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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1900
Page
5
The notice advertises Star Grocery at 2 East Sixth Street offering wholesale grocery prices with spot cash purchases and no premium stamps. It lists assorted canned fruits, baking goods, fresh produce, breakfast foods, and mail order options, urging customers to save money compared to retail.
Local items describe political, social and cultural happenings in Topeka including court figures, civic meetings, theater windows, church events, and community notices. Names such as Mike, Guy, Mudge, and Lowe appear alongside talks of public works, concerts, fund drives, and school or university items.
District Attorney John F. Clark subpoenas over 20 leading Wall Street firms to have a representative present at the William F. Miller trial in Brooklyn. Firms including J.P. Morgan & Co and August Belmont & Co among those served. The move aims to show Miller had no dealings with these houses, countering claims he deceived investors by telephoning financial figures.
Social and personal notices from Topeka include Mrs Avery Turner of Chicago enjoying duplicate whist with Newton guests. Miss Jessie Warner of Wilmington to return home. Miss Net Herrison of Hutchinson visiting Topeka. Mrs W J Brown visiting relatives then returning to Oklahoma. various clubs planning socials at Hudsons hall and the home of Mr and Mrs Padgett. Vespuccian club banquet set for this evening.
The third Augustus Thomas play shown in America stirred Topeka crowds with its natural life scenes set in Arizona. Critics note faithful oral color and strong dramatic progress compared with his Alabama and In Missouri works.
The Potwin community bustle with events as clubs schedule meetings and social gatherings. Mrs Ackerman reads at the Women’s Club, the Helianthus and Bowling clubs host sessions, and a philanthropy event precedes an officer election. A new baby joins the Connors family, and notable residents travel or host gatherings.
George Nash and Edwin Holt deliver solid parts while Eagar Selwyn’s impersonation as Va quero Miss Mattie Earle as Ms Candy impresses. The audience turnout was full but the show fell short of this season’s best.
Washington reports Central American governments oppose the Davis amendment to the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. They warn it alters U S canal plans and could permit armed intervention to maintain order, risking neutral status and sovereignty in the isthmus. leaders warn regional resistance to any instrument seen as hostile to their interests.
Representative Hay filed a report from the house committee on military affairs supporting a bill to establish a 6,000 acre national battlefield memorial park on the Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Wilder Ford Spotsylvania sites. The field saw about 300,000 engaged with 129,000 losses. preservation is noted. The report mentions sites at Brodericksburg near Washington and monuments by the Daughters of the American Revolution. It cites birthplaces of Washington and other founders nearby. Virginia is highlighted as the war’s start and end.
The Denver Post proposed paying Rev. Charles Shelder to edit the religious page as the Capital Di rectorate faced pressure over the paper’s Christian stance. The offer aimed to stabilize the paper’s religious editorial direction amid turmoil.
A Denver Post offer of 6000 a year to take exclusive control of a daily religious page in the Capital newspaper was rejected by Mr. Sheldon who refused to abandon his ministerial duties. The dispute noted that Capital stockholders were said to be unsettled about continuing the religious paper.
A Washington dispatch reports Secretary Long ordered a coaling station contractor on Dry Tortugas suspended until November as surgeon general staff urge isolation to curb bubonic plague or yellow fever risks. Ownership remains unresolved though War Department holds title. Marine Hospital Service runs quarantine post with Navy arguments to keep island, citing wartime strategic gains and sunk costs.
Washington March 20 The ways and means committee held a special session to support a bill restoring an $8 million tax rebate for alcohol used in arts and manufactures. Don M Dickinson argued Congress intended alcohol to be free and that executive inaction could not override the Witken law. He cited Supreme Court precedent and noted dealers had lost millions while consumers benefited from lower prices, urging refund of taxes paid.
A Topeka Journal-2 item lists numerous real estate transfers with varied buyers and amounts. Entries mention Ruth Smedidick, G Horne, I B ano, J W and wives, and others transferring parcels on streets such as Santa Pe adaition, Highland Park, Morris Avenue, Garden Place and Fillmore Street within additions and districts, with sums from 200 to 3709 dollars.
Tickets priced at 2.00 for round trip from Ames to Oklahoma City with prevailing route via Santa Fe. Travel to Arkansas Arizona Colorado New Mexico and Mexico noted. Tickets valid 21 days with nearest Santa Fe agent for details.
Fragmentary OCR reading from a Topeka State Journal page shows garbled names and phrases. Readable bits mention Jefferson West, months, sales, and monthly pricing but lack coherent events or dates.
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