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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1896
Page
5
Genuine bargain notice advertising a wide range of shoes for infants children misses and ladies with patent tips valet toes and square toes. Includes men s dress shoes in cap toe plain toe and styles with various tips. Prices stated as low as 1.24 to 2.97.
Five prisoners in the city jail refuse meals, drawing a bare bread diet and boiled water after being fined for vagrancy. A mall carrier Boutwell faces court for assault on a neighbor and attempts to skip bail. Hank Trowbridge, released New Year’s Eve, returns to jail as he drinks again. Knucks possession lands William Brown a five dollar fine. Other briefs note sheriff-elect Kepley’s street venture, frozen river, and upcoming January sessions.
A Topeka gossip of public officials and society reports Judge G W Clark on appellate matters and Governor quarters work. Notes include Rev B Smith to Cincinnati, Topeka women and marriage offers, Judge Spillman salary, GA R post in Oregon MO, Topeka educator certificates, and local scuttlebutt about theater figures and St Joseph Gazettes Trilby review.
Governor Morrill rejects claims he will refuse renomination before the state Republican convention. He asserts the administration has enacted valuable reforms and deserves Republican support. Time will show what unfolds in the next six months as the party weighs its path.
Accused grave robber M E B Lowe remains jailed as District Judge Hazan refused a habeas corpus writ. Hearing occurred late evening with the judge declining relief. Lowe returned to jail for the district court term. The narrative includes unrelated cartoon and local notices about Topeka lodge officers installation and various anecdotes.
City to begin immediate asphalt repairs under Mayor Fellows order with contractor J W Shaffer at seventy five cents per square yard. Work to target worst sections on Kansas Avenue using surface heater from Kansas City, limited to 30 this month, and postponed extensive winter work. Fire, rail, and staff notes follow with personnel shifts and equipment overhauls in Santa Fe and Rock Island lines across Topeka and nearby depots.
In Wixrrero Kansas on January 3 Willie Wilson thirteen year old son of Mr and Mrs M J Wilson drowned after breaking through ice on Dutch creek while skating around 11 am The incident is reported from a local corner residence at Fifth Avenue and Harter Street The record includes miscellaneous ad copy and notices from the era about colic remedies and a Cooper Quartet impersonator noted in the page blurbs.
Weekly report of patents granted to Kansas citizens through J F Beale solicitor of patents. Listings include collar fastener by Jos T Richmond Anthony one dump and elevator by Geo B Jams Chetope and a baling press. Also notes on Peerless Steam Laundry and a K of P hall event in early January 1886 with a public installation of officers and entertainment.
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