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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1895
Page
5
A bustling list of items and prices from The Star Grocery promises more value than rival stores. It highlights staples like Navy beans, flour, evaporated peaches, corn meal, table salt, cheese, and canned goods, signaling a broad daily stock and competitive discounts.
A garbled OCR fragment lists assorted canned goods and pantry items including vegetables, peas, tomatoes, beans, sardines, oysters, and beef products. The text appears as a jumbled inventory with several misspellings and unreadable portions, reflecting a period newspaper shopping notice or market stock snippet.
A list of meat and lard prices includes various salted and cured items. Dry salt meat priced per piece, sugar cured hams by pound, sugar cured bacon, and good lard priced per pound. Also gyoked ham offered at a per pound rate.
Public urged to seek free medical treatment during October with a full month of free care including consultations examinations medicines minor operations bandaging and truss fittings. Claims doctors are European trained with long experience and will not treat incurable cases. Includes testimonials and sensational anecdotes to persuade readers.
A Santa Fe train ran between Topeka and Dodge City yesterday on the old leaving time and then on the cake schedule, covering over three hundred miles by 11:05 last night. It pulled out of Topeka at 4:25 pm and stopped briefly at Newton for supper, making seven short halts. The trip, averaging 52 miles per hour, is described as one of the fastest west of the Missouri River, beating No. 8 on the sea schedule by an hour and ten minutes.
An American in London reports on the British House of Commons with vivid portraits of members dress and demeanor. He praises parliamentary speeches as plain and direct while noting a motley, diverse assembly and sharp contrasts with Washington. A brief notice advertises an Oxford club meeting and a One Minute Headache Tablet trial at a hotel steam laundry.
Sedre Johnson presides over rapid California train plan linking Atlantic to Pacific with fast connections. Reports show Santa Fe officials and staff in Topeka Chicago and Kansas City discussing timetable and equipment. Also notes on a fatal accident, a damage suit, and depot plans in Hutchinson Kansas.
A Topeka invention by Captain J Lee Knight offers a weather strip for doors that automatically closes cracks, adapting to worn thresholds. Endorsed by mayor and several builders, the device claims automatic adjustment, simple design, and near perfect sealing for rain, snow, cold, and dust.
Sixteen horses were stolen from J. P. Campbell's pasture five miles south of Maple Hill Sunday night. Campbell, in the city, tracked a suspect and later telegrams from Maple Hill say the cattle were recovered. Authorities point to W. B. Alums, formerly a mortgagee, as the man who took the horses. he refused pasture offers last spring while Campbell planned to sell them for keeping.
The article recounts a Topeka Populist league gathering where De Brownfeld failed to appear as promised and delivered a reading criticized by Radford. Brownfeld denounces silver or gold monetization, praises the US Constitution, and predicts a Republican landslide with Bob Rapley’s election. Marshall opposes more government bonds for bridges.
Centenary of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington to be celebrated the week of November 17. Notable pastors Rev. Bran Sunderland Rev. T Dewitt Talmege and Rev A Allen. Former members invited to attend exercises or send current address to Theodore F Sargant elder 1822 Easton? Cortheagt.
Fragmentary newspaper ad lists varied goods such as dill pickles canned honey soaps jams cereals and household items with unclear quantities and brands. Reads like a crowded price board from a general store or market column with items including honey soap jam and canned spinach.
Chicago officials receive a cryptic letter from Amiens France addressed to the notary chamber president in Chicago. It questions the 1982 claim that American chemist John Gundey left a vast Ohio fortune to Jacques Boyer of Chicago, who may be dead. Authorities see no Cook County death record for Gundey or Boyer and seek records to clarify the alleged legacy's existence.
Chicago officers mix citizen attire with police duty in plain clothes to fight hold-ups and highway robberies. The new practice, backed by authorities, claims several crooks and confidence men have already fallen into their hands as the city battles a persistent thief gang. A medical ad paragraph is tacked on at end, promoting Beggys Little Giant Pills for digestion.
At a Texas Live Stock association executive committee meeting in Dallas on October 2, the committee adopted a resolution deeming reports of large Mexican cattle imports into Texas as exaggerated. The panel found imports would not exceed 100,000 head this year and would not affect cattle prices or state interests.
Local Populists and businessmen met in Milwaukee to push for hosting the Populist national convention. They planned a fund of 5000 dollars to cover expenses and appointed Mayer Koch B H Wilkins and Robert Schilling to manage the effort.
Colonel W. O. Bradley, Republican candidate for Kentucky governor, states he is certain of victory, estimating a lead of at least 15,000 votes over the Democratic rival after reviewing figures and local disturbance allowances. He spoke from a car in Louisville, noting campaign satisfaction and careful polling. Executive moves: bank president J. P. O’Dell of Chicago expects retirement for health reasons on Jan 1. continues to hold banking roles.
An advertisement for MUNYON doctor David J. Buckley in New York claims Mic Meyon's Rheumatism Cure rapidly relieves wrist and body rheumatism with a formula of proteols salicylate and morphine. It touts cures in one to five days and offers free medical advice via a Philadelphia address.
Letters to Edward P Cragin and J L Palion of the Chicago Cubas committee arrive from all parts of the country offering volunteer service. Writers express strong patriotism and urge U S support for Cuba, with many ready to fight Spaniards and other foes if needed.
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