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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal invites employment ads with “Situations Wanted” free listings on Saturdays and Wednesdays. Advertisements cost five cents per line or twenty cents per line weekly. monthly rates apply. This notice promotes recruitment and urges readers, offering generous access to classified space.
Advertisers are invited to inspect a new Web Perfecting Press presented as the handsomest fastest most perfect machinery in Kansas. It prints from two to an unspecified number of complete pages per second. Viewings offered any afternoon between 3 and 5 oclock.
July 22 report from Fort Schuyler details Lieutenant Lang ostracized after marrying Marle Kenkle daughter of William Kenkle a commissary sergeant. The couple faced social persecution, a wedding without support, and isolation at a military post. Lang’s health declined as investigations occurred and the estrangement persisted.
In the Bombay presidency cholera deaths have alarmingly increased over the past ten days with some bubonic plague recrudescence. In contrast, abundant rainfall is improving crop prospects. Also promoted is the New Great South American Kidney Cure promising rapid relief for kidney and bladder ailments, with sales noted at local Kansas avenues druggists.
Fire station locations and surrounding streets listed with multiple addresses in Topeka. The scattered OCR reads reference Fourth Street Kansas Avenue Topeka Avenue Grant Street and No 1 Fire Station along with others like No 2 and No 3 stations and surrounding avenues such as Western Avenue Buren Street and Fifth Avenue.
In New York on July 22 the World reports well to do travelers demand Alaska trip details. The first expedition for Yukon gold sails from San Francisco August 7 aboard the Queen. Members include W H Edwards, John W Edwards, Dr. James W Briniel, Charles Adelman and others, each contributing to a common fund of 1260 dollars plus gear and provisions.
The Journal proposes a float for children in the Cinderela procession featuring a huge pie from which twenty four blackbirds emerge. A related idea suggests children wear small black wings to enhance the illusion, with offers of assistance to organizers for this parade feature.
A decomposed body of a man was found yesterday evening in Chicago at a desolate spot near Grand and Kenzie avenues. The body was wrapped in rusted barbed wire around the lower limbs. A post mortem will determine cause of death. Identifications could not be made, but the deceased appeared to be well to do.
An article describes a free uniformed red cap attendant system at Grand Central Station New York organized by New York Central. Attendants assist travelers from carriages to trains and carry luggage at waiting room entrances and platform areas. They are multilingual, well-informed, and visible throughout the station.
In New York July 22 the World reports that Neresheimer & Co of the city will retire from business January 1, joining other firms like T. M. Brudel and Freund & Co amid smuggling pressure. About 20 firms have already retired or plan to, with losses to the legitimate diamond trade totaling millions. Special Agent Cross notes smuggling has grown rampant since a duty rise in 1893, and recommends restoring the former 10 percent duty to curb illicit imports, as honest importers fade under the 26 percent under the Dingley act.
Joseph Ladue, owner of the Dawson town site in Alaska, plans to wed Miss Mason of Schuyler Falls, New York. Their marriage was delayed by poverty and misfortune, including Ladue’s losses in Deadwood and subsequent Alaska trips. The couple aims to honeymoon toward the gold fields for about three years, with a ceremony likely next week at Schuyler Falls.
The vice regal council adopted Mr. Chalmers bill of July 2 repealing the cantonments act of 1897 to restore power to the governor general in council for contagious diseases in cantonments. Lt. Gov Mackworth Young warned repeal harmed British troops in India and morale.
New York July reports say silver prices dropped to a two year low with private wires from Wall Street noting that the European silver pool appears to be liquidating holdings. Brokers differ on causes citing a possible prior pool regulation and reduced eastern demand due to Japan's gold standard move. The decline coincides with news of the Klondyke gold discovery and broader market shifts.
St Louis. July 22. Albert Acruman wholesale nation cealer filed a deed of trust to Geo. W. Labke Jr for the benefit of creditors. Liabilities listed at 55000, assets at 3601100.49 amounts 9721. There are 150 unsecured creditors, mostly firms in St. Louis.
Two women and men credit Dr King’s New Discovery with saving their lives from consumption and severe cold. Mrs Phoepe nom says doctors gave up hope before two bottles cured her. Mr Thos Eggers of 129 Florida Street San Francisco bought one bottle and recovered in two weeks. Free trial at J K Jones drug store Fitts Street and Kansas Avenue. Regular size 58 cents and one dollar.
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