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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1904
Page
4
A surplus stock from a Chicago millinery house offers New Spring and Summer hats at about one third regular price. Nobbiest street, dress and walking hats in latest materials and trimmings. Easter hat savings exceed half. Sale starts tomorrow at 8:30 am with extra salesladies. Lifetime opportunity.
A sale of about 250 ladies hats in Kombo straw with silk trimming and floral touches. Hats come in blue red brown champagne and black with assorted chic walking styles for young ladies. Prices range from 98 cents to three dollars, reflecting trimmed hats of actual four dollar value. Sale runs tomorrow through Saturday.
Over 400 hats in street and dress styles offered at 8.00 each with costly materials. Respond early to secure first pick in this limited sale running tomorrow through Saturday.
A short ad notes extra heavy towels priced at 5c each, valued at about 260c, suggesting a deep discount or promo offer.
City lawmakers debate street paving petitions pitched to cost taxpayers about $25,000 this year and up to $75,000 in bonds. Only Councilman Samuel T Howe questions the plan while the Ways and Means committee approves blocks on West Fifth and Topeka avenues as part of a summer pavement push amid streetcar and grading concerns.
A Southwest Africa missionary reports to the Reichsbote defending the Herros against massacres of women and children. He cites alive women previously feared dead and notes natives guided to military stations. A case describes Germans seeking refuge in the missionary’s house, two traders reputed to oppress natives, and a third, Martens, seeking farm land amid hostile Herros.
A sale offering 262 hats in leading styles from top American milliners. Dress, street, and outing hats priced at five dollars, with many pieces valued at twelve to fifteen dollars. Offers run tomorrow through Saturday, inviting buyers to compare quality with the price.
The Amissionary asserted that Herzog Foteled, partly a trader, suffered due to cruel acts and a broader disregard by Germans for the sacredness of native marriage relations. The passage notes traders spared Martens in the context of these accusations.
The Topeka Pure Milk company hosted 16 local producers at its plant for a lecture on dairy farming by Prof. rf from Kansas State Agricultural College. J Muidenhawer of Hoard's Dairyman spoke, and manager J E H Nissiey noted the event funded by the company. The speaker will visit dairies statewide during a week long Kansas tour.
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