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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1899
Page
8
Readable items from a Star Grocery advertisement show various products and prices including Arbuckies Coffee Sante's Coffee New Orleans items and pantry staples. The fragment lists brands and goods such as Walter Bakers Cocoa Postum California hams breakfast bacon and syrups with scattered misspellings and garbled text.
Anexplained anecdote discusses how Chinese laundry receipts carry ornate notes in ink, often describing the customer with colorful phrases. The writer shares attempts to translate slips, noting recurring patterns and humorous misreadings, alongside reactions from translators and a Mongolian friend.
A fragment recounts a plan to display a deity statue and murder a laundry worker. The text then makes a hostile, demeaning stereotype about Chinese people, describing them as quiet and demure yet secretly laughing and sizing up others. The passage echoes racial prejudice in a troubling voice.
Indiana couple Mr and Mrs Herbert Scott near Navillevun Floyd County celebrate their golden wedding on February 13 18M. All ten children grown have never all been under one roof, yet they plan to reunite for the anniversary as the family gathers for the first time in many years. The Scotts have resided at the same home since marriage and operate a laundry business.
Topeka items report a variety of local notes including government plans, weather impacts on streets, repairs, and public events. Mentions of state offices, appointments, and community activities appear alongside weather and transportation concerns, with scattered references to nearby towns and organizations.
May 15 The woman’s auxiliary board of Trinity College which is to be erected near the Catholic university held its final meeting to perfect ground breaking arrangements for early June. The college will be the first woman Catholic establishment on the continent for higher education. It will be a women led project with Notre Dame sisters designing and superintending. Groundwork will be by Notre Dame workers with grounds laid per a sister’s plan. Open to students in 1900, Trinity will include several professors from the Catholic University among its staff.
Washington May 17 Senator Allison of Town says he has no knowledge of owning a vacant lot at the intersection of Massachusetts avenue East Capitol and Thirteenth streets southeast. District commissioners informed him the property is being used as a public dump and asked abatement. He asks for evidence of title if he indeed owns the land and urges the commissioners to identify the true owner.
In New York on May 17 Rev Dr Madi don C Peters urged that wealth should serve, not rule, and urged rich men to use their fortunes for the race. He cited Andrew Carnegie’s example as evidence that wealth can bless others and promote universal fellowship amid vast national riches. The piece notes a $10,000,000 gold bar discovery in Philadelphia.
A reader from Chicago asks why Kansas and Nebraska show lower illiteracy than New York or Massachusetts and details per capita schooling spending. The letter cites Nebraska 3.11 percent illiterate, Wyoming 3.41, Iowa 3.61, Kansas 3.99, Massachusetts 6.22, New York 5.5, Connecticut 5.28, Ohio 6.24, Illinois 6.35, attributing higher rates to foreign-born populations in cities. It notes Kansas farmers send children to school while urban areas in eastern states have immigrant-heavy populations, and lists state per-child spending with Nevada top at 1.86, Colorado 4.38, and various eastern and southern states following.
Nath an Tanner Jr a prominent Orden citizen has leveled apostasy charges against George Q Cannon of the Mormon church first presidency. The Salt Lake City high council refused to receive the documents citing Tanner’s lack of church standing. Tanner threatens more charges if a trial is not ordered.
A ceremony performed last night by Mrs. Leo F. Prior united George Austin and Miss Della May Avera in a Spiritualist rite. The public ceremony followed the standard form with vows not to seek divorce. details align with church-like rites. The event marks a notable Spiritualist marriage south of Baltimore.
Tickets offered by Vandalia Pennsylvania Line from St. Louis to Roanoke and return at one fare for May 16 19 20 and 21 with return by June 24 1840. Information via J M Capen and J T Foley. Also a pamphlet from Walter Baker Co on their cocoas and chocolates. One fare round trip via Union Pacific to San Francisco for National Baptist societies anniversaries May 25 1899. Only partial sale dates and details noted.
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