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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1900
Page
8
The notice outlines a spring sale at Sears Stans Ave featuring wide assortments from ladies wear and undergarments to table linens and towels. It highlights low sale prices on shirts, dresses, hosiery, and bedding with emphasis on quality and standard offerings.
Fragmentary ad style note referencing crabs rubber dressing combs rental back combs hair brushes and related small wares. Based on limited readable text. No clear event date or proper nouns.
Report from Pekin describes a violent engagement as boxers attacked railway workers and their guards. Engineers and locals defended machine shops, repelled attackers with improvised weapons, and fled toward Pekin as violence escalated. Boxers killed several workers and damaged property before retreating toward the line’s end.
Before July 1 stock taking, the Topeka store offers open stock carpets mats linoleum and oil cloths at cost from mills. It includes all grades and abundant wool and cotton mill products such as tapestries moquettes axminster and velveteen.
The report notes China’sBoxers rising suppressed by mixed forces. Americam marines led a relief party to Pekin despite a viceroy edict and attacks near Taku forts. Papers recount battles June 7 under General Nich with hundreds of boxers killed and railway damage.
A long list of Kansas county agricultural fairs with locations, dates, and secretary names is summarized. The state board of agriculture compiled by Secretary B. D. Coburn notes fairs and officials across many counties including Iola, Hiawatha, Ottawa, Paola, Mankato, and Burlingame, with dates in late summer and September.
A collage of Topeka items describes visits by Dr. L B H Munn and others, horse show preparations, court schedules, and street activity. Mentions include J A Hart Cimarron Kansas, H G Rising Ottawa route, Kansas Democrats convention, and local business and social notes with multiple named residents and venues.
Major Desborough reports finding Grape-Nuts 45 miles into the mountains at an old oil camp where 1-guard eat it daily and on Sundays. General Machen notes that Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee are widely available near mining frontiers. The food is valued for instant preparation and claimed brain and nerve nourishment for travelers and frontier workers.
The Chicago building trades strike appears broken as 80 percent idle workers may soon return under new agreements. Bricklayers and stone masons led by an all night vote withdrew from the central trades council after a conference committee recommended severance due to failure to settle labor troubles. Arbitration talks set for afternoon between bricklayers and masons to sign a work agreement, with other unions likely to follow.
Burton rejects rumors that the Kansas delegation or its chairman acted as a tool for Platt or others to back Roosevelt. He cites the delegation as harmonious and united, saying their support aimed to spur courage in others and help Roosevelt and McKinsey prevail at the national convention and in the coming election.
Newport Rhode Island June 2 Admiral Dewey gave an interview stating he is ready if the American people want him as their candidate for president but would not stand for vice president. He noted western sentiment backing Bryan if he runs and praised President McKinley for handling a heavy strain including the China situation.
Justice David J. Brewer of the U S Supreme Court travels to Kansas City to hear arguments in the Metropolitan Water Company Kansas City versus the city case. The session is set for early Friday morning with Judge Corland and other federal officials in attendance. The visit also notes Alabama delegates leaving for Kansas City for the Democratic convention, with many favoring David B. Hill for vice president.
A fragmented notice lists Denver to Pueblo via Santa Springs tickets with stopover options between Pueblo and Denver. It mentions sale dates June and July plus August and October 3rd, with agent DL King handling particulars and references a person named Dick and a presenter Bis.
Geary county Populist central committee launched a campaign to back Col. Ed C Little for congressman at large. A June 1905 circular urges nominating his ticket and instructs delegates to press for his nomination while praising his soldierly service and oratorical talents. Separate notes report the cruiser Atlanta nearing readiness for service and possible deployment to European waters, with Kentucky expected at the navy yard.
Philadelphia dispatch describes Mrs Oliver Clifford of the Presbyterian mission at Tien Tsin reporting from New York that whites are seen as targets amid tense fears of an uprising. She notes they sleep with firearms, with pistols under heads as guards. the scene reflects growing anxiety among the foreign population while tensions rise in city.
A posted statement on walls and fences declares the Meayers are displeased and decree that there shall be no more ruin in Singdare until all are expelled. The message frames a harsh ultimatum and identifies the faction as enacting the action.
In Pall River on June 21, prices for printing cloths slipped from 34 to 2% per yard amid a stagnant market since March. Despite orders for the coming week, producers report weak demand and a likely cut in production as sellers push to clear inventory.
Local reports describe miners trapped by collapsing coal pillars in a mine disaster. Rescue teams rush to the scene as officials warn of continuing danger while the exact death toll remains unconfirmed.
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