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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1903
Page
8
A fragment notes a sale of men’s hats with unclear details and location suggesting a Friday or Saturday event at an unspecified venue. The readable terms reference hats and possible pricing up to a sum, with garbled wording indicating an auction or sale by a shop or department.
Public sale notice highlights glove sale with values in various colors and sizes. One item offered at 1.25 dollars, and a rare opportunity at eight cents.
An old ad lists hats made of laces velvets furs chenille and braids with numerous trimmings. It also promotes kids shoe stock with sizes 214 to 3 and men shoes priced at 2.98 in big sale values including Goodyear welt soles and various materials like velour calf enamel box calf and kid.
Wayne Jones, a lineman for the Baa MiB Missouri Telephone company, received a severe electrical burn and was held to a pole by current for about an hour. Foreman Robert Day risked his safety to rescue him, following a high voltage incident on a pole between Second and Third streets and Kansas Avenue. Jones recalled the shock, describing muscles twitching and a loss of consciousness before the current was broken and he was lowered.
North Topeka column lists居民 migrating in and out of town. Mentions F McAfee in Kansas City, Jetty Paramore in the Spear department, Dr Ellincer moving offices, W H Saunders visiting Oklahoma relatives, George Crouch returning from Maple Hill, George Dick moving, and Mrs Comfort’s death in Mexico City. New Era Dept Store sales, fashion arrivals, and church revival services at Kansas Avenue M E Church are noted along with overcoat sales and remnants sale.
A Syracuse Nebraska woman credits Postum for relief from heart trouble and nerves after stopping coffee and switching to Pontum Food Coffee. The note details severe symptoms, a move to Syracuse, and improvement after one bottle, with ongoing better health attributed to the product.
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