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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1898
Page
6
The piece recounts Fitzsimmons and Julian shopping in downtown Chicago for baby clothes, describing their two hour spree and the surrounding scene as witnesses observe their shopping trip and interactions with staff and onlookers. It notes social attention and speculative commentary on the couple and the newborn.
A garbled account shows a tense onstage moment with a young woman unawed, a whispered question to a master, and a flurry of names, actions, and reactions. The scene hints at a disrupted performance and crowded seating, with unclear dialogue and shifting focus across numerous figures.
A jumble of figures and phrases shows officials quarrelling over delays by the evacuation commission while preparations at Playa de Maria end this week and a newsboy cries out amid daily street chatter. Names and scattered lines reveal a chaotic, fragmented clipping with references to ships, ads, and German salve promotions.
A playful accident at Adelbert College shows students their imaginations at work as masons on a scaffold drop a fragment that nearly hits a worker. The fragment instead hits air, while a professor inspects the noninjury, and the crowd laughs.
In a New York Journal exchange Emerson Brownlog and Pape Spriggs discuss the term afternoon tan. The elder defines it as four components mingling greeting eating and frosting, revealing a playful, quirky origin of a slang expression.
A damaged OCR snippet notes a Ladies' Shirt washed by Peerless Sieus Laundry, claiming colors will not fade. The fragment hints at a wash test or advertisement but provides no clear action, date, or location details beyond the laundry claim.
In the Mohegan wreck off The Lizard coast of Cornwall the coast watchers recount how wreckers lure ships with deceptive lights to plunder the sea and sometimes the dead. An aged survivor, Old John Torquay, recalls golden days of salvage, jewelry, and daring rescues, lamenting the rise of steam, Lloyds, and coast guards ending the old era.
An elderly wrecker recalls harsher modern practices on the Cornish coast. He contrasts today’s quick removals of bodies with past scenes at the Lamp Inn where bodies lay in rows and visitors paid to view them. The coast guard watches sunset as a sense of regret settles in. Anzuun J. Staxqun.
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