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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1895
Page
8
Thompson Brothers announces agency for two renowned bedroom suite factories known coast to coast for excellence of workmanship price variety. Readers see these two factories listed on our doors along with the Great Grosd Hex storefront hinting at low retail rates.
A catalog of curly birch bedroom suits is offered with full size bedsteads, French plate oval mirrors, dressers and washstands. Prices range from 25 to 125 dollars in varying elaborateness, urging buyers to consider the collection as a worthy purchase.
Buyers seek value and quality in hair mattresses with prices from $2.25 to $30. The store argues genuine comfort costs at least $20 and promotes made-on-Risher buir t mattresses priced $28 to $30. Cottontop mattresses start around $2.25 to $5.
Sanitary feather pillows advertised as pure and odorless with special care at the factory. Prices stated from $4 to $5.30 for standard pillows and paired sets at $1.25 per pair.
A Victorian style discussion extols high quality beds with vented springs and mattresses for strength and daily ease. It mentions a buyer purchasing a nine dollar spring, a twenty five dollar Weir mattress, and a three dollar bedfield, seeking a bed he would love as the four hundred spring bed.
RUGS. Wr tinva all kinds of the new ones. Signst patterns and new weaves that you can't dind in other stores. First and second qualities of Smyrnas fed Japanese rocs implenty, Pop miler prices prevail.
A sales pitch touts bed lounges priced at ten dollars while contrasting higher costs of twelve to sixty dollars elsewhere. The ad urges shoppers to compare our stock with rival offerings and promises a wide variety of couches and lounges at low prices.
Beastsos candidates Dr. Taylor of Topeka and W M Glenn of Greeley county contend for grand master as Kansas Odd Fellows hold a three day Topeka meeting in Representative hall. Parade leads by Militant rank Monday morning from National hotel. evening Kremlin Odessa Muscovites parade. stalls and contests planned with Daughters of Rebekah meeting at Hampton. Two thousand visitors expected. local Odd Fellows hope for success.
A collage of names tracks visits and moves among Topeka residents with trips to Kansas City. Ada Fladd of Waterville plans a cousin visit while W L Byers begins pastoral duties in Keokuk. Nomination papers filed for state and judicial offices as locals seek political action. Landscape gardener W W Parco hired to plan capital grounds.
Judge Foxter has recovered fully. Miss Lottie Bowes to perform with the Alabama company in Topeka next Tuesday evening. The city contemplates new public works. Senator Pat youre and the circus coming, while a fire department project and school improvements proceed. Police report oddities and quirks as Topekans note travel, rents, and a broken trolley wire. George Hackney builds on lower Kansas avenue, legal notes on fees posted, and a mail carrier receives a ninety day jail term.
A fire yesterday damaged the cellar of the Wintrode residence at Tenth and Harrison but was extinguished without the fire department. A Topeka man warned against taking a young woman to a Kansas City carnival. Henry Hammond, known for fights at Willard, obsesses over dime novels. W C Garvey, Santa Fe depot agent, denies Wichita loss rumor on general principles citing a Wichita man involved.
New charters filed with the secretary of state reveal several groups. The Baldwin City Sunflower club seeks religious ideas and morality with capital stock of 20 dollars and directors including George Pattison and Peter W. Garrett. The General Assembly of the American Associations of Missouri is a secret society based in St. Louis, and The Sons and Daughters of Jacob of Leavenworth organized for benevolent and charitable purposes with trustees listed.
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