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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1896
Page
8
The Star Grocery promotes wholesale prices across a wide range of items including Finest Sugar at 1.00, New Orleans and California fruits and canned goods, coffee, flour, butter, syrups, maple products, dried fruits, and meats. The ad emphasizes lower prices with guaranteed quality and retail quantities at wholesale rates.
Weather delays push planning for charity drive as Tops and Ingleside Indies prepare to assign 40 districts and select visitors. Meeting notes indicate district visitors have set fees, with a likely start next week for clothing and provisions distribution.
The Kansas Court of Appeals in Concordia ruled the A O U W insurance must be paid to a claimant Frederic A Hose who died in Ottawa county for in default on assessments. The district court had upheld the grand lodge but the appeals court ordered payment, a unanimous decision.
A letter from E V Debs aide claims Debs will resign the presidency and win his labor fight or die trying. The York County report cites a strictly trustworthy source amid other notices about a wealthy man’s widow and expenses, plus political commentary on German doctrine and upcoming battles.
Chief Wilkerson and Officer Balsch investigated grave robbing rumors after two medical students left a house in a spring wagon at 7 30. They followed, returned to town, and together with other officers patrolled cemeteries through the night but found no disturbed graves. The search ended with belief the students may have secured a corpse from a local cemetery.
Local notes report visits and returns by residents and friends from St Joseph Louisiana and Gardner Kansas. A Kansas Avenue revival at M E church reports fifty conversions over three weeks. A Canada goose weighing fourteen pounds was shot near Silver Lake. Local businesses advertise grocery, restaurant, and buggy services. A birthday party honors Miss Mabel Skinner with many young friends.
A dispatch from Osborne Isle of Wight says the Queen and Princess Beatrice spent a bad night and their health is affected by the shock of Prince Henry of Battenburg’s death. The prince’s remains will be interred at Windsor with ceremonial similar to the Duke of Albany’s burial in 1834. The Topeka-area ad and patent medicine notices conclude this reading.
In 1899 on an east end lot two winds clash as a relentless cold wave drives life indoors. Snow piles, chimneys puff, and a gray whiskered man watches a Greco African wrestling scene begin while households brace for deep frost and a distant meeting.
A wandering man misplaces trust in strangers after giving $10 to a bartender thinking him honest. A Chicago excerpt shows the misjudged elder chasing a counterfeit trust and learning a harsh lesson about urban fakirs amid a string of urban vignettes and quick quips from city life.
A February letter from a minister describes heart affection and nervous prostration easing after taking Dr Miles Heart Cure. He credits the remedy with revived energy, enabling longer revival work and nightly preaching without suffering, and notes satisfaction with the guarantee on first bottle.
Barper's Magazine reveals December 1805 to May 1806 fiction includes Barper's cow novel Briseis by Wreerass Buack, a Martian by Groxan Dr Mavariza, The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc continuation, a Tom SawyerDetectives novelette by Mark Tai, and works by many noted authors.
Notice from Harper and Brothers of P Q Box New York Cit. advertising periodicals and subscription services with reference to available publications and contact details.
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