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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1897
Page
8
Local store plans a half holiday closing for Decoration Day and promotes a special sale tomorrow featuring outdoor and picnic items. Highlights include flags, umbrellas, bicycle shoes and boots, Eton and White P. K. suits, picnic foods, preserves, olives, drinks, and assorted delis with price ranges noted. Customers urged to arrive early for the opportune sale.
The Yale governing body announced changes in the history department. Professor C. H. Richardson from Missouri will chair the history division while Drury College scholar B. M. Richards will lead the modern history area. Several staff appointments and leave of absence measures were approved, including new professorships in GHI Testament and German and retirements or extended service for key faculty.
Chicago May 22 The finest train in the country built by Geo M Pullman was shown on a test run from Chicago to Galesburg and back and will depart for Cincinnati. Exhibitions are planned in St Paul Minneapolis and other cities with hundreds of spectators including Pullman. The train features entirely new design with electric propulsion and elaborate compartments in varnished woods, with drawing rooms state rooms and dining and smoking salons. The interiors boast Persian style arches carved ceilings silver and gold decorations and a large central archway. The chair cars seat 46 with smoking and sanitary rooms while a reading room and writing desk are provided in a section of a compartment.
New York May 28 Aldyce WalkerKR Somers Hayes and Victor Moravets purchasing committee for the Atchinon board of directors in respect to the western division of the A and P railroad have returned to New York. The gate was offered on May 3 and confirmed by all the courts. The next step is organization of a corporation and title transfer from the committee to operate the road. The stock and bonds of the new company will be deposited under the Atchinson general mortgage Receiver CW Smith remains in possession until transfer to the new company can be made, close of the present fiscal year. Net receipts are spent on the road with miles of new track already laid. The committee reports the road in fair condition for speed and safety. maintenance savings available via immediate outlays to preserve the plant and water supply. Last month showed highest monthly process receipts in A and P history. The new corporation will cover traffic from Albuquerque to peeves ae miles and 500 more miles in connection with Southern California. Mojave division included. Papers prepared for exchange with Southern Pacific for the Sonora railroad in Mezino.
The Albuquerque office announces July 1 relocation to Los Angeles as Charles Crary becomes general auditor of the A and P and California Southern railways. W S Walsh remains in auditing while Crary and family move, abolition of cashier position follows. Godfrey Holterholt Jr. to assume California Southern treasurer role.
Reports say roads are consolidated and a major change will move about 26 employees from the city to Los Angeles while Albuquerque gains shop positions and roughly 10 more workers. Interest on bonds will be deferred.
An Idaho man brought a nearly cube blue crystal to George Taylor at the Miners' Bureau in Denver. Taylor identified it as a 205 carat sapphire, possibly the largest ever seen, with minor fracture. Tiffany & Co offered $2000 then, and the owner plans to go to London to seek full value.
The Roxbury Bachelorers held their eleventh annual banquet at the United States hotel in Boston on May 8. The event featured a program of vocal and instrumental music with performances by club members and local theater talent. City officials attended as part of a celebratory gathering chaired by President Hualpin who also welcomed guests. City Clerk Galvin entertained with his song Waller Down Broadway and received an encore.
Chicago's annual census by the directory company nears completion. Figures to be released July 1 estimate the present city population around 1.8 million, with likely higher totals once margins are refined. Past years show growth of 105,000 in the earliest period, 57,000 in 136, and 45,000 to 50,000 this year.
Emma Ashley will appear in a benefit living pictures program at the Auditorium next Monday with four vignettes. The scenes depict Emma as her sister, a man as Lucky Baldwin, Lilian Ashley and her child, and Baldwin in torment, ending with an ascent to Paradise.
Chicago May 2 Parsons Taft mortgage firm uncovered papers show Abraham Lincoln’s devotion to his parents and a 40 acre homestead transfer from Thomas Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln. A bond to John Johnson and a sale contract linked to the Lincoln property reveal family obligations and a caretaker link to Mrs Lincoln after her departure. Separate incident recounts Clara Haight’s rescue after being lost near Grand Boulevard as a bicycle patrol aided by volunteers.
Bike club riders organized in Chicago to search for a lost child as a coordinated effort. A local group assembled at a rug store on party street to locate the child's parents, but details were sparse and the situation remained unresolved.
Columbus May 1 Director of Purge Improvements Jacobs proposes a new sewage disposal plan for Columbus not using the Scioto river or city funds beyond extending a southern interceptor sewer. A stock company would irrigate farms by pumping sewage into a southern canal then through irrigation ditches, treating the water before final discharge. the scheme aims for profitability and farmer support. The article also notes artist Hopkins in Chicago and local notices about cholera remedies and laundry services.
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