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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
8
A collage of overheard remarks from diners and passersby includes a dialogue about education, manners, and accents with colorful exchanges between a neat colored man named Westley and a ragged boy, plus other brief quotes about compliments and social behavior from New York papers.
A long federal trial in Topeka centered on the Hillmon case approaches its climax as Judge Williams prepares to issue a ruling. The trial features rival testimonies about the identity of a buried body claimed to be John W. Hillmon, with numerous witnesses from Medicine Lodge and Lawrence detailing height, teeth, and burial and inquest procedures from 1879.
A San Francisco Call report recalls a lawyer who defended a negro preacher charged with stealing wood from a railroad, using kleptomania as a legal defense. The preacher was acquitted, then allegedly emboldened to steal again, viewing acquittal as a license. The piece ends with an offhand laundry advertisement.
A Washington Star reporter recalls a Georgia peach ranch visit and an eccentric bachelor farmer living amid wasteful crops and nuts. The tale contrasts with a rotating ward of the seas from Bureau Veritas statistics detailing world merchant ships and steamers by country. A tongue in cheek aside ends with a patent medicine plug.
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