about 5,000 dollars a year.
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Logan, McClellan
Fremont
Cook
FP. Blair
Philip H. Sheridan
David D. Porter
Grant
Garfiald
Woman's Era and kitchen common sense in home health
The piece argues the era should center on sensible kitchen work. Helen HL Preston in Womankind contends that better home cooking would reduce diseases like typhoid fever and curb male intemperance. It criticizes flawed economy in households and urges awaking to shared domestic responsibility.
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Helen HL Preston
Womankind
Cooking Soirees Take Paris by Fashionable Storm
Paris Letter notes that cooking soirees are the latest fad among fashionable women in Paria. Frenchwomen are praised for natural cooking skill and dainty grace, turning cooking into a social art with a bar-like setup in drawing rooms where guests are served savory dishes.
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Paria
Miss Susan B Anthony on suffrage and liberty
Miss Susan B Anthony argues that women have achieved local suffrage in over 10 000 communities and partial rights in more than ten states, and states the final relic of subjugation must be removed to achieve perfect liberty and equality.
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Susan B. Anthony
Ten Hour Law Violation Tied to Brooklyn Officers, Not Company
New York Attorney General Hancock denies action to vacate the Brooklyn Heights railroad charter. He finds the ten hour labor law violations, if any, were committed by officers rather than the corporation, and says proofs must be legally established before any charter annulment or removal of Presidents Lewis and Norton. Further investigation may revisit the case.
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Brooklyn
Amany, N
Hancock
Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company
Lewis
Brooklyn Heig! Railroad
Norton
Atlantic Avenue Railroad
Pouipisiey
Siamese French clashes on Mekong. officer wounded
Difficulties have arisen between Siamese and French along the Mekong river left bank. Disturbances occurred with a clash involving Siamese people and a French detachment in which a French officer was severely wounded. Flambeau benefit tonight. 500
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Mekong River
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General Notes OF Society
Demorest
Sarah Bernhardt
France
Sarah
Buckien
J. K. Jones
Palmer
Hamilton
North Topeka
Associated Charities
Kock Island
Td.w. Grand Lodge
Wichita
Rock Island City
Texas
Tex
Piambeah
Tonight Lie
Kinetoscops
Cossrast Tigorte
Iry, Wm, E Vanderbilt
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Kinetoscope
Peerless
Stea Laundry
Rights OF Women
Flambeau
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