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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1899
Page
8
A historical sale notice lists hammocks umbrellas parasols fans hosiery and novelty items with deep discounts. items include hammocks once 120 now 3143. S6 umbrellas 5c now. parasols 2.50 reduced, children parasols and satin parasols discounted. fans gauze and folding styles offered and hosiery priced low. department claims many articles never sold above 1e or 2o and urges shoppers to act.
A local advertises an extensive line of fancy ribbons in 1899 patterns priced to move. Items ranged 3 to 6 inches wide and included options for bows and trimmings with bold sale prices, though the note warns the prices do not reflect cost.
Unclear ad listing prices and items from India Linens showing dramatic drops and misread product names. Mentions linens yards of various fabrics, lawn and cretonnes, dress linens, ginghams, and sale pricing though many words unreadable or garbled.
A 19th century style advertisement invites customers to travel to mountains or seashore with bargains on shirts waist dresses coats and suits. It touts Slik Shirts at low prices and a half price sale on tailor made ladies ensembles with limited stock and faded fabrics, urging quick purchase.
Overstock factory sale offers washable shirt waists and new skirts arriving daily by express. Purchases promise similar quality to prior stock at reduced costs. Consumers urged to act quickly for best selection and value.
Catalog style listing of men and boys apparel with prices, including extra heavy Rockford Sox, hose, neckwear, suspenders, caps, shirts, overalls, and drawstream, noting carried over stock and sale prices. Describes quality and brands like Baltimore brand unfaundered white shirt, Pepperill Jean Drawers, and various hat and neckwear options.
Carried over goods include black alpaca coats and vests in small sizes priced from 1 1/4 to 2.50 with choice of sizes. Men’s summer clothing offered at 24 to 2 off regular cost. Bargains on collars and linen items. Lawn shield bows and white lawn band bows priced low.
The department lists Ball Buckles Clasps and Left Supporters with items repriced at cost. Carriage Robes previously 48c now 0.38. Other robes were 1.00 and 1.28. both lowered to new sale prices.
A parlor scene shows a five member family debating labor steps behind the making of a pin. The father, son, daughter, and others discuss who contributed to the pin’s journey from mine to shop and home. The tale closes with a light jab at imagination and a roll call of household mishaps. Dr. Fowler's extract of Wild Strawberry is recommended as a cure-all in the medicine chest.
Observer Jennings reports a warm largely clear week with rains easing in central and western counties. Eastern division notes wheat nearing finish in south, cat harvest starting, corn tasseling in Montgomery, alfalfa cut in Chase to Riley, apples short in Doniphan and well in Coffey, Prairie grass good. Middle division sees wheat progress, oats starting Summer, corn rapid growth in Sumner Osborne Reno, alfalfa stacked, late cherries ripe in Ottawa Reno, apples good in Ottawa, magles falling in Saline. Western division notes wheat improving, harvest begun in Trego, hot winds damaged crops in Thomas Decatur Morton, rains revived crops. alfalfa good in Finney and Gray. corn improving.
In Boston recruiting stations report a steady rise in men enlisting for service in the Philippines with 45 enlisted locally last week 42 for the Philippines and 3 for other regiments. Washington officials say recruiting has reached about 1009 per week for three weeks and 5000 men await transport to the Philippines at the Presidio San Francisco. The army nears its legal maximum of 65000 and further guidance from Gen Otis is awaited.
Kansas City June 27 remarks from Harry Harris a prominent local Woodman say no members in the order have information beyond what newspapers report He questions the action of Northcott denying Johnsons candidacy suggests Johnson did not seek the head consul post and notes the appointment of AK Murphy to the board of directors implying Kansas members will be represented.
A private dispatch from Mountain hotel manager in Yellowstone park states a geyser eruption occurred yesterday from a crater about fifty feet north of the Fountain geyser. The event lasted from 9:90 to 10:25 with no interruption. Emperors Francis Joseph Sick. Vienna reports a relapse but no anxiety.
Fire swept Jones walk and Bowery area at Coney Island destroying Keater's concert hall and several smaller amusements. Estimated loss about 30000 dollars. No further details on casualties or cause available.
June 27 report on a proposed federation uniting 50 000 workers in Greater New York. A central federated union would consolidate five boroughs, reduce strikes, promote arbitration, and coordinate bricklayers and other trades under one umbrella to influence national and international labor movement.
Washington report describes a terror weapon with explosive power and wide destructive range. Tests of the shell, charged with melinite or dynamite, are conducted at Sandy Hook as the government guards the weapon’s manufacture. Experts say it could kill or cripple vast battalions and greatly reduce escape chances.
Articles of incorporation for the American Isthmus Ship Canal company were filed in Jersey City to form a New Jersey enterprise. The nominal capital is $20000 but may rise to $25000000, with investors including J Pierpont Morgan and Edward F Crogin. The plan envisions a sea level canal across the Isthmus, 32 feet deep at low tide.
Kansas City figures Luther Kountz of Kountz Brothers bankers to press the Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf railway receivers to extend toward Sabine Pass. A successful move could end the dispute with A B Stillwell former president, who backed line expansion to deepen Sabine property values. The Kountzes own most Sabine property while Stillwell’s side built riverfront improvements near Port Arthur and deep water access.
Loula Modrigues born in Manila of Spanish parentage and Carlos Jallo Elizalde editor of the Spanish section of the New Orleans Trade Journal accept government posts. They will join four stenographers and typewriters for Manila courts, with salaries of 2000 per annum plus Manila expenses.
A West Cleveland administration incident shows cordial ties between newspaper men and the naval construction chief. A correspondent on intimate terms was invited to influence a presidential appointment. The chief sought help to block signing, leading to a chain of meetings involving Mrs Cleveland and Secretary Lamont. The episode ends with the president approving the paper, and the signature proceeding unstopped. High Masons Meet in Buffalo as Scottish Rite opens its Thirty third degree session amid memorials for Simon B. Fry.
A collage of lighthearted jests and家庭 vignettes from bygone papers. It blends humorous exchanges about funerals fires and daily life with cartoons of family banter and streetcar gait. the tone recalls early 20th century humor columns and advertisements, featuring snippets about sermons, widows, and small social moments.
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