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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1895
Page
8
Snapshot notes report Rain Water Maker praised for softening hard water and preventing color run in prints. It claims to protect fabrics and utensils with little soap, and is advertised as a must for bathing and cleaning, with grocers carrying the product.
Preparations mount to send 20,000 infantry 1,250 cavalry 1,200 artillery and 1,000 engineers from Spain to Havana. The government aims to mobilize the First Infantry and will seek Cortes approval in the near term. The report notes a sizable free offer from the Topeka Steam Laundry in a separate column.
A circus ostrich in Sells' twelve-strong flock wintering at River Front Park died after swallowing a loose chain found near the pen. Despite castor oil and remedies, the bird collapsed, lay prone, and expired within about thirty minutes after the chain was ingested. The incident followed curiosity and a rapid chain-eating spree by the bird.
The article describes the Great Wall of China, begun by Chehwangdi of the Tsin dynasty in 249 B C, built to deter invasions. It details its double-wall construction, earth fill, granite foundations, battlements, towers, and wide top for six horsemen. A survey of a Chinese railroad measured the wall at eighteen feet high and thirteen hundred miles long, noting its reach across mountains, rivers, swamps, and plains and the enormous amount of material.
A man and his reluctant parrot lead to a wild scene as the bird is abused for failing to say uncle. In a yard coop with thirty chickens the parrot survives and continues to demand the phrase while the chickens are killed. Also noted is the death of Mamie Herrick aged three in Topeka with burial set for this afternoon. A free laundry offer appears in another column.
Stories about Dad Griffith a popular Santa Fe conductor on the Topeka to St Joe line. The piece chronicles how he earned the nickname Dad, a tale starting in Lawrenceburg Indiana and ending with a prank on a westbound train. Also notes on wheat crop reports and routine railroad chatter from the Santa Fe system.
A reader letter defends Mattie Ellison and denounces police and public scorn for a woman accused of crime. Ellison contends she was never arrested for the $130 theft, disputes Gardiner and Wilkerson’s accounts, and laments society’s harsher judgment of women with pasts. The piece argues social punishment follows women regardless of repentance.
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