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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1895
Page
2
A pair exchange playful gifts and witty rejections on a street in a lighthearted scene from the Pittsburg Post. The man pays a forfeit to reveal a red necktie while the woman sends him a perfumed package, leaving both surprised at their mismatched presents.
Mrs Chugwater recalls passing a horse that tried to bite her at a downtown crossing. Mr Chugwater jokes the owner must have fed the animal sweets to provoke the bite. chiogge tsipupe.
A man struck by a passing cable car lies recovering in a corner grocery store. He asks the time, pleads to stay an hour, and reveals his wife’s planned afternoon tea, insisting he wait to return. The doctor urges hospital care, noting the risk but the man insists on staying.
A humor page excerpt contrasts Dashaway and Cleverton as they recount romantic misadventures with three women and ring gadgets, ending with a plan to reclaim engagement rings. A separate vignette shows Mr. and Mrs. Billus discussing Hankinson’s courtship, noting social circles and propriety in a tone reminiscent of Chicago Tribune humor column.
New York Weekly praises a dramatic production seen last night. The audience is spellbound from start to finish as speakers describe tense scenes and emotional moments, noting deep artistic execution and compelling performances throughout the performance.
In a chatty exchange, two New Woman figures clash over etiquette as one criticizes Mrs Umphry for lacking manners after failing to yield a seat to entering gentlemen in a street car. The quip highlights social expectation and modern wit in period discourse.
Twelve year old Joseph Austin Strong, lifelong friend and companion of Robert Louis Stevenson, inherits half of the novelist’s estate. The heir, son of artist Joseph D. Strong, gains half of a Samoa plantation and half of Oakland real estate, with ties to the Strong family in California.
John C. Wyman of Providence founded the Wyman Industrial school in Thomasville Georgia to educate colored children in trades and domestic arts. He is a philanthropic local advocate with liberal views and funds several charitable efforts. The article notes the lack of free schooling in the area for trades and domestic skills.
A Rhode Island educator funds a new school for Black pupils with 150 students learning trades and basic schooling. Charles Rice, a graduate of Atlanta University, heads the staff including teachers for trades, needlework, music, and a kindergar ten. The institution relies on voluntary gifts secured by Mr. Wyman, a 73-year-old World’s Fair commissioner and veteran. Also appears: brief items about Niagara Falls, a joke exchange, a Western cowboy scene, and a short ad for mineral water from J. W. Pairs.
Travel leaders announce May 21 and June 11 round trip fares to South Missouri Arkansas and the South and Southeast via the Memphis Route Kansas City Pt Scott Memphis KR with one fare minimum seven dollars Tickets can be topped at intermediate stations For details time schedules and stock growing regions of Missouri and Arkansas write J Locewoop G P T A Kansas City Mo Also ads note two cent white wallpaper rolls and Van Houten’s 720 Kansas avenue promote summer courses at Pond’s Business College starting June 8 for deficient students and Ne Plus Alice Polish Noted items include a sales pitch style collage of local commerce
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