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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1897
Page
8
A local store advertises numerous fabric lots with actual sizes and prices for bleached sheets cresting a linen sale. Lot terms include crepe suitings, organdics, piques, grenallines, Zephyr ginghams, and imported thin summer goods. A one day promotion offers 25 percent off on trimmed hats and flowers.
A vivid auction scene unfolds in a New York Sunday Journal piece detailing a couple’s furniture and keepsakes sold amid desolation. A man and wife react as cash bids rise and fall, the crowd watches, and a dramatic moment ends with the foreman handling money while trauma echoes through the room. The tale captures tension, loss, and fleeting dignity in a wrecked home.
Report notes the highs and lows of the stock market amid seller pressure. Sears, Rachuck & Co of Chicago allegedly bought up many stocks and sent a misleading catalog to brokers. Attention centers on Bugsy Company failures and potential actions by manufacturers as demand collapses and stock runs dry.
An old railway travel ad touts round trip fares of 32.00 with Pullman cars and dining service aboard the Santa Fe Routes. It promotes luxurious comfort, scenic routes between fleet points, and emphasizes value for the journey. Ends with a date and location: National Educational Association Pewaukee Wis July 6 to 9, 1897.
In a tale from Uncle Jim and the Spirits a feared wandering specter terrifies a town. Ghosts in white supposedly left graves in a churchyard to frighten residents while a dollar drops from the roof and a frightened crowd scatters. PF L Stupton in Atlante Constitution.
A humorous Chicago Times-Herald paragraph recounts a visiting Swede at city hall seeking a marriage license. The license clerk explains a dog license rule in jest, prompting confusion until the man clarifies he only wants a wife, not a dog, highlighting a comic misunderstanding about fees and licenses.
A mosaic of dated quotes and ad snippets appears, including a photographer dialogue about smiling, mixed with mock dialogue from a Cincinnati Enquirer piece, machine translation style garble, and ads for silverware, train tickets, and a hair product. The readable threads hint at humorous or literary fragments rather than a single cohesive event.
Oscar Wilde argues that society inflicts harsher punishments on the public than individuals, describing a Reading-era boy in remand, brutal warder conduct, and a deteriorating prisoner driven to insanity by flogging and confinement. He condemns prison doctors for mismanaging mental illness and recommends humane treatment.
A Joliet man named Eurau Sage receives a four week museum engagement offer from Russell Sage in New York. Sage’s nephew, a struggling youth, is described amid tales of poverty and ambitious wealth, while Sage denies any familial ties to the young man or a nephew. The odd tale pits opulence against hardship as the museum prospect unfolds.
Washington May 31 F Trice of Chicas who claimed to have discovered the secret of alchemy and to produce gold and silver from base metals was declared defective by a government commission. The treasury department reports the commission sent its finding to the interior secretary and the patent office is acting on Brice initial patent application.
Memorial Day ceremonies at Hamilton hall featured Col J H Gilpatrick of Leavenworth as orator. He praised citizens, memory of the fallen, and the valor of American soldiers while urging reverent tributes and renewed homage to the war dead.
In Plainfield New Jersey a Christian Endeavor bicycle squad is formed to blend exercise with religious duties. The plan unites Endeavor members who ride bicycles with neighbor towns for religious exercises. A color bearer will lead the squad and display the pennant.
Parkhurst, longtime New York pastor, remains confined to bed at his home 2 East Thirty fourth Street after a relapse from grip and nervous troubles. Doctors say the overwork and fall sickness still affect him and hinder full recovery, though he shows better signs today. The burdens of his church and associated society continue to place strain on him.
The Taxpayers' League will meet at Harmilton's ball parlors Tuesday evening at o'clock for the election of officers and other important business. Mike Tery, Pres. Pro Tem, Snattinghr, Secretary. The Golden Red Wit have on sale tomorrow only a line of shirtings at 3 cents per yard. They are fall new goods.
The U S court in Rochester New York issued an injunction against selling Grab 0 packs imitating Postum Cereal. Counterfeits mimic the red seal and wording causing shoppers to mistake them for genuine Postum. Genuine Postum is produced by Postum Cereal Co Limited Bat Creek Michigan and is valued for nutrients. authentic packs retail at 24 cents.
In Topeka area society notes, Miss Whittlesey and Miss Hollis pupils perform at Bethany with a Chickering piano. several nine certificate recipients in vocal and a birthday party for Miss Nellie Phillips. Numerous social events include picnics at Silver Lake, surprise anniversaries, visits, musicales, and gatherings with families, friends, and Bethany students. Many named locals and visitors from Topeka, Lawrence, Emporia, Manhattan, and Kansas City appear throughout.
An advertisement extols Electric Bitters as the best vegetable remedy to restore nervous vigor, tone nerve centers, stimulate the liver and kidneys, and purify blood. It claims appetite and digestion boost, calls it a superior food purifier and tonic, priced 10 cents to a dollar at J. K. Jones' Drug Store. It also references Beech Pills for over eating.
North Topeka column notes residents at Overbrook Erie Pa and Manhattan visits, church and social events, travels to Baldwin Joplin and Missouri, a barbed wire accident at Rochester, memorials at Rochester cemetery, a waitress injury at the Adam House, arm injuries to Hugh Conilla and others, plus railroad excursion rate notices and travel ads.
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