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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1894
Page
2
An advertisement extols buying only the best grade of substantial furniture from a local store. It cites growth over four years, credits new business methods and faith in the community, and notes expansion to larger showrooms at 617-019 Quincy to offer a broader stock. The message emphasizes value, quality, and local credibility.
Urgent bargain event for dining room furnishings with a wide range of sideboards dining tables and carved chairs. Large stock, new arrivals, and values from seven to sixty dollars aim to attract shoppers seeking quality at fair prices. Exclusive patterns and leather accents highlighted.
A fragment from a local ad notes the latest approved chairs for comfort in modern offices. The item highlights a big, splendid police chair as a standout option, praised for its comfort and recent improvements.
An ad touts all cloth Japanese screens with 4 fold and 5 foot high options, black panels with gold embroidery priced around 3 dollars, claiming original values up to 10 dollars. Also features bamboo screens, fold designs, and other screens from 2.75 to 4.50 dollars plus varied hair patterns.
The article forecasts key House committees in the coming congress led by Ways and Means, Appropriations, Rules, Currency, Coinage, Weights and Measures, Rivers and Harbors, and Public Buildings. It notes silver legislation and party policy on banking could reshape committee influence and names possible chairmen and shifts. Democratic senators in Washington weigh plans for the short session and party strategy.
A violent encounter near Pisht atwenadore Kentucky leaves John Ashby fatally wounded and Jack Beverin shot multiple times, with Officer Stuart injured. The brawl stemmed from a phony street confrontation in a disreputable house, drawing in eleven prominent locals as suspects. Police intervene as seven pistols are drawn and nineteen shots are fired.
An attempted train wreck occurred on the branch road four miles south of Husks last night. A bag car and a wenger coach derailed. Pion Gelgue was killed and Engineer Joseph Maviden seriously injured. Several news items follow in the paper.
Governor James Sheakley reports Alaska’s mixed spring conditions but notes new enterprises, profitable mines and fisheries, population growth, and expanded lumber manufacturing. He praises native adaptation and missionary work, cites education gains, alcohol control struggles, long coast and shoreline lengths, smuggling issues, and Treadwell Gold Mining profits at $144,005 with 219 stamps.
Funeral held for Con Riordan in Syracuse after he died following a Friday night attack by Bob Fitzsimmons at the Grail opera house. services led by Rev A S Durston. pallbearers included Fitzsimmons and others. body sent to Oakwood vault. Legal opinion suggests expert testimony needed to prove cause of death. indictments for manslaughter expected but likely acquittal.
A Vienna dispatch reports Zeit Pasha's forces killed 2000 Armenians at Sassum, leaving bodies unburied and sparking a cholera outbreak. Christians flee toward Russia as powers urged to enforce treaty protections. Britain urged to act. Chicago and Milwaukee crowds react with grief, and New York Armenians protest, urging appeals to czar, queen, emperor, and president.
A Wagner sleeper passenger train from Galveston carried a dozen cowboys who boarded at a small station in Indian Territory. They demanded whisky, smashed the buffet door, drank all the liquor for $19, and threatened to shoot. They cooled off after being seated in the smoking room, then left at the next stop with their loot and alarms abated.
A Yazoo and Mississippi passenger train near Panther Run, Mississippi, escaped robbery after Engineer PB A Honor throttled forward as armed men signaled to stop. Fireman Cole was seriously wounded in the cab as shots were fired. the attackers were inexperienced.
A fragmented cryptic verse evokes glowing insects along a riverbank. Vague phrases describe dim lights, silent shallows, and a nocturnal mood with imagery of lanterns and shifting reflections under the night sky.
A patchwork of scenes unfolds from a Kentucky mountains tale of a rural man pressured by an agent to buy a sewing machine as payment for a gun, with the wife weighing the offer. Other items note a century-old beam engine replaced by a modern one, early industrial notes, and curiosities from Cassier and other periodicals on birds and travel anecdotes.
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