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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1899
Page
7
A compact notice offers a free three day advertisement for readers seeking help or services. Describes a short term promo inviting individuals or groups to submit their needs and contact details for complimentary placement.
You Want to Hire a Man a Boy or a Woman an Advertis ement in This Paper will bring you so many applications that you can have your pick of the Seat. You have property to Rent or For Sale the easiest simplest and cheapest way to bring Before the public is to put a little Advertisement in The State Journal. It will be read everywhere in the State of You have anything to Trade whether is a Bicycle a Store or a Piano tell the people about in This Paper and you will get a Customer.
A short promotional notice urges merchants to advertise to boost trade. It hints that stock, changes in business, and new goods should be advertised to attract customers. The text emphasizes low costs, weekly rates, and the long term returns from advertising investments.
A French military journal challenges the belief that Russia holds the world’s largest field army, arguing the United States could field the most troops in war. It compares available strength across nations, notes U.S. population growth and military-age cohorts, and discusses veterans and reserves amid wartime planning.
A San Francisco Bulletin item describes a painting in which a hunter and nearby beggar watch a flock of ducks. The artist, once a noted portrait painter, is now an inmate at Stockton State Hospital, who used a ripped mattress and his own blood to create red accents on the canvas. Authorities later supplied materials and the artist remains gentle while painting.
A jumble of humor sketches and quips from multiple papers includes gags about germ theory and drinking, a currant-picking child, parisians and discontent, strong women yet unable to help mothers, and street-legal quips. It features banter between judges, cops, and singers, light wordplay, and quick one-liners from newspapers like the Detroit Journal and Indianapolis Journal.
Fort Scott on June 1 at Col J H Richards order a carload of Fort Scott African American miners bound for Yale and Fleming mines. A federal marshal squad followed to arrest any striker interference under federal court. Richards vows operations will continue at any cost and promises more workers from the South. Three hundred West Virginia Black miners were moved south over the Missouri Kansas Texas toward Indian Territory mines with unclear destinations.
Denver cold springs and Pueblo round trip tickets priced at 2400 good for return until October. Tickets listed via the Rock Island Route with reservations through Palace Sleepers. J W Priddy notes oxygener aiding a bookstore return. Also promoting system window screens and screen doors from Davies and Pees. From First and Kansas to Butte Montana RE 85 via Santa Fe Route.
Providence R I June 29 Rev Dr George C Lorimer of Boston warned the Brown University senior class that modern society is oppressed by greed and vice. He urged awakening to erase social injustices and argued true charity must yield to justice between man and man, declaring even clothing the naked hinges on justice rather than charity.
President Charles Kendall Adams spoke to about two thousand graduates and townspeople in Madison on the baccalaureate day. His address, titled Irresistible Tendencies, argued that trusts and corporate consolidation are natural outcomes of individualism and invention, with expansion bringing civilizing influences despite cited evils.
Colorado Springs Colorado June 13 Mrs Lucy Quimby sues her mother in law Mrs Jane R Quimby in El Paso district court for 10000 damages alleging persistent vilification and alienation of her husband's affections leading to separation. The Quimbys are pioneer locals. The plaintiff visits Kentucky. Also contains travel rate notices and agent contacts for Union Pacific rail excursions with limited dates and prices.
Chicago reports Edison is pursuing a new process to produce marketable fuel from coal. R H Norton, ex Washington mine inspector and San Francisco coal contact, supports the plan and has chartered miners to California. Edison’s aim to compete with Pennsylvania and Chinese coal tied to California iron trade.
The Calvars Presbyterian church in Harlem will be sold to a Jewish synagogue amid the Briggs controversy and the McGiffert trial. Pastor Rev. Dr James Chambers resigns as the congregation abandons the church, marking a second Harlem church sold to Hebrew congregations within a month. Rev Dr W D Buchanan may be called to Fourth Avenue Presbyterian church after resigning from Thirteenth Street following a failed consolidation attempt.
Naples reports the arrest of Don Eduardo dei Liguori Duke of Prezziomauri and Prince of Precissi on charges of swindling about £15,000 from multiple victims. A noble Southern Italian family with historic ties, the case unsettles society as police decide how to inform the mother, the Princess of Precissi, of her son’s trouble.
A collection of classified notices seeking work including a nurse girl position, housework by a 14 year old, a female clerk, a housekeeper for a widow, and a boy for general housework. Also listings for cash for patents, sale ads for ponies, tubs, and real estate, with contact details in Topeka and Baltimore.
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