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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1897
Page
6
Social items outline recent Topeka and vicinity events with named guests and hosts. Visitors and locals attend parties, dances, and weddings. includes engagement and travel notes, lists of party attendees, and upcoming socials at clubs and homes.
Mr and Mrs McCarter spent the evening enjoying music and games. They plan to move to Burke County soon to begin their future home.
New York officials report the January law requiring state agencies to buy equipment and goods from prisons has boosted convict employment. Requisitions exceed $754,000 for inmate-made items, with Austin Lothrop noting the system aims at self-sustaining prisons and substantial statewide procurement. He cites nearly $10,000 spent this year and predicts up to $1,000,000,000 in next year’s trade, with prison products offered below market cost and profits directed to state institutions.
In St Louis Missouri on November 18 1900 two brothers Louis and Joseph Schrempp running saloons were seized by sudden paralysis at midnight. Louis suffered right side weakness while Joseph faced left side impairment. Louis remains critical while Joseph shown less severe effects. They left their bars and were aided by a passerby as doctors attend and hope for improvement.
Cambridge Mass November 15 The Grewlert XN rs machine in the world was exhibited by the Lawrence scientific school Harvard College The device delivers an astonishing electric motive force of 1200000 volts equal to the output of 2400 electric cars It emits a spark 48 inches long with condensers charged in two series and a swinging frame distributing them in parallel There are 0 condensers with a capacity of 20400 volts each The total storage cells number 10000 Professor Trowbridge confirms the spark length is proportional to voltage
Thermaeot Hermann finished their state convention yesterday with a concert and ball for visiting Germans. Officers elected for the coming year include Grand President John Schram Fron temic First Vice-President Jonest Lange Second Vice President dullus Zimmerman Grand Secretary Christian States and Grand Treasurer aneunt Hohn Tristene Roehike John Enoll Neumann Wichita. The ball followed the concert attended by visitors and local members. The Ladies auxiliary of the Sons of Hermann staged a feature event. The next meeting will be held at Purstpure in sax.
Dispatches report heavy fighting with acts of bravery as Major Des Voeus and a company of the Thirty sixth Sikhs attack an enemy village. Private Viewry of the Dorsetshire regiment is wounded but escapes, later battling a tribesman and reaching camp with two men and a prisoner. The exchange leaves blood on Vicary’s rifle and disrupts the British detachment amid a夜 of nighttime clashes.
Maurice Connell of Red Bluff California a veteran of the 1881 Greely polar expedition aims to lead a party to recover the Gresly collection left at Fort Conger and hopes to install it in the Smithsonian. He recalls surviving the Cap Sabine march and criticizes his pay cut from 1300 to 1200 while seeking funding and support for the daring Arctic mission.
A minister recalls preaching in a dilapidated church with a faulty pulpit. He describes his salary of about 40 a year and support from a generous parishioner who funded most church expenses. When asked how much repair would cost, he quotes 34 dollars and the woman declines, prompting a change of preacher and a year of hardship.
A quoted line from Fliegende Blätter features Fatty and Fielo perched high as cyclists approach. The exchange notes their effort to avoid a road traffic encounter, capturing a humorous moment in a clipped historical cartoon context.
Miss Clara J. Fisher of Milford Massachusetts became the first woman chosen as expert assistant to the state board of arbitration. A former straw hat factory overseer and Milford school graduate, she aided the board in setting wage standards during a strike and was paid seven dollars a day for her services.
The fragmentary chatter blends Cockney banter with misnamed figures Mr Perkins and Mr Evans, a shipbuilder worried that war ships sink while submarines float, and a bicycle theft remark from Welcome Cycle News.
Snippets from era papers joke about stage managers parlor debates and social wit. Quotes reference a would be theater pro, a long driving route, debating societies, and playful banter about love and propriety. The piece blends humor and misquoted lines from several publications for a collage effect.
A humorous New England tale from Uncle Josh Perkins describes a white woman who married a full blooded African. A misdirected search for her husband leads to a revelation about how she came to wed the peddler in a village on his route. The yarn ends with a blunt confession of choice and move forward.
The Em press of Chime reports that during recent exams at Sen Chang Pu students were asked to write an essay on Noah and his family or the repopulation of the earth after the flood This marks the first instance in Ching history that Bible knowledge was required in a state examination.
Market report shows wheat, corn, oats and provisions with weak to steady prices. Wheat opened easy and slipped from yesterday, corn in mixed demand with moderate offerings, oats down but crowding in the pit, and provisions dull with slight lower starts.
Kansas City livestock market shows mixed activity with Texas cows and steers featuring in receipts. Prices for steer lots and lambs are uneven as buyers and sellers adjust amid fluctuating futures and regional demand.
Market report from Topeka broker details active wheat with varied prices for No 1 2 3 4 8 grades and higher oats and hay activity, butter and eggs steady, sugar and coffee mixed, cotton spot prices in New York, including uplands middling quotes and 40 bale sales, with overall unsettled tone in grain and provisions markets.
A garbled report from Omaha and Minneapolis markets cites wheat prices and export shifts. Analysts note export demand fluctuates amid slow rhythm in December, with mentions of wheat, flour, and futures, alongside lapsed figures and scattered city notes.
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