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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1897
Page
7
Ino F McBlianus and Popular Price Tailors advertise ready to wear trousers starting at three dollars. The short notice emphasizes affordable men’s clothing options and a focus on economy for shoppers seeking budget apparel.
In Grand Rapids Michigan yesterday a drunken melee outside a saloon left two assailants and several officers injured. Officers Viersiver Harrington and Treadwell faced threats as revolvers and beer bottles were used. Treadwell sustained a facial injury. Harrington was struck and left with a broken nose. Patrols arrived, shot injuries reported, and one man later died from complications while another remained gravely hurt with likely nonfatal wounds.
London theater announces John Sleeper Clarke has engaged Florence Gerard widow of Henry B. Abbey as leading lady. Production features The Prodigal Father and Home Sweet Home with George Alexander presenting Lorenzaccio. Filia Wetteon to play Sarah Bernhardt’s part in the revival.
Tdindto Ohio Jan 2 The coffee war heats up as Arbuckle's responds to Woolson Co price cuts. Arbuckle's counters by pledging to keep prices under their rival at any cost, amid a price-cutting battle in the coffee market.
Eugene Ridgeway, the last of four men in the November 27 electric car robbery plot between Kansas City and Independence, is arrested at Centropolis and jailed. Leader Oscar Bridges was captured after a struggle with motormen. Ernest Ridgeway and James Repine were nabbed at Leavenworth. Ridgeway, 21, surrendered in Oklahoma then returned home. A preliminary hearing set. trial likely soon.
The Herald despatch from Rio reports Brazil selling cruiser Almirant Barrasso to Japan and accepting an American coal supply for the navy. A Campos district clash between focal police and federal troops over elections left many dead or wounded, as Acting President Perera contemplates executive action and possible cabinet changes. President Mornes may resume office amid the crisis.
This week in England and France reports springlike conditions with mild temperatures. London notes a warm spell with 30 degrees in the shade, while on the continent foreland areas and coastal boulevards show crowds in cafes. Meanwhile the Riviera and Algeria experience unusually cold nights with readings under 46 degrees.
A Manila dispatch reports that an hour before his execution the Philippine rebel Dr Jose Rizal married Miss Josephine Firacken, of Irish Filipino parentage. Rizal renounced Masonry and other secret societies in his final letter to his brother, while his widow disputed the charges against him.
The Semi-Weekly Tribune announces a new 16 page colored pictorial supplement titled Twinkles to be issued with every Friday issue. Twinkles offers jokes gossip and political cartoons and is free only to subscribers who remit the $2 annual rate directly to The Tribune. Those who do not remit will not receive the supplement.
Harper's Weekly marks forty years of publication and outlines plans for 1887. It highlights editorial aims, serials, new stories, cartoons, and departments, including Mary E Wilkins stories, an uprising tale by EP Benson, and John Kenrick Banga sequels. Harper & Brothers invites subscriptions with postage to subscribers in the United States and Canada.
Scribner's Magazine outlines a 1897 feature lineup with London scenes by Gideon, a new Richard Harding Davis novel Soldiers of Fortune, and illustrated pieces on business, universities, Japan and China since the war, women and reform, travel guides, and four short stories by George W. Cable. It highlights Undergraduate Life in American Colleges, Howells as a playwright, and paying booklet details from Charles Scribner's Sons.
Fragmentary quotation notes that Americans cannot effectively inform themselves on subjects that capture public attention month to month, referencing a North America review.
The North American Review profiles its mission to cover topics in morals politics science literature business finance industrial economy social and municipal affairs. It touts a roster of leading contributors and claims a distinguished role shaping public opinion as a family magazine with attention to women’s interests.
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