This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1895
Page
5
The article notes a growing taste for floral decorations from lavish to modest households. It highlights florals for centerpieces, table designs, and personal adornment with hats and parasols. It details styles such as watteau, rococo, tropical wall decorations, and the use of tall plants to brighten interiors.
A Topeka society note details a farm party hosted by Mr Homer Bowman with guests including Mrs Bowman, Mrs George L Murdock of Massachusetts, Misses Thompson, Mary Thompson, Marguerite Breather, Nellie McClintock, Maud Bunney, Harriet Broad and Celia Bowes among others. Updates include travel to Lawrence, Plainville, Chicago, and Kansas City, with illness notes and visits to relatives in Lincoln and Independence.
News from Hong Kong reports attacks on foreign missions across a Chinese province. Canadian and American missionaries faced looting and burning as officials offered little aid, with fear of a complete expulsion order targeting Chang Tu and others.
News from Salonica reports intensified fighting on the Verim mountains with insurgent bands against Servian forces. Reinforcements dispatched while sixty Macedonians crossed the frontier but were dispersed with heavy losses. Other items note Nicaragua’s Mosquito question and a fatal accident at Camp Dovenas. Cholera toll rises in Japan with 2891 killed nationwide.
A Kansas City led wave of hiccough cures flooded the Lawrence Journal readers after Mr. Fiester’s six day attack. Suggestions from Denver Emporia Falls City and Topeka include nostrums cooks and a salivating amyl nitrate method, sweet milk cures, hot wall sacks and six ounce solutions, and a musical cure finally stopped the hiccoughs. Colorado Democrats call to reunite after a bi metallic push and a remnant silver restoration effort from the state convention.
Great wheel at Earlscourt, imitating Chicago’s World Fair device, halted last evening trapping passengers. Severs hours passed before movement resumed. Passengers were held until morning amid excited crowds. Portland, July 25, Democratic state central committee rejects action on silver question. chairman reports opposition from seventeen county committees. Gen Gordon visit to Madison noted with dinner for his honor. figures from public life attend.
Kansas cattlemen clash with state livestock sanitary board leaders over removal of state inspectors. Chairman J W Johnson accuses bad appointments while J W Moore protests removal. Johnson cites no infected cattle entering Kansas. officials anticipate possible board reorganization by Governor Morrill due to turmoil.
Lewis Wilkins, a 24 year old Kansan billed as the biggest boy in Kansas, visited Union avenue in Kansas City yesterday drawing a crowd. Standing tall with a 413 pound frame, he plans to join the Liliputian company in New York next season after touring with various troupes for three years. His parents live in Oklahoma, and his unusually large size has defined his life.
The state board of pardons recommends Governor Morrill pardon John W Edwards a Leavenworth colored man sent to the penitentiary in 1802 for burglary and larceny. He signs an unconditional pardon for Harry Diamond imprisoned in April 1894 from Kingroan for Arnon in the fourth degree. The commission to represent Hansas at the Mexico City International exposition in April and May 1896 will meet at the governor's office July 31 to organize.
A West Side woman clung to a young man's hand on a Summit Street car toward the Auditorium last Friday. She squeezed another stranger’s hand in the darkness and apologized while the engaged couple navigated the crowded car. The stranger reassured her, and the episode ended with a lighthearted pardon.
A reader and spouse quarrel over a novelette featuring Gladys Fitzanwyn. Farmer Hodge ridicules the heroine’s eye scenes as excessive while Mrs. Hodge questions the source of her husband’s irritation. The scene references Moor and lagoon imagery and dramatic sighs.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.