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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1895
Page
3
The Hypatia Club hosts a reading session featuring authors presenting essays or excerpts from the News of Kansas. Attendees expected to discuss regional affairs, culture, and local issues depicted in the publication.
A eight chapter composite tale read by Hypatia club members featured eight young ladies delivering their separate chapters to a packed room in the city building. The event marked a historic turn with the young ladies directing the meeting and the piece to be published in the Eagle spanning twelve installments.
Three young tramps were arrested in a Union Pacific box car last night by Officers McElroy and Pinkston. They gave names as C A Gray 23 Frank Sweeney 15 and James A Wilson 15. Searched at police headquarters, they bore razors and jewelry including breast plow gold rings and scarf pins, suggesting theft elsewhere. they will be held until notices from neighboring towns arrive.
Dispatches from Oklahoma and Kansas report a general rain last night breaking nearly nine months of drouth. Wheat is beyond help, but corn, cats and cotton may benefit in parts of the territory. A small cyclone at Perry disrupted wires, but no serious damage is reported elsewhere.
Britain signals willingness to settle the Nicaragua dispute if indemnity is guaranteed. If payment is assured, the British fleet will withdraw from Corinto, despite yesterday’s foreign office statement of no change in attitude.
Mr Jennings foresees more rain showers tonight as recent storms bring good rains to Wyoming the Dakotas and Minnesota with Kansas and Oklahoma fair. Partly to mostly cloudy conditions prevail this morning with promise of additional precipitation in our vicinity tonight.
Vermont maple sugar production rose from about 6.35 million pounds in 1850 to 14.12 million pounds by 1889, with syrups increasing to 218,25 gallons valued at 1,243,858 dollars. The article details bush camps, tapping methods, evaporators, and quality factors, noting widespread production, modern improvements, and issues with adulteration.
A miscellany of practical household tips and simple recipes from Prairie Farmer and Good Housekeeping. Includes currant cake and date cake recipes, a note on a Boston Budget jelly, baked eggplant, cheese bites, eggs a la creme, and a brief market report with commodity prices and trading notes.
Wall Paper 23 cents per roll advertised at Van Hoore’s 720 Kansas Avenue. Today’s market report from Topeka via Associated Press notes modest wheat and grain activity in Curcaco. Wheat firmer with July at 63 39 and ranges 63 to 64 1/2. corn steady to 43 1/2. oats firm. provisions lower due to hog receipts. Hogs receipts around 20,000. cattle and feeder prices listed. Kansas City and Topeka representative sales summarized with figures for various livestock categories.
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