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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1895
Page
2
A grocery ad extols top quality and full satisfaction guarantees. It touts prices on sugar, coffee, tobacco, canned goods, flour, molasses, potatoes, crackers, tea, olives, ginger ale, and more with promised refunds if not satisfied, listing a wide array of items and expected vendors.
Readable product list showing California evaporated fruits and meats including large raisins apples pears currants peaches figs and citrus. Mentions Waltons brand ham sugar cured and smoked bacon lard and various dry salted products.
In Topeka society circles Lydia Hicks wed Edward L Walker of Lansing Kansas. The ceremony at 103 Woodlawn Avenue featured Attendants Isabelle Cone and Mrs Harvey. Guests included Mrs Walker, Mr and Mrs Walker of Lansing and visitors from Cleveland Ohio. A luncheon followed with Misses Short Ely Welch Stewart Cohn and others assisting. Dinner party plans and New Year festivities were noted as well as a death from diphtheria of Wildie Stone aged five.
Salvation Army cadet training moves from 70 Ya Bur en to a new headquarters near Fourth and Monroe, with nine cadets now in training and plans for larger garrisons in New York San Francisco Chicago and St Louis. A Dowager Empress of China story notes her rise from peasant girl to regent, praising measured missionary interpretation of Confucian teachings for success among Chinese people.
Mrs Stanford, widow of the Stanford founder, visits Washington as a Supreme Court decision frees her from selling jewels for Stanford University. She has created a Stanford memorial room at the university museum, gifting trophies, cups, and California mission relics amassed with her husband. The couple’s gifts are described as surpassing many long standing collections.
A tale notes a royal youngster craving freedom from royal duties. The nurse warns, “you are a little king,” prompting the boy to wish to be a normal child. The passage contrasts royal constraint with common childhood desire.
The French President Faure has purchased a villa at Havre to enjoy rural life with his family. Special coaches will serve regu lar items to Kanuss City on Topeka day November 23 for recommi nition. Great Football Game in Karaay ve and Missouri Fare offered for round trip 88. M. Prust, City Passenger Agent.
Gossip among Kansas railroad men reveals backstage chatter about crew changes, schedules, and safety practices. The snippet notes unnamed conversations, hinting at tensions over routes and management decisions affecting daily operations.
A Kansas rail commission hearing in Olathe addressed complaints by Frank Lauter a lumber merchant about demurrage fees charged by the Kansas Car Service association. Evidence suggested a regional pattern of charges, with cars held on sidings up to weeks, disadvantaging merchants in Olathe and neighboring towns.
Santa Fe engines 831 and 60 exit the Santa Fe shops for use in passenger service from Topeka to Nickerson. Engine 308 has been overhauled and plated, stored at the Sixth Street Round House for future use. Fireman W H Grayhill resigns to move to Chicago. engineer A B Mahan is discharged. Fireman Bushnell joins from the Burlington line. engineer Nate Hollinter off sick. Richard Assoss returns after a week. Others travel or are noted, including a gold medal presentation to James Downs for heroism at Gardner, Ill, in 1896 with subscribers’ purse for his widow.
Sad death of the yards depot in Atchison occurred after James Bloomington, longtime fundmaster at the union depot, died from a lung hemorrhage. Ellis witnessed a tramp crawl from beneath a Missouri Pacific passenger train car just prior, and the shock of seeing the perilous position is believed to have caused the fatal hemorrhage.
Kansas City reports Patrolman P M Crowley of the Fourth precinct faces a police board inquiry for drinking on duty after an incident near Twenty Street and Troost Avenue. Crowley, 39, had not touched intoxicants for over a year, and Chief Irwin vows zero tolerance for on duty alcohol use.
Chinese steamship Empress of China dispatches allege brutal killings by Korea's authorities. They claim the Korean queen and 13 ladies in waiting were tortured, burned, and beheaded, with others subjected to oil and torture in executions. The account paints Japan as merely feigning restraint.
In district court the trial gauges whether Hale Ritchie signed a $650 note securing money from Edl Nichols & Co for CC Trimmer. If Ritchie signed, he faces perjury. if not, Trimmer stands accused of forgery and perjury. The suit by Nichols targets all three. judgment may require Ritchie to pay.
The South Africens explorer and newspaper correspondent Carl Strekelmann is reported drowned on August 28. For ten years he served Tom Finson & Co of Liverpool as a special correspondent for the New York Herald across Africa. Ralph Mulvaney of the Salvation Army, who went to Texas, has returned and will attend the ball at Fourth and Monroe streets on The Savada Mexican.
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