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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1897
Page
8
The Thompson Brothers advertise their store as overflowing with new and choice furniture. They claim to offer the prettiest, finest, and best pieces at lower prices, urging customers to visit to appreciate the stock gathered for daily shipments and floor filling effects.
Antique oak chamber suit described with long dressing mirror serpentine front and sides two action drawers a bone drawer and a deep dresser drawer. Normal price listed above at twenty dollars but offered here for sixteen dollars.
Oak ch?ffoniers with French oval and square mir yon. It has five and six drawers with ample room and style. The last of them is offered at a low price now. Replacement costs are uncertain as prices are at least one third below market.
Oriental Screens with gold thread storks and grain on dark cloth draw buyers. Baby Carriages arrive in a large assortment with patent features, offered at unusually low prices to early buyers. White enamel iron beds priced from five to thirty dollars, with several midrange options.
The text promotes a broad selection of cases and furnishings. It invites readers to purchase bank stripes and intellectual property paraphernalia, promising a large choice in tuck cases, furniture, matted items, window shades, and curtains at popular prices. It emphasizes accessibility to wealth through scholarly and luxurious goods.
Mrs Cleveland and her children prepare for relocation to Princeton as personal effects depart from the Washington residence. The presidential occupancy is being readied for Mr Cleveland’s departure on March 4. Mrs Cleveland plans to accompany him on a Washington tour in the interim.
Ex Senator James Shearer describes a secret stockyard system where a dominant trade council fixes prices and blocks shippers. He says owners lose control over cattle sales, with a cadre of captains enforcing boycotts and strict rules, threatening legal action and market ruin for dissenters.
A Topeka sale advertises an 8 AM to 10 PM window tomorrow for heavy discounts on men’s suits and furnishings. The push promises record-breaking price cuts on shirts, collars, ties, underwear, and hundreds of suits from Ettlinger, with windup prices clearly stated. The ad emphasizes refunds for unused goods and loud claims of the event’s exceptional value.
Etlinger and Bu Unner announce a windup sale on youths suits and pants with heavy discounts. Youths jackets 6 to 3 dollars, pants 3 to 5.50, extra fine 3 to 4-button cutaway sacks offered at 7.50, promising best garb value in the city and inviting shoppers to judge the goods.
An old sale notice advertises Ettlinger and Unger boy and youth suits in navy blue, cassimere, and cheviots with windup prices. It lists sizes from 4 to 16 and 30 to 32 inch waists, promoting substantial discounts off regular prices.
An old advertisement touts heavy discounts on men’s trousers and spring overcoats. It lists multiple price cuts from high original tags to windup sale prices, highlighting Ettlinger and Ettinger brands across cheviots, cassimeres, and worsteds, with aggressively reduced figures and a final claim of unbeatable value for financing customers.
Ettlinger offers a wind up sale on hats including Fedora and fur styles for men and boys. Prices range from 25 to 40 cents for various shapes, with Stetson and other fine hats advertised as discounted. Hundreds of hats in stock with extensive price reductions noted.
Topeka residents debate a market house and auditorium in Topeka Kansas with calls for a dedicated domestic economy building funded by state appropriations. Prof Waller supports a larger budget noting basements and inadequate facilities for expanding women’s instruction and postgraduate work at the state agricultural college. Substantive figures and bids are discussed alongside commercial notices offering spectacles and Beecham’s Pills.
In Topeka the impoverished shoemaker George Wenter died and was buried in a costly casket despite presumed poverty. A box with 900 dollars was found on his body, admin Strauss objected to the expensive coffin, undertaker claimed the private burial proceeded with few attendees, and the estate awaits settlement and potential heirs.
Attorney W P F Schoch petitions county commissioners to release Albert Lindsay held on an assault charge after Lindsay and Henry Jordan were arrested. Jordan case dismissed. Lindsay fined $15 with costs listed as $83.90. Schoch claims Jordan costs were misapplied to Lindsay, raising questions of court clerical error and possible habeas corpus action forthcoming. Also notes Grand Lodge meeting in Salina and Union Pacific fare sale from Topeka and Kansas City.
Cincinnati February 19 Sheriff Plummer received death warrants for Jackson and Walling in the Pearl Bryan murder case directing execution between sunrise and sunset on the work day of March. Two executions may follow, with four men appointed to guard and watch the condemned to prevent escapes. Separate notices include excursion rates to Washington for the presidential inauguration via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with travel options, timings, and Pullman sleeping cars. Special Santa Fe train advertised for Strong City February 21.
Articles filed in New Jersey show Marsden company authorized for 50 million dollars to manufacture and sell products from corn stalks. Incorporators listed include John Willems and Richard Bitte. Capital stock begins at 10 thousand dollars paid in. Epidemic of grip in Philadelphia noted as severe with 64 thousand affected.
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