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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1898
Page
3
A Topeka cash dry goods note asks customers to visit Wiss Wilson in the A department for service due to her heavy workload. She requests consultations tomorrow forenoon or Thursday afternoon, signaling reliance on regular sales staff.
The snippet paints a crowded, garbled panorama of daily events. Mentions include a courthouse repair, upcoming baseball plans, a new house on Elm Street, and various social, theatrical, and educational notes. Names and places reflect a bustling late 19th or early 20th century local scene with sparse coherent structure.
A vintage advertisement touts the Pyramid Pile Cure as a pain free, non opioid suppository treatment for piles. It claims instant nerve soothing relief, no business disruption, and wide availability at stray prices, warning neglect may lead to chronic, fatal rectal diseases.
An old newspaper fragment markets Omaha bound travel via Santa Fe with a four fifty fare from Topeka and notes October 19 tickets. It includes testimonial lines by W B Cooper of Etaie Cal praising Charterlain's Cornet Remedy for families and children, plus local ad copy for five cent cigars and a product titled Eagle's Hour of Pleasure.
A Topeka palm reader, Paul Alexander Johnstone, studies Governor Leedy and aides P I Bonebrake Heflebower and Dr McCray through palm impressions. The piece details lines, mounts, and planetary influences to trace a career path from public service toward power, noting specific features on Leedy and Heflebower palms.
The article analyzes a detailed palm reading, interpreting lines of Heart Fate Life and Mercury. It links hand shapes to traits like tenacity, shrewd business sense, public ambition, wealth, and longevity, naming Jupiter Saturn and Venus influences and warning of possible disappointments before success.
A new trade with the Philippines has sprung up. In six to seven weeks at least three carloads of beer and six carloads of cigarettes have been sent there. Milwaukee and St Louis plants are shipping the beer, while Richmond, New York, and other eastern cities forward the cigarettes. The goods are for American soldiers, though oils may welcome them.
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