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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1895
Page
2
A lengthy advertisement from The Star Grocery touts savings for customers with a broad range of goods. It lists large stock and low prices on items including sugar, coffee, baking powder, canned fruits, vegetables, and pantry staples, urging readers to compare with wholesale prices and place orders.
A Columbus Avenue soda shop hires a new boy who misreads stamps. An elderly customer complains about flavored 2 cent stamps, while the proprietor descends to label spring fever pills. The woman exits angrily, joking about stamps next year as a cake salt falls from a rack.
A New England professor at a southern hotel faces a string of waiters asking if the world has soup. He replies that the last question was a compulsory fake, prompting a sharp retort about mock turtle soup.
A fragment from Darkest Africa shows a mission with sinister humor as a cannibal king orders a meal while an attendant jokes about savagery. Other clipped lines reference a pleader, a barkeeper, and modern gossip tone from Philadelphia and Chicago papers.
The British House of Commons counts five members born in the United States or raised there who later became British lawmakers. Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Bartlett-Coutts, sons of the Bartlett family, plus F. A. Channing from Boston, and Major E. B. Jones with Dr. J. P. Fox, both once American citizens. Bartlett-Coutts, once William Lehmann Ashmead Bartlett, married the Baroness Burdett-Coutts and adopted her surname as part of a royal decree, with substantial wealth shaping his political career.
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