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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1899
Page
5
Readers glimpse a jumble of 20th Kansas mentions and scattered items from Topeka and San Francisco travel plans. References include Topeka departure, funeral attendance, officials appointment, poetry notes, and local curious events amid unclear OCR text.
Fragmentary text references Topeka, barbers raising charges, a board meeting, military etiquette, and a trial or detention decision. Names and places are garbled. key facts are hard to extract, offering only stray mentions of a fee dispute, a trial, and security matters without coherent context.
A backers report from Kansas City notes the Lambard Italian Grand Opera company disbanded Saturday night and reassembled with Signorina Cytamarini. Fred Colyer, former Topeka native now in Los Angeles, retires as manager. Signorina Banlucci and Signorina Pollestini join, while the rest of the company continues a tour to Town, Nebraska, and nearby states. A Denver arrivαal yielded only partial funds. a draft was unsuccessfully cashed, causing tensions with the American staff. Collamarini defends managerial aims. Colver discusses past salaries and a sizable sum remains tied to the South American and Mexican engagements.
In Albion vicinity on a Sunday a neighbor, Mrs A McLane, struck Michael Aukenbrand with a hatchet near Kitchens bridge after a quarrel at a church event. The incident ended in death. The report notes a child in the assailant’s care at the time. A separate notice invites Bancae racing participants to a drill and instruction session, and an ad lists five cent steps at The Bennett Book Store on Kansas avenue.
A Topeka society page profiles Cottonwood Falls clubs with Miss Mabel Wilson as guest, detailing a Monday dinner and card games. It catalogs the Ladies Social Union, Benevolent Society, Shakespeare, and Whist clubs, their officers, members, and charitable activities in a lively, period-voice society roundup.
West against East in San Francisco on October 4 the Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers association is organized with Wakefield Baker as treasurer Thomas P Smith as secretary Executive committee includes leading merchants from Seattle Tacoma Portland Sacramento Los Angeles and Marysville The group aims to shield robbers on the coast from St Louis and Chicago competition seek interstate commerce commission rate cuts for small shipments and push for a Pacific commissioner to fill a current vacancy while backing W F Wheeler for the post.
Review of the Monday night showing of Two Mercy Tramps at Crawford theater notes mixed reception with satisfactory bike rider and burlesque acts, dancing and banjo numbers praised, some painful bits criticized, crowd filling balcony and gallery, second performance scheduled tonight.
Twenty one tables at the Topeka Whist club reception on West Sixth Avenue drew eighty four players for an evening of games with cigars lemonade and a luncheon. Two twelve game tournaments will be held this season with prizes. High scores were posted by Lagerstrom Washburn and Wood Scott Putnamesd Pennekamp among others.
The article cites 189% January figures detailing the Russian railway length of 26.358 miles including Asian lines, 3503 vessels passing Suez with 2295 British flagged, and 1393 receipts the largest since opening. Dewey era parade traffic stacks Brooklyn bridge cars and elevated rounds with millions of riders and a low accident rate. It notes timber plantation for railway ties, explains a planned thorough statistics project on travel and transport from ships to rails, but warns work stalled after partial data. The piece laments incomplete official accounting and promises a more thorough future census.
An obscure Kansas City ad notes a sale via the Santa Fe on October 22 and 23 with return valid until October 30. Mentions six trains over two days and references a person named Goe or Gins with a health claim about curing and saving something.
The text discusses stage roles in Beriian theater and mentions Fraulein X inviting trends, plus reflections on marriage rites through history. It references Victoria and Edward of York, a loadstone symbolizing attraction, and the bridal ring as an enduring symbol across eras.
Fragmented readable parts describe a sequence involving bottles, a system, and names like Petlie and Sikree. Many words are garbled. key entities and events are not recoverable.
A fragmented review notes a splendid heart roganltabe performance in Kansas City with unnamed performers. The piece hints at a renowned organizer and a prominent doctor in attendance, describing the event as energetic and remarkable.
A garbled notice mentions a $2.67 fare on the Santa Fe line from October 22 with return trips. It also refers to Prof. W. S. Hariting, graduate of Weltmer Institute, offering a free magnetic healing treatment on Wednesday in October.
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