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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1899
Page
5
A Topeka store ad touts wholesale and retail groceries with refunds for unsatisfactory items. It highlights a large sale tomorrow on sugar cured hams, coffee, tea, canned fruits, and staples, touting Monarch and Reindeer brands and urging customers to buy flour at the store’s price.
In New York a 1914 dispatch reports chaplains ordered to the Philippines facing retirement questions. Chaplain J S Silbedd claims misdated birth records and old age delayed service. others like G J Naye and S W Puchnard seek retirement. A board convenes to examine cases amid broader transport and rail disruptions affecting travel.
Vancouver report says J. J. McAriur, Dominion surveyor, who led a party making Yukon trails for three years, has returned to Ottawa. The aim was to lay a trail along the Yukon River to aid winter travel to Dawson, avoiding the dangers and delays of the usual overland routes.
A Washington dispatch reports the Navy will arm battleships with Krag-Jorgensen rifles and ammunition to match Army calibers. About 1,000 Krag rifles and 5,000 rounds are being issued for experimental use, with Army and Navy ammunition manufacturing coordinated to standardize ballistics and smokeless powder loading.
Audience cheers for Paul Gilmore in a new D Artagnan portrayal at Crawford Chester. Gilmore blends vivacity and emotion with strong stage presence earning top praise from viewers. Supporting cast, scenery, and production values add to a lively, well received performance praised for earnest character work.
This week at the Bennett Block store on 730 Kansas Avenue, readers are urged to drop by for new stock and special offers. The note highlights a feature event and invites customers to visit the shop this week.
Mise Helen Wilson hosted a Saturday evening gathering with many friends, prizes won by Mrs. David Norton and Mr. Guilford Dudley. A later thimble party featured an authors contest and two-course refreshments, with a large invited guest list.
Minnesota native Mr. Wise has a long rail and city engineering background including works with Frisco Gulf Colorado and Sante Fe and the Milwaukee tunnel project. He has served as city engineer in several towns and now faces consideration to fill the Topeka post with duties in building construction and street pavement extensions next spring and summer.
A Kansas Avenue storefront proclaims strict quality and reliability. It warns against cheap imitations and unsafe price comparisons, promising first class goods and guarantees that prices are as low as or lower than elsewhere.
Rockers offered in Golden Oak and Bee finish with cobbler and saddle seats priced from 2.60 to 5.00. Upholstered spring seat rockers feature at 9.75 and 6.75 with higher lines at 59.00 to 38.00 for elaborate Mahogany and Golden Oak designs. Additional pieces in Oak, Mahogany and Bird's Eye Maple range from 12.00 to 75.00.
Local shop advertises deep discounts on parlor suits desks chairs divans and office chairs. Prices slash modestly across multiple Damask and Turkish style pieces with 4 and 8 piece parlor suites highlighted amid a large stock of reception chairs and rocker options.
Feature on attractive toilet tables including quartered oak with shaved top French plate beveled mirror shaped legs long drawer. Reduced prices offered as items no longer carried. Price listed as $10.00.
A Washington dispatch to the Times reports the coast survey is studying Porto Rico to correct deceptive Spanish maps. The island appears irregular on old charts, with a possible large eastern bend and a hidden southeastern hole, suggesting the true American outline may differ markedly from the familiar insular shape. The work aims to establish Porto Rico’s real form after annexation.
Chicago health officials under Dr. Herman Spalding quarantined a crowd at Polit and Halstead streets last night as a vaccination attempt led to pushback by police. A Greek man named Gus Sale, said to have smallpox exposure, was involved while trying to escape custody.
A man leaped onto a street car and dashed into a Polk Street crowd where officers and Dr. Boulding captured him. Meanwhile in Chicago wages rise for steel workers at South Chicago mills of Maola Steel. About 400 men to earn 150 to 300 dollars monthly starting January. Adjustments delayed until mid 1900 due to sliding scale readjustment failures.
Paris newspapers condemn the stopping of the French steamer Cordoba by the British cruiser Magiciense. The Petit Bleu calls it an arbitrary act demanding indemnity to Cordoba owners and France, while Le Soleil and L Echo de Paris protest in strong terms. Le Matin urges an investigation, noting no blockade evidence. Also included is an advertisement alleging a rheumatism cure by Detchon’s Mystic Cure and endorsements.
The Topeka Whist Club report lists players such as Heyden Wolf Scott Kistler Hyder Lowry Ashby Munn Beerbohm Brown Gill Alston Marshall Pennikamp Wash bure Greenwood West Cone land Merrick Jolley Neal McKirahsn Cole Freeman Troutman Mason and others with detailed North and South Ryder Lowry 186 Beerbohm Brows 178 Scott Hustler 188 Marshall Pennekamp 2 Ashby Munn Jad Koonts Drum 170 Davies Van Vaik 165 Putnam Gillespie 170 Shakeshaft Gill mea ean 17% Conners Murphey ure Greenwood 143 Carr Hu ling 734 Cole freeman 141 Merrick Jolley 13% Troutman Mason 136 Robbins Parker 134 Cor rahan 336 Horn Thrapp Falkiner Payne 153. Web ster Tulloch Cos Co moved three doors west to No 6 West Eighth street Phones 406 and 610.
The case against merchant Greenwald for assault was dismissed after the key witness Captain Peterwyn failed to appear. Greenwald’s store incident involved an alleged assault and subsequent arrest for illness, with witnesses noting the sequence of events and leading to the dismissal.
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