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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
4
Weather indications from Chicago report fair tonight and Saturday with warmer conditions. East portion bright with variable winds.
Chauncey M. Depew urges central party action to settle the currency question, arguing true permanency requires a permanent plan beyond party advantage. He warns against reopening the issue for narrow interests and stresses that any system should serve the whole people and endure beyond administrations.
The granddaughter of the famed naturalist translated twelve years’ work from French for the novelists and literary editors. Mentions welcome to British authors visiting the United States as well as reflections on then-current political figures and Parisian literary life including Guy de Maupassant statue and Zola’s address at Parc Monceau unveiling.
A fragmentary notice discusses Anne Burie Coreil consenting to an exhibition of a painting. The piece mentions a teen exhibition space, a French politician and artist figure, and the impact of a journalist Bennett Tiel on Deurget becoming a member of the French academy.
A collection of quirky maxims and observations on society, gender roles, marriage, and custom. The pieces muse on aging, sympathy, fashion, and work, with playful asides about rabbits, dentists, and servants reflecting early 20th century social attitudes.
Kansas City men use static electricity baths as a supposed cure, paying doctors for nervousness treatment. An engineer leads the setup in a large building, wiring copper and silver dollars to create electric shocks marketed as fat loss and tonics, with various men claiming rheumatism and nervous benefits while a laundry advert appears at the end.
The steamship Cley of Columbia opened for public inspection at East Ninestrest and will sail December 1 from Old Dominion pier with forty two women, including thirty five paying passengers, led by Mrs. Hancal Gould. The party plans clothing, a portable hospital, and a clubhouse, with aims of prospecting, nursing, and community work in Alaska and at St Michael and the Yukon river opening.
A novel experiment held Saturday at 4 o clock when each teacher hosted an Open House in her classroom to receive concerns from parents. Results pleased the school management as fifty teachers received calls with the largest single count three and the overall total 316 calls.
An account of Marion Howard Brazier addressing the Professional Women's League on aging gracefully. She argues wrinkles come from smiles and that staying youthful comes from keeping busy, social clubs, and self-presentation. Audience remarks touch on age definitions and dressing age appropriately.
A Clark Street grip car and an express wagon collided near Lincoln Park causing a barrel of 200 goldfish to overturn. Neighborhood children watched as water and fish spilled onto the street, and a Larkin Park board deal with custodian David Walker was in progress.
Rescue work continued as school children arriving amid the chaos joined the scene with delight. They swooped in and helped seize the fish, using handkerchiefs pockets hats and other items to secure the catch.
In Atlanta on November the bill to make Jefferson Davis birthday a legal holiday in Georgia faced a setback. Representative Oliver of Burke County introduced the measure and argued to honor the Confederacy hero, but the joint committee report was decisively disagreed to by a near unanimous vote.
William Cremer ex MP and editor arrives from Southampton to push a U S arbitration pact. He says 7000 British trade union officers representing 2,700,000 workers sign an address urging Senate ratification. He will stay months in America, visit Washington. Dr Charles Berry joins as chaplain for Senate opening.
Los Angeles Nov 5 Another important enterprise in the beet sugar manufacturing industry is to be launched by the Oxnards proprietors of the Chino factory After examining sites in widely separated locations they have chosen Hembe me Ventura Texas all places competed for the proposed factory The production of beets on Wag0 acres of land for five consecutive years has been guaranteed for the factory.
Mrs F Butler of Pairhaven reports relief after using Chamberlain’s otic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for weeks of stomach pains caused by biliousness. The note urges prompt use at first symptoms and claims wide recommendations. It also mentions Hal’s Hair Re newer as a remedy for gray hair and baldness.
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