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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1899
Page
8
A dermatologist with over 20 years of experience offers Woodburrs Facial Soap and Facial Creem trial. The ad promises skin benefits and invites readers to try the products, claiming expert backing and proven results.
Dramatic events loom as Bobby Gaylor the Irish comedian headlines at Crawford theater with a strong supporting cast. The bill also highlights The Barlow Minstrels and other vaudeville acts praised for clever performance and back dancing.
The World reports Walter Vrooman of St Louis has opened a school of economics at Oxford England and organized the Backworth settlement at Ruskin Hall. His wife Mrs. Vrooman leads the Backworth club to aid working-class youths with affordable tuition, residence courses, and a program emphasizing citizenship and social leadership.
The Stackworth Club is a settlement opened in a pleasant house in Oxford near parks and Bodleian Library. Mrs Vrooman, a wealthy Baltimore lady, supports her husband Mr Vrooman’s reform work and donates her income of 15000 to 20000 dollars yearly to further humanity and their plans.
Fellowship Club members and friends enjoyed a southern themed dinner at Kinsley’s banquet hall. The room mingled Mississippi river imagery with plantation touches as guests entered by a gang plank and listened to dusky music. A playful program featured humor about Union League politics, with Melville E. Stone and John J. Mitchell among the guests. The menu included blue points, gumbo, scalloped red snapper, spring lamb, and Virginia ham, with cocktail and dessert courses.
In Chicago on March 7 Judge Chytraus issued a decree dissolving the union of Genres C. Reuter of Duluth and Etta Sablotzky of Chicago. They married December 4, 1885 in Butte, Montana, as a prank during a visit. They had agreed to live apart but later sought the divorce.
New York reports William Rockefeller aims to build a mansion on Putnam Hill in Greenwich costing at least half a million dollars. The dwelling would house his son William Rockefeller who has been living at Rockwood Hall on the Hudson.
Prof. W. B. Cheadle shows waste diseases arise when nursing mothers withhold fats and phosphites from infants. Dr. Thompson endorses cod liver oil for mothers and babies. Scott's Emulsion is pure Norwegian cod liver oil with hypophosphites from Scott's, New York.
Actress Olga Nethersole spoke at Kent theater on the stage’s relation to social life. She urged reform, a drama conservatory, and diplomas for actors, comparing American progress to England and proposing training before public performances.
Rome dispatch describes Baron Cederstrom and his bride Patti at the Quirinal hotel. The baroness displays vivacious happiness drawing smiles from guests while the baron resists attention. Patti plans to flaunt her status, while the baron denies rumors of acquaintance with her as masseur.
Paris March 7. Marcon reports official permission for experiments between Dover and Calais or Folkestone and Cape Ceris Nez. He emphasizes the vertical conductor, signaling range scaling with conductor length, and says signals work over seas and hills. Reflectors and tuning may limit cross-station readings. tests show weather irrelevant over English distances.
A Paris photographer debuts Mummy Photography using real sarcophagi and mummy wrappings, featuring living faces peering from grave clothes, a trend in actresses’ salons. Boni de Castellane’s wealth grows as he buys Château d’Hiver near Pau, while his political aims rise. The Mississippi floods wash away old Kaskaskia landmarks, erasing the town’s historic riverfront. Chronic rheumatism relief via Detchaon’s Mystic Cure is advertised by a Topeka druggist.
Reg Bud reports the last vestige of Kaskaskia, once the state capital and western metropolis, will vanish as the Mississippi River continues to erode the peninsula. Only a few hundred feet of the old town remain inside the riverfront area, with washaway expected within weeks. The 1882 river junction between the Mississippi and the Okaw formed the present erosion pattern that doomed the town.
A small law library of 150 volumes with case and journal office space is offered for sale. The notice promotes De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for frost bite burns skin diseases and piles and warns against counterfeit imitators. Names listed include Geo. W. Stansfield W. H. Wilson A. J. Arnold & Son and A. J. Kane &
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