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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1898
Page
7
Thompson Bros offers a wide summer furniture lineup including Willow Rockers and parlor pieces. Deals feature iron beds, dining chairs, and rattan rockers with prices from $1 up to $7.50, plus curtains, mats, and rugs, touting low undercut pricing and a broad stock.
An advertisement touts value through strong construction and reputable sources. It argues against cheap, inferior couches and promotes folding beds priced from 7.75 to 75.00, asserting the store sells good furniture cheap and does not stock low quality items.
Correspondent reports on the Twenty-seventh Regiment passengers riding toward Omaha. They note hunger after breakfast near Washington and travel on the Falkland with Major Chase Det er and officers from Companies E F G H. Health credited to Dr De Neidman, with Chaplin Biddiman and hospital corps aboard. Also mentions an Eight Hours Ride promo for Trans-M Miss Expo with Santa Fe Route tickets available.
Tampa May 27 The Fifth army corps to land on Cuban soil is formed of regular troops with two volunteer regiments at Lakeland and cavalry lines at Lakeland and Tampa under Lt Col W Randolph The corps totals nearly 15 000 men The Seventh corps under Maj Gen Fitzhugh Lee includes all volunteers at Tampa and Jacksonville with about 8 000 to 9 000 men. assignments list multiple regiments and infantry units across the two corps with commanders Gen W R Kent Col T Smith Col A R Chaffes Col J Van Horn and Col J N Andrews among others.
The document lists aging and regimental assignments under Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Brig. Gen. Hawkins, detailing divisions, brigades, and the commanding officers of the First through Fifth Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, and Wisconsin volunteer infantry units. It directs other organizations to report to the Fifth Army Corps commanding general.
Senator Lodge offers the Newlands resolution for Hawaii annexation as an amendment to the war revenue bill. Supporters of annexation state the measures will travel together henceforth, linking the Hawaiian plan with war funding.
Governor Leedy told a twenty member Leavenworth delegation that Topeka will be the mobilization center as long as troops are called for by the president unless the secretary of war orders otherwise. The delegation urged mobilizing KanSun quota under the second Leavenworth wall, but Leedy insisted he must track troop movements from mobilization to government transfer and refused the request. In Fort Scott a funeral home assistant embalmer, John W. Byrom, contracted blood poisoning after pricking a finger with a needle while embalming Charles L Morton’s body and cauterizing the wound.
Governor Adams wires the War Secretary seeking permission for Colorado to raise a full cavalry regiment under the second call. Two existing troops would join the new unit, with Colonel Hastings reportedly chosen as commander. Hastings is a close ally of Secretary of War and former Fifth Michigan Cavalry officer.
Ten thousand children march in a mile long procession along with sixteen bands and numerous civic societies in Kansas City to honor Admiral Dewey’s victory at Manila. The event features floats, decorations, and speeches by Major Warner, Judge Phillips, Bishop Glennon, Major Woodson, and reverends, drawing participants from two cities and surrounding towns.
Topeka reported a severe thunderstorm with heavy rain last night. Rain totals for 24 hours reached 1.28 inches, with May 27 days totaling 4.82 inches, above the normal 4.07. Dodge City saw 5.82 inches and Hayes City 2.40 inches. highs reached 87 to 90 degrees while the low was around 65.
Round trip ride to the exposition opens June 1. Santa Fe routes promise eight hours to reach the event with connections. Obtain details from the Santa Fe agent and Union Pacific Tea Co advertises large kettles for canning. Peerless Steam Laundry launches cuffs and collars for the new season.
Furnished rooms for rent at 4 Kansas avenue with gas heat hot water bath and conveniences single or en suite stall in good barn for rent cheap 421 Quincy st. petition on file in Shawnee county probate court to sell intoxicating liquors hearing set Saturday at am June 13 Topeka Kan May 19 118. Coville Bertrand
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