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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
6
Local ad offers low prices on pantry staples and household goods. Items include Santos roast coffee, evaporated milk substitutes, pancake flours, Aunt Jemima products, coconut oil soap, sugar syrup, molasses, sugar cured hams, and tea products, with contact for prompt attention.
A short note urges shoppers not to pay more for flour elsewhere, claiming our prices are consistently the cheapest for all kinds of flour and related groceries.
Mrs W C Edwards presided at a thimble party on Pilittore street with Mrs A B Woolverton Mrs Albert Latham Mrs W D Gossett and many guests. Music by Miss Perle Latham Miss Geesie Burnham and Miss Carol Edwards complemented rooms lush with roses carnations and plants. Guests included numerous Topeka residents and officials plus Gov Palmer and others attending a subsequent informal party hosted by Mrs H M Hadley and Mrs Charles Wardin on Clay street.
R. B. Henderson of Houston Texas is listed alongside Mia in a regional notice detailing a transaction or agreement involving local parties and relocation plans. The brief entry names the individuals and their location, signaling a formal business or legal action within the Houston area.
In Topeka a room on Kansas avenue contains about 40 000 pounds of butter from the National Creamery convention. Butter from Maine to California is shipped to Topeka for secret judging. Tubes are numbered and entries kept in a private book. Testing of the best butter begins Saturday.
A Yokohama dispatch summarizes a Japan Times leading editorial warning that eastern tensions threaten an explosion if Japan cannot secure funds by May 3 to pay the debt owed by China. The commentary suggests China’s failure to raise money could trigger a dramatic shift in the crisis.
The International Press League elected P. C. Borie of Oil City Pennsylvania as president and P. J. Hawley of New York as vice president. George W. Peck of Milwaukee was named second vice president, Henry Rishmer of New Orleans third vice president, C Frank Rice of Boston secretary, and James S McCartney of Philadelphia treasurer. Directors include TJ Keenan John Ryder Mrs O Donoelle D H A Chamberlain F Madeira Dr J H Fredericks A B DeFrecce Armand Capdevielle and Leland Williamson. Ithmore will host the next meeting.
Fire at National Wall Paper company building on Pennsylvania avenue near Ninth street started about 1 30 and authorities say the entire city fire department is fighting the blaze. Loss to building and stock is reported at 125000 with later figures placing stock loss at 25000 and the blaze controlled after the names were confined to the bulleite.
Folio of cut price items including Lanterns 49¢ each, Japanned coal hods, watering cans at low cents, wood wringers, patent bottom wash boilers, and Mrs Potts sad irons. Includes pillowcases 26x40 26x45 sheets and a vast array of enamel ware, screws, stove mats, and shoes at marked discounts.
The document quotes the annual financials of the National Aid Association with receipts, expenses, mortuary and funeral funds, plus an auditing committee note from Topeka Kansas dated February 14, 1898. It also reports authorities arresting W H Watson in Topeka on forgery charges and Walter Clemens arrested for intoxicating liquor sales. brief local notices about Courtneys and a Diet Cassarets ad conclude the page.
A jumble from Topeka society life and public notices includes plans for a 25-member Boston Pullman trip to the National Creamery convention, civil service exams on March 25, and local court mentions. Also notes about a Santa Fe watchman incident, a card party report, and a sanitary ad for Bly's Cream Balm.
Wheat opened lower amid yesterday s heavy liquidation then steadied as news influenced prices. Argentine shipmen reached 1 235 000 bushels and affected Liverpool and Paris markets. Northwestern receipts were light with 27 Chicago cars. a cold wave predicted to uncover winter wheat belts.
An ad offers white blank wallpaper with a matching border, suitable for about 15 square feet, priced at 56 cents per roll.
Market gossip shows provisions and hogs firm and mixed grain prices with active buying. Cattle receipts at 11 335 with steady to slow sales and hogs forecast for tomorrow amid varied bids. oats and barley steady to active. wheat futures and Liverpool close noted with mixed signals.
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