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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1899
Page
8
Do not ask us why we are selling the balance of our Spring and Summer stock. We will sell at the regular lowest retail cost with a reasonable deduction to your groceries and meats. Clerks handle the sale and the cashier deducts the difference between selling price and cost.
A Great Clearance Sale continues with wholesale cost pricing promising big savings. Shoppers are urged to grab limited quantities as prices dip on assorted items. The promotion emphasizes clearances and potential handover of savings to customers.
One week begins next Saturday with the sale. Pending this sale premium cards will not be punched. The note cites affordability and commits that no goods will be charged during the sale.
S Barnum Dry Goods and Carpet Co offers a broad sale with limited exceptions. Spool cotton, bleached and brown muslins, prints, and apron ginghams are sold at cost at all times.
A fragment notes the Lake Shore Limited to Boston offering luxuries and conveniences for Boston and New England passengers with an extra charge. It mentions representatives in Kansas City and mentions publishers and railway ads. The text also references Peerless Steam Laundry and Rebkupt's factory with incomplete details and addresses.
Waverly Ohio July 17 Legrand Byington of Jens now 90 and resident of Jews City Te says he renounced his citizenship due to disapproval of the administration. A former Topeka luminary and state legislator he was famed as a crank and extremist with a career as lawyer businessman and writer of political pieces.
Kansas City mills suspend operations after a Topeka and rail committee vote ends preferential handling for certain grain owners. Elevators hold 1,148,000 bushels of wheat and 14,000 of corn as freight rates from Topeka and Lawrence to St. Louis rise to 14 and 9 cents per 100 pounds, stirring disputes over fair competition with nearby towns and renewed attempts to regain favorable terms.
At Cha tauqua on July 17 Rev. Charles M. Sheldon faced a question box session. He answered a barrage of inquiries with thoughtful, intelligible responses, though some topics bordered on blasphemy.
A speaker led a discussion on hypothetical tests of Jesus behavior in everyday life. Questions touched on dress, streetcar conduct, deception, churchgoing norms, public figures, and a race with journalistic controversy, prompting personal reflections among attendees.
Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson stays in Seattle for days to gather farmer information and promote a Pacific trade expansion. He argues the coast will become a major market for butter and tin, with Manila already ready to buy vast Washington production and a broader push toward China Japan and the Philippines. He predicts a new era of self governance for the Philippines after military action and vows to back McKinley administration policy while visiting the Pacific coast states to push agricultural projects.
The War Department reports several deaths from dysentery typhoid and wounds during active duty. Names include James J Higkins corporal 11th Infantry Tadwle Po Mohiin Michael Sullivan August Nolte John Quinlan and Frank A Duval among others with dates from June to July and locations such as Nagasaki and Colorado units noted.
New witnesses reported in a case involving alleged illegal chemical compounding. Names such as Martford, Conn and Marlton surface among testimonies about compounds including antimony and mercury. Proceedings describe punishments and actions tied to a failed trial, with references to suspects and locations vague due to OCR damage.
Norfolk witnesses describe Mrs Maybrick as innocent of poisoning her husband and allege he habitually used arsenic for nerves. Jeweler C F Greenwood recalls a Norfolk visit and a tablet labeled arsenic, claim Maybrick drank pills to ease nerves and that public affidavit shifts blame away from her.
Nebraska town marshal Michael Steinffer t searches Steinhauer for Mrs Schmidt who eloped with Catholic priest Father Rhinehart. They were tracked to Omaha via a box mailed to Father Sturm. Governor's requisition may lead to arrest. Father Rhinehart faces possible church discipline after confession to Father Sturm.
Washington July 17 The mint director George B Roberts returns from a west tour praising prosperity across the farms and cities He notes abundant crops firm employment and ample money in the region He says western banks compete for Chicago paper at low rates and that money flows east to Europe for higher interest
New York reports detail plans for the Paris exposition of 1960. United States commissioners reveal naval models from Maine to Olympia and Dewey’s flag. American unions plan demonstrations and displays. BR Sherman unveils a gigantic umbrella over 460 feet tall with cars on each rib to shuttle riders to the lip and back.
Mrs Helen L Bullock, a national organizer of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, urges a wartime drive against root beer at a Chicago meeting held in her honor. She says all root beers are dangerous refreshment and calls for vigorous action against the drink despite home brewing.
Fragmentary report says smallpox forces closure of a church in Frankfort with vaccination orders issued. Forty patients are under care and relocated to county penitentiary facilities. many more remain affected.
A veteran recalls a night at a Cuban brigade camp when Brigadier General Miles nearly burned alive after his bed box caught fire. The sentry, Evan Miles of the First Infantry, acted quickly to smother the flames as wind kept the second officer unaware. The incident ends with the general’s gratitude and a resolve to keep warmer fires.
The St Louis Republic notes an ancient Grandfather clock owned by James Crabb of Olney Illinois. The timepiece rests in the Crabb residence hall and embodies a veteran’s calm after years of travel and wartime service. Its steel works mark a historic linkage to early Mississippi valley industry and Daniel Boone’s era.
A broad public interest grows around Grapes Nuts the new food by Postum Cereal Co claiming its starch from wheat and barley turns into grape sugar in the body aiding digestion and energy. The expert notes heat moisture and time drive nature’s process to produce a food closely matched to human needs and tastes.
A historical clock built by the Crabb family in Elston Kentucky stands as an accurate relic from the era. The Horologe, two heavy weights, and a cherrywood case, survived Morgan’s raid and a sacking, with two bullets lodged in its timbers. The clock’s journey crossed to Olney after the Civil War, where it remains a symbol of craft and endurance.
The piece recalls Tom Edison facing his first payment for the ticker device after presenting it to a telegraph company president. Edison sought $5,000 for the invention when money was tight, and the president urged examination of the model before deciding. Harriet Beecher Stowe is also mentioned as a parallel case of misunderstanding money from royalties.
A garbled excerpt discusses an insect census and classification, mentioning good and indifferent insects, and the role of insects as scavengers. It references plants, letters, and antiguos authorities, debating whether some insects are rightly termed good or bad and pondering their impact on vegetation and agriculture with vague, partially legible phrases.
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