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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1897
Page
5
An advertisement touts furniture combining modern and antique styles inspired by Napoleonic, Louis XIV, and Florentine eras. It highlights cheffoniers for closet space, iron beds from $4 to $20, folding beds at $45, Turkish rugs from $135, and dining chairs priced up to $40 per set, emphasizing quality, durability, and tasteful home refinement.
The Topeks and Atchison high schools played a gridiron game with Athieri ork substitutions. Key players included Kaene engin, Bund Caldwell, Hicken, Parks, Hats wey, Stewart, I. Stewart, Biartin, Castilde, and substitutes Sweet Therapous and MoKlraban.
A censored Athens dispatch reports great excitement in the Gyvek capital on Monday as hundreds of volunteers invaded Photekt shops, seizing clothing and food. Shopkeepers resisted with firearms, shops closed in panic, and troops dispersed rioters while arresting ring leaders. Rioters cited cold and hunger as their motive.
Cuba reforms passed by cabinet set a chamber of deputies 40 to 500 members with one deputy per 49 000 inhabitants and appoint an incentive committee of president and ministers of interior justice and public works. Governor general denied veto initiation. Arizona Chief Justice Hiram O Transdate died yesterday at 4 30 PM.
W J Trumbull owner of an art store at 720 Kasay Avenue was killed instantly in Kansas City last evening near the Union depot yards by a Santa Fe passenger train. He was en route from Topeka to Chicago, jumped from a moving train and was struck on Vine Street near the depot. The incident occurred after the train’s whistle and a brief stop at the depot, with local church members and authorities arranging funeral details.
Dr. J C Spencer reports tuberculosis found in cigars of Chinese origin and warns against Soda Mint Gum faked with removed caps. Mentions selling two packages and cautions buyers. Ad notices McGuire Lyons and North Topeka offer promotions. steam laundry advertises collar smoothing.
A large audience of Republican voters gathered at the Old Court House to hear candidates for Congress from the new district. Charles Curtis, a Topeka congressman, spoke amid applause while J G Slonerker chaired the meeting and urged party unity. The speakers defended Republican tariff policy and attacked Democratic and Populist positions, urging turnout for election day.
Police in Faure Paris seize the German paper Lous Ugblatter found on Paths 10e Gol Kansay avenue containing cartoons about President Faure and the French cabinet.
A report on Eowin Curtis Mowton age 36 and Maude Watermain Hostim age 2 wedding ties to political life in Chicago. Curatorial notes mention Curtis as ex-mayor of Bakton and a Republican candidate amid factional Gadetur politics. The piece reflects wartime era rhetoric and local political intrigues without graphic detail.
Kansas City October 2 The Army and Navy union censures newspapers for printing news. Resolutions claim enemy praise equals treason and urge better treatment of soldiers while condemning misused public funds and press bias. The note also touts a dubious patent remedy and a drug ad ends the page.
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