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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
6
A long society report describes multiple Topeka homes hosting Leap Year gatherings. George M. Noble’s Harriot Street mansion, Quinton residence, Low home, and others welcomed guests with decorated rooms, flowers, tea, wafers, and favors. Guests included notable local figures and visiting friends, with musicians, formal receptions, and souvenir tokens marking the events.
Flowers and plants decorated the roods as Mrs Slaughter hosted at Fourteenth and Monroe. Councilman Roundtree Nat Sawyer Pred Hedge and Robert Turner formed the receiving party. The home was adorned with blooms and refreshments were served to about two hundred callers.
A Baltimore financial insider recounts how the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad arranged $4 million to cover January interest on bonds and preferred stock. After initial Morgan & Co. backing was conditional on a full property audit, General Louis Fitzgerald and a new board director raised the funds, now deposited in New York and ready for use.
Mrs Shermus and her husband, shoemaker from 120 East Sixth Street, were beaten by four men at the corner of Sixth Street and Quincy Avenue after leaving a shop. Both suffered facial injuries. Dolly Dahlgren was briefly detained but released. The assailants fled. police sought the suspects.
A 43 year old man named Ned Cummins, a Grand Juror summonsed for the panel, was found drunk on Kenes Avenue near a well on Dover area. He was taken to the station where $160.43 was found, including $100 in five twenty gold pieces, and he pleaded guilty this morning after checks were given back all but $6. The incident occurred around 749 o'clock, with local police reporting the discovery among nearby thugs.
P. Sheerin secretary of the Democratic national committee received five city applications to host the Democratic national convention. Chicago New York St Louis San Francisco and Cincinnati vie with reported hints favoring Chicago or Cincinnati. He refused to pick a site before a committee meeting to decide the time and place.
Arturo Si, manager of the Monterey & Mexican Gulf railroad, with Southern Pacific officials led by President G P Huntington, visited Las Antoxis Texas on January 2 to discuss sale or lease of the Monterey & Mexican Gulf route, a long pursued objective by SP.
The National Council of the Welsh United States condemned President Cleveland's Venezuelan policy as un-American and unworthy of Welsh support. Resolutions, drawn and signed by ex-Postmaster L. James, urge adherence to the Monroe Doctrine and favor a line between Venezuela and Great Britain. In other news, Under Sheriff Tom Wilkerson captured Joe Coats in St Joseph and tracked him toward Jefferson City to secure requisition papers. A forged check for 27.50 by Conia was linked to a John Pier sale weeks earlier. Also advertised are Original Love Romances and a Library Hall program with artistic colored illustrations priced 50 cents and 69 cents.
Special correspondent recalls a first ball gown of white illusion and camellias, describing how its memory lingers with joy. The piece contrasts past and present styles, noting pearly fabrics, lace, sashes, and a parade of debutante gowns at teas and receptions, including velvet, brocade, and duchess satin ensembles.
A Vogue excerpt notes a New York judge opposing mixed clubs as modeled on men’s social clubs while supporting women’s rights. It recalls 1840s activists Susan B Anthony and Lucretia Mott, discusses decades of legal reform to grant property and earnings rights, and credits women with advancing liberty amid male opposition and pride.
A San Francisco police justice ruled that knickerbockers are a male clothing item, barring a woman arraigned for wearing them while wheeling. The municipal ordinance bans dress not belonging to one’s sex, and the judge suggested bloomers would pass if looser. Bloomers in the city must be baggy, the decision implies.
Professor Woodworth of Michigan Agricultural College argues electricity can weed farms as cheaply as salt. He proposes dragging hanging wires over weed patches with a storage battery, aiming to destroy thistles to the root and clear land.
A church debate over raffles ends with plans to sell tickets without prizes at a fair. Dr Bremner of Toronto is to establish a South American Evangelical Mission home in Buenos Ayres or Montevideo to train candidates for service across Uruguay Paraguay Argentina and Bolivia.
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