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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1895
Page
8
A montage of comic and dramatic clippings. A red dressed girl declares the world hollow after learning her fiancé Dan plans one last meeting before the wedding while Jim’s arrival with roses upends the ruse. A maid of honor Myra helps the lovers, leading to a cruel double deception.
A quirky dialogue unfolds as Kitten asks Dog about friends on B toot. Dog replies that he feels ignored and worries about being blown off, expressing a mix of frustration and wary tone.
A Chicago Inter Ocean item recalls a Dearborn Street market wagon where two roosters fought amid loud bets and taunts. Spectators noted the birds' duel while a vendor’s farm joke about mothers’ love circulated, ending with a quip about a woman’s influence after a brief exchange on a separate note.
A collage of brief quips and sketches from newspapers recounts lighthearted vignettes. A man braces for a dentist visit while strangers offer sympathy and quips, a collector looms over a bill, and a playful exchange about names and manners adds local color to the page.
A satirical verse in the Louisville Courier Journal riffs on fashion anxieties and society's judgment. The speaker weighs blooming skirts and the risk of wardrobe mishaps against society’s gaze and the desire for self-expression.
A tense scene in Haysten parlor shows Gregory and Amelia at the peak of their eighteenth quarrel. He offers a dress in exchange for quiet, she smirks, and their clash ends with Amelia taking her own life after a bitter exchange. Amid tears, Gregory asserts they have nothing to quarrel about.
Excerpted headlines and dialogue depict a staged fire in a building with a potionman shouting fire and bystanders reacting. Amid the turmoil a hired girl haggles escape as guests drop everything for safety. The scene shifts to a family exchange about noises, doors, and anxious planning, interwoven with street curiosities.
A fragmented dialogue piece presents Wynham wandering through woods and grappling with direction. A beleaguered narrator questions certainty as a man hesitates, while a domestic quip reveals strained humor from Life magazine style snippets about marriage and choice of partners.
Harper's Magazine outlines in 1895 new fiction by Thomas Hardy The Simpletons with the December 1894 issue and ongoing through November 1895 Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Louis de Conte a Charleston and the Carolinas illustrated feature northern Africa as a major topic eight Chinese Life stories by Julian Ralph and the first chapters of a three part novelette by Richard Harding Davis are planned plus complete short stories. Subscriptions and binding options including postpaid delivery and illustrated prospectus are offered with payment by post office money order or draft.
A litho water color of the famous twenty hour train between Chicago and New York along the Lake Shore route is offered for ten cents. Send to C K Wilber Western Passenger Agent Chicago. Also closing out line of Gold Coin and Stewart stoves at cost due to store room rental at Maniox She rpox 70 Kansas Ave.
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