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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1894
Page
5
Stevenson and Co. offers to buy plain corset covers at 15 and 19 cents and a V shape neck cover at 25 cents. Hemstitched Torehon lace options cost 35 cents. The material in these goods is worth more than the whole article.
The note describes purchasing a skirt with a ruffle and three tucks priced at 49 cents a skirt. It mentions a trim with ruffles and torchon edge at 65 cents. A skirt with three tucks, a ruffle, and a braided ham burg style is listed. An underwear line was bought for the sale with quoted very low prices.
A buyer advertises Drawers with 3 tucks and various trims at prices from 25c to 50c. Mentions ruffled edges Torchon Hamburg braided wide edges and mentions Wednesday as the day to remember.
Rev. K Wake, a Methodist preacher who refused Republican ties over prohibition, preached at Lowman Hill M E Church arguing Christianity must evolve to create a Christian civilization. He denounced social conditions as relics of barbaric times and urged union of religion with social reform to uplift the weak and curb wealth concentration.
A damaged text fragment discusses 719 Kansas Avenue and a moral appeal to give all of God's children equal opportunity. It references divine will and reliance on a Spirit’s guidance, but provides no clear event, date, or concrete actions.
Advertisement lists night dresses priced at 48c 58c 69c and 78c with trims including Torchon edge hemstitch braid Hamburg ruffles tucked and braided designs. Stays promotional tone urging readers to take advantage for their benefit.
Royal Baking Powder earned the highest award in its class at public fairs and the World's Fair. Tests by the Agriculture Department showed Royal leavening strength at 180 cubic inches per ounce, far above competing powders. Its quality, fineness, delicacy, and wholesomeness boosted sales beyond all other brands for many years.
Odd items fill a local notice page as a Paris collector hoards seven hundred books not larger than one inch wide and two inches tall. A lawn meeting invites residents to discuss community topics at a Chester Avenue corner gathering next Wednesday night with speakers including Mrs. Lucia O. Case and LA Brebbins.
A Pittsburg Dispatch column reports the birth of a reform party led by Corey from Eleventh Street Braddock area. A large crowd feasted at a barbecu e while speakers attacked old party corruption. Supporters urged replacing officeholders with honest leaders and warned against power entrenchment.
Absorbent social notes from Topska recount Miss Marie Brooks hosting a farewell for Daisy Starr and Lou Nash bound for university, with needlework prize to Ida Stagg. The column lists guests, picnics at Garfield Park, travels to Emporia, Chicago, Denver, and Kansas City, and a flurry of visits, trips, and campus plans among local residents and visitors.
In Denver on September 4, the unified Democratic conventions ended with harmony in the party. F. P. Arbuckle becomes chairman of the new state central committee, A. B. McKinny chairs the executive committee, and the platform calls for restoration of the 1867 free coinage policy at 16 to 1 without discrimination. It denounces the American Protective Association as dangerous to peace.
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