Groceries Sold Cheaply with Best Quality Goods
A local grocer promises the lowest prices on fresh groceries and top quality merchandise. Customers are invited to compare values as store officials advertise ongoing discounts and daily specials.
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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1899
Page
8
A local grocer promises the lowest prices on fresh groceries and top quality merchandise. Customers are invited to compare values as store officials advertise ongoing discounts and daily specials.
The readable OCR shows a mixed catalog of food items and household goods with unit prices including sugar coffee pork lard flour soap crackers oats beans tomatoes and canned fish. It reads like an old time grocery sale page with numerous line items and prices scattered throughout.
In our fresh meat department you will find all kinds of meats of the best quality and at very low prices. We give stamps on everything. We do not except any goods in the store, as some grocers do.
A Topeka youth buys fireworks and punk at a local shop on the Fourth of July. The merchant explains punk lasts long but notes the store does not stock punk goods. The ad-like text promotes tailored suits, shoes, and Negligee shirts as quality items.
A chaotic scan of Topeka area items lists Kansas Avenue events, social notes, and local concerns. Mentions home news, bowling plans, a Chicago trip, a missing child, advertising markets, road and sidewalk wear, city infrastructure, medical society actions, and upcoming local displays and activities.
General Leonard Wood, governor of Senting, addressed Cuban orphans at a New York Chamber of Commerce reception. He warned of neglect and urged a nonsectarian education system in Cuba while planning relief, and said he would confer with Secretary Alger in Washington before returning to Cuba.
Shawnee County will operate without a probate judge for a month as Judge Dulman takes a vacation. A deputy will serve as judge and ex-officio clerk, with the private judge’s office handling matters and no other official left in charge. Marriage licenses will continue to be issued during the absence.
Wayne Bell tears been Sparanty since ates Spee stm Toes ar ae bet oes treatment. the boy's deat is housiy expected.
The Tribune reports talks to consolidate Manhattan Brooklyn and Bronx street transportation. Brooklyn Rapid Transit absorbs Nassau Electric and Brooklyn Elevated chain and aims to take over King County Elevated. Metro and Manhattan Railway also expanding with electric lines and third rail power, plans to sell electricity to the public.
In June 2 report from Whiadhipbla Pennsylvania the Asphalt Company of Agerina is formed in New Jersey to control the sale of asphalt in the United States. Incorporators led by Gen A Hakan say the corporation will oversee output and absorb competing firms to dominate the market with main operations to be based in Philadelphia.
Lyons Nebraska June 30. The city school board has resigned after high school graduation students appeared in stage outfits chosen as a protest. Students say they faced humiliations and adopted the word Work as their motto, marching in laborer attire to claim their diplomas. Townspeople endorsed the act and the board left the city’s educational affairs.
Ten thousand crowded the newly opened concert hall for the opening of the Golden Sublice Suengertist of the North American Ssengeebund. A balcony crack caused near panic but the audience, with swift action by staff, prevented disaster. Beethoven’s concert and the Star Spangled Banner closed a dramatic, well received program conducted by X N Eisenheimer with Miss Charlotte Macnati delivering the opening song. the event featured German addresses by Mayor Tatel and President Duljer of the North American Striere Wis.
Washington dispatch reports President orders direct mobilization to return volunteers from the Philippines with urgency. Transports to clear from San Francisco immediately, reinforcements to sail as ready, Otis’s forces to be rotated. Two new transports authorized for regular service once equipped.
The British ship Wo On was robbed by 23 masked Chinese near Kamheuck on the West River. Passengers, mostly British and American, forced to surrender about 7000. Chinese torpedo boats watched from shore. In Pekin a dramatic rescue saw Dr Yung Wing freed from prison by an American attaché.
A rough granite like fragment carved with a human or divine figure, believed to be Sugawara Michizane the Confucius of Japan, was sent to the Church Missions House in New York. Donor Rev Gring notes the sculpture is over a millennium old and linked to education and patronage of letters in ninth century Japan.
Victoria B C June 20 On the 29th a double tragedy shook Hong Kong as Andrew Mirks recently retired from the flagship Olympus at Manila shot his bride of six days and then killed himself Marie Terrade French Egyptian daughter of scientist Crille Terrade of Rene Algeria was the bride The couple reportedly faced inherited alcoholism and a troubled marriage
A widow named in Manila after marrying Marks at St Louis Cathedral on May 22 dies from a wine fueled intoxication. Marks, a former sailor who ran a restaurant, returns home drunk six days later and shoots his bride before killing himself, ending a doomed honeymoon.
A prominent Texas Democrat close to Rear Admiral Schley asks if he would be a candidate for president or vice president. Schley replies he would not accept nomination nor serve if elected, saying a naval officer with no public affairs experience cannot better serve the country than in his profession.
Mamie Hair, 14, adopted daughter of T. G. Mathews of Carbondale, left for Centralia with C. Roe, a man over 60. Parents unaware. letters imply plans to remove the girl. Mother began a search, aiming to secure the arrest.
Two Royal Engineers members, Viewne, dime 20 Likuw, Hon ter and Watts Jones, from Capt. Davies party, arrived by Imtay's Canadian Pacific steamer. They conducted reconnaissance for a proposed railway from Burmah to southwestern China and filed an eminently favorable report. The group had a noteworthy experience in the region to be traversed.
Two lieutenants, Ryder and Moore, are left to finish explorations at the headwaters of the Yunatee. They continue the reconnaissance while others pause. The situation suggests ongoing surveying work and cautious advance in difficult terrain.
Valerie Padelford, Bettina Girard’s child by a prior marriage, is named heiress to a $250,000 fortune by court order. The guardian is Missouri St. Ordway. the funds are held by Land Title & Trust. The case notes Bettina's failed marriage and prior divorce, with income to be delivered to Valerie.
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