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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
11
A fragmented old text contemplates Turkey as the center of global attention and suggests nations plan to “carve” it the near future. It contrasts households willing to partition foreign turkey with a single exception regarding Grover Cleveland and a metaphorical bite of crow.
Thanksgiving themed shop window copy touts Black and Blue Twisted Cheviott suits Union made with perfect fitters. It claims prices from 5 to 7 dollars on low end and up to 10 dollars and beyond for higher grade suits, asserting superior quality and lower prices than competitors.
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. Local items include social notes, school shifts, and church happenings. Ex-Governor Osborn sits on a coal company board, Topeka Salvation Army expands, and a high school choir forms a large student chorus for winter rehearsals.
A jumble of local items reports Cromwell moving a wheel, Miss Maxwell leaving and recovering, J K Christy arriving from Bedalia Mo, and ex representative Val Brows visiting Thompsonville. It also advertises cash sales on Owl heating stoves, rockers from Firemen No 1 station, local groceries, a Megnet Restaurant, Prudius wholesale fruit and confectionery, and Bell Photo services in North Topeka.
A Potwin city marshal reports a dugout in the woods between Potwin and nearby, used by six youths for a makeshift poker game with cards. A witness described dirt mounds and a hidden cellar-like room where the youths gathered, looking flurried as the game continued.
A Topeka railroad farewell honors Mr John Parcell once foreman at the Santa Fe round house. He faced a staged desertion reprimand by engineers and firemen who presented him with a diamond ring and a gold chain as a token of friendship and esteem before his transfer to the Argentine round house.
Charles Begie's cigar store was broken into for the second time in two months. The burglar gained entry by breaking a pane in a miner window, opened the money drawer, and took about 150 dollars. Earlier thefts emptied pennies. pennies were left this night. No other items appeared stolen and the thief's remaining possession included unrelated items. Don’t buy Harne es Goode until you see Calvert at 616 Kansas Avenue.
General Caldwell Skye and others debate capital punishment with clergy lines drawn. Caldwell argues abolition while noting pardons and legislative divides. references Shawnee County prisoners and religious factions. Also mentions a Galena Cherokee County charter, stock, and directors, plus local ball game and Xmas photo reminders.
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