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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1894
Page
8
The ad touts chamber suits and hair mattresses with steel springs as the key to refreshing sleep and energy for daily duties. It highlights affordable bed steaders and notes a welcoming hat rack sign inviting customers in. It also promises the city’s handsomest and best grates at affordable prices.
In Topeka we stock attractive sideboards in the Quincy street store room. The dining room display highlights their importance as both a functional piece and decorative adjunct. Prices start at $15 and rise to $17 and more, with several cheaper options available.
Folding beds with paneled fronts are offered as olive colored at a price. Newest folding beds can be draped in silk and fabrics and priced around 12 dollars. Iron cradle for children and three styles of folding cots and fancy beds are also advertised along with other furniture for the rising generation.
There is no reason a refined woman should miss the chance to display costly chita or silver plate. Inspecting art treasures in a China Cabinet brings them into distinct relief in proper light and style. Various pat terne finishes offer fine opportunities for selection.
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled lines with names and places including HOMPSON WERO S HOMPSON Bros SEC MUINCY ST and Gipsy YUINCY. Likely a damaged notice or ad segment referencing prices or stock and a tavern or store context. No clear event or outcome readable.
Rev J D Botkin tells Topeka crowd that modern industry enslaves labor as Africa did, urging Christian reform. He cites Jesus as a model preacher who served the poor and calls for Golden Rule labor justice, class critique, and reforms to curb exploitation by capital.
The article reports insurance companies reluctance to insure anarchists like Most and Timmermann. It cites agents who refuse policies on life or household goods, calling anarchists peculiar and cowards at heart. The Topeka column also lists local civic events, meetings, rebounds, and upcoming notices.
Populist state central committee member Cristian Breidenthal dismisses Henderson’s charges as unproved accusations. He defends the party against misrepresentation, calls for full investigation, and urges the public to see through what he calls political falsehoods. He notes Henderson is a Populist and predicts investigations will reveal facts.
Des Moines reads that attorneys plan action to shut down about 45 saloons under the mulet law. The move targets saloons in Des Moines city but likely spares fair week. Officials argue the petition lacks the required fifty percent signers and is deficient by at least 300 names, potentially invalidating the request and forcing a new petition with 500 names or more.
Royal Baking Powder earned the highest award at a world fair for leavening strength. Official tests show Royal at 160 cubic inches of gas per ounce, 20 percent above its nearest competitor and 44 percent above the average of others. Wholesomeness and fineness also cited. Royal sales exceed all others.
Labor Day brought little relief as the mills of justice ground on at the police court. Jack Morrison appeared, bearing the blot of a tarnished name for disturbing the peace. The evidence implied guilt and a fine was imposed.
On Labor Day 1804 Topeka court records show James Bes intoxicated on cider with a suspended sentence and twenty days in jail after a drenched arrest. Harry Rutherford tied to alcohol faced a five dollar fine, while Tony Smith’s trial was moved due to his wife’s absence. Green McGregor and Mary Norman were released after weak evidence, ending the session.
Department Commander Campbell selects the Santa Fe and Baltimore Ohio as the official eastbound route for the national encampment in Pittsburg. The train from Topeka departs 2 PM Saturday September 8 with Pullman sleepers and free chair cars. Comm rades and families invited. tickets on sale September 7 and 8, valid through September 28 with stopoffs allowed between Chicago and Pittsburg. agents Tara Rowney Hills Southeast Corner Sixth and Kansas.
The Rock Island route offers a Saturday 3:00 pm departure from Topeka for Pittsburg via Chicago and the Eire. A private car will be attached for the Women’s Relief Corps president. Fares include Colorado Springs round trip eighteen dollars and fifteen cents and Democratic League round trip over seventeen dollars. Also notes local ads for Snow's Pine Expectorant and a Kansas Avenue tailor.
Joenejuaei trot led by jgome with three ponies while Roy Crawford drove two in tandem. Floats and merchants displays followed, including cowl wagons, two with Plands and organs, a fur furniture display, wagons with timber, and a blacksmithing firm staging horse foiling. The telephase construction gang rode on B wagon. A transfer wagon carried 25 boys who cheered loudly as the parade reached First Street then Ninth before dispersing. about fifty buggies and carriages trailed the procession amid a large crowd.
Labor Day crowds near twenty thousand joined a citywide street parade in New York with trades represented from cloak makers to theatrical workers. The march moved along Fourth Avenue and gathered at Central Labor Council activities with families enjoying the event at Bretner's Camp.
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