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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1899
Page
8
From the Rostan Transcript a potential industry grows around cultivating Bermuda lilies for bulbs. The text notes cultivation challenges including tainting and pests, and mentions protectionist objections and uncertain market success despite various experiments.
An unclear fragment from a Mower IA report notes bulbs may propagate without many items. It hints at Bermads home relevance and discusses problems faced by the SR agricultural department. A new start is needed for the name Parte if its growes is to continue permanently.
Young veterinarian Chasik of Katsu City conducts treatment of diseases and performs surgical operations on all animals. Based at 109 East Second Street Photogrante Yale, special operator at Downing's, contact F C Haupach, manager. Also Topeka Carpet Cleaning Works advertises services next to the Columbian Building with Tel 789. Peerless Steam Laundry promises neater collars with their service.
The London Athenaeum recalls Dr Thomas Nedley as a premier Irish humorist whose wit and social force shaped Dublin dining circles. He championed the folk voice through dialogues, street ballads, and keen social insight, leaving a lasting influence though his health faded.
Gen Miller and Col Lippincutt head a list of officers and soldiers arriving on the Sheridan at San Francisco including Captains and Lieutenants from the Seventeenth, First Nebraska, Twenty-second and Tenth Pennsylvania units with assistant surgeons, volunteers, and sick and convalescent men. One private, John W. Flint of the Thirteenth Minnesota, died at sea of dysentery. his body remains aboard.
A summer season at Garfield park opened with the Oliver Colby Vaudeville company drawing 600 to 700 for the first show. Reviews praised the variety and performances by Sisson and the Oliver family, noting some seat-unoccupied crowding and urging better seating arrangements for future performances.
District lodge No. 2 Indianapolis? No, Louisville delegates urged support for a Jewish hospital for consumptives in Denver at an annual cost of 15660. The plan would be led by Hebrew officials and charity but open to all. a two hour debate reduced endowment from 1000 to 50. Officers elected: Sam Bowman, president. Marcus Sulzer, view president. Goldsmith, second vice. Victor Abraham, secretary. Morris Bauer, treasurer. Convention to meet in St Louis next year.
New York May 4 report says Floyd Prince Faber Navagacione and Anchor lines discussed a general advance in passenger and freight rates between the United States and Italy at a Naples gathering. Gustav H Schwab North German Lloyd agent here calls the report plausible but says no definite information has reached him. The notice ends with an ad offering watch repair at Campbells 625 Kansas avenue.
Mayor Deverey orders a citywide crackdown on vice and disorder following a Tenderloin visit. Police captains are instructed to enforce excise and liquor laws, shut down dives, curb gaming and street loiterers, and ensure proper patrols and theater regulations to revive a somber city.
An unplanned fire scare tied up the city for an hour as a faulty electric wire near the Bates building caused smoke. Firefighters hunted a non existent blaze while a bystander outside the roofed structure remained oblivious. A second alarm from Fourth and Madison sparked worshipers to flee an afternoon prayer meeting. Jefferson street units rushed in, discovering only a frightened crowd and continuing services.
A May 24 report from Tripoli states a messenger arrived from the Foureau Lamy expedition claiming the mission reached Air in the Sahara after repulsing an Arab attack. Ten tribesmen were killed while French forces suffered no losses. the rear guard of about fifty men reportedly faced a severe loss.
London May 24 Riley Grannan sails for home on the Lucania claiming every debt paid and no unsettled obligations. Ted Steane allegedly aided Grannan's betting losses of about 30000 dollars at Beaufort club. Washington May 24 the president approves brevet promotions for Cel Summers of the Second Oregon and Captain Case of the engineer battalion by brevet follow-up to Otis and Lawton recommendations.
Paris reports M. Catullo Mendez French author and dramatic critic was seriously wounded in the abdomen after a duel with M. Vanor. He is in grave condition with internal hemorrhage as of yesterday. Secretaries Wilson Returns mentions his return from Ulster and Texas.
The North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse left Southampton for New York carrying 49 saloon passengers from the wrecked American steamer Paris off Coverack Cornwall. Survivors were interviewed but could not explain the accident. they praised Paris crew discipline and Captain Watkins' efforts to comfort passengers.
May 24 Huntington report says two colored boys found a bright girl baby, about 4 to 6 months old, lying on the bark of a stream opposite Marshall College. She was wrapped in a large sealskin garment valued at about 500 dollars. A stylish woman was seen leaving in a Chesapeake and Ohio train the prior night.
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