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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1896
Page
6
Topeka social scene showcases gatherings across Topeka and nearby communities. Featured are informal parties, club events, and charitable functions with attendance from prominent residents and members of society circles.
Topeka society page records a busy spell with Mrs Eugene Hagan hosting a dinner at the Topeka club, followed by Oxford club attendance and watch meetings. Club officers to be elected January 13. Numerous guests and visitors cited, plus a sequence of tea, dinners, and dancing events at homes of Sharam, Jamison, and others. Included are notes on theater plans, opera trips, and several social teas and progressive parties.
A streetboy in Milwaukee demonstrates quick wit to salvage a lost hat from Wisconsin Avenue and Water Street, agreeing to a salvage fee only after testing the shopkeeper’s offer. The items include humorous quips about aristocratic hens and a baby show, with assorted snippets from Turn-of-the-Century papers.
The piece surveys luxury hotel living in New York, detailing daily costs at the Plaza, Waldorf, Holland House, and Savoy. It notes suites for duchesses and tycoons, rooms from six to eight hundred weekly, varying plans, and the English service at Holland House. It closes with the warning that only well-heeled guests can sustain such life.
Special correspondent reports Taral, world’s premier rider, predicts better racing this season at Morrin Park Sheepshead and Brooklyn tracks. He praises the half mile stretch, mentions ride for Marcus Daly next year, and notes Henry of Navarre as the grandest horse. Taral, born in Peoria, spends winters in Atlanta and plans training at Daly’s Long Branch stables.
A young lawyer recalls the grim misery of a divorce case with German clients and a former coachman, noting a chilling calm before the violence. The narrative preserves courtroom tone as the attorney contemplates collusion and moral limits amid a volatile scene.
A nostalgic verse fragment recounts a wooing scene on a stairway where a fair, frill adorned lady descends at twilight. The speaker recalls a lost heart a year ago, bewitched by her face and smile as she stands in lace and frill, a scene of longing and unspoken love.
Lawrence Jan 1 It was believed two men were roaming Maple Grove cemetery near Lawrence last week at o clock peering into a grave where a wall was being dug for a youth who died only hours earlier of diphtheria. Neighbors heard the alarm and rushed out.
Sheriff Hindman reports Clint Osbon the Gretman admitted going to the pen with a clear conscience and felt no guilt. J A Polley reports RoC. Darnell arrested for allegedly assaulting Polley’s young son as authorities prepare to try the case before Justice Graver. The notice ends with local business ads for Peerless Steam Laundry and a cigar promotion.
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