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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1896
Page
8
A dense grocery advertisement touts deep discounts and broad stock. It highlights sugars from refiners, Lima beans, rice, sorghum, syrups, butter, hams, bacon, canned goods, fruits, vegetables, and baked goods with emphasis on value and satisfaction, inviting customers to trade and buy tomorrow.
Gr lb cans California Table Fruit ten cents per can and $1.15 per dozen. We have added a Fresh Meat Department and will only handle the best of everything in that line. It will pay you to buy your meats from us. We guarantee that out of town orders sent to us will be filled satisfactorily and shipped promptly.
J S Sproat former proprietor of the Model Supply Store writes to the State Journal defending his methods and asking for an unprejudiced court hearing. He disputes claims about stock appraisals and forged representations, and says he will face charges only under oath in court. He notes delays before grand jury and references to a mortgagee taking possession.
The notice lists Wichita and return service from Topeka with a 1 10 p m departure and 6 35 p m arrival, through sleepers on night trains. A second Topeka departure at 10 00 p m arrives Wichita by 4 00 a m. Rock Inland agent A M Fouien is the city passenger agent for further information.
A miscellaneous Topeka area wire captures a patchwork of county life. W. E. Dom becomes county jail engineer while ex policeman Washburn drives a baker’s wagon. Shawnee county school population tallies 16 298, two juries sit in district court, and county jail grounds undergo improvements. State events include Populist committee talks, Elks theater plans, and a hospital bill audit. Names like J K Larimer, H C Smith, Charles Curtis, and P I Bons appear amid civic notes, politics, culture, and local commerce.
A station agent in Cancun City markets a live bear to a brawler who pays twenty dollars for six shots. The bear remains unfazed as the man fails to kill it and telegraphs home he started to slay a savage west monster but was thwarted. The scene shifts to a melancholic householder breaking bread with hardship, then a New York anecdote about a man’s stumble down stairs while seeking a “good time” with lost coat and mislaid watch.
An aging tramp recalls losing money to petty theft and gambling in New York. He recounts being bumped from place to place, being briefed by cops on town and country options, and finally facing a judge who sentences him to nine months in county jail for seeking work in New Jersey. The piece preserves a wary urban voice and streetwise humor amid hardship.
A disbelieving Poor Commissioner Hale recounts a supposed case of a sick man, noting a “gick racket” and his plan to assign work on the county stone pile. The piece shifts to art and literature notes, including Cyprus glass colors, Mrs. Alexander’s hymn, Nile floods, and local notices about deaths, theaters, and businesses.
Fragmented OCR notes describe Great Rock trend trains with Topeka departures at 1 10 am and 10 50 pm arriving Wichita at 6 40 pm and 6 39 am respectively. Text is garbled but indicates a timetable style report for Topeka to Wichita service and mentions fog and island event.
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