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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1894
Page
2
A local notice urges shoppers to buy furniture only at the city’s sole store offering varied styles and durable pieces at fair prices. The message emphasizes consistent pricing and trustworthy quality to protect buyers from poor purchases.
A promotional note describes new stock of tables in the store. It highlights mirrored library tables, extension tables, and desks with various tops, drawers, and carved borders. Prices range from four dollars fifty cents to fifty dollars, with a focus on affordability and stylish appeal.
A colonial style advertises chests with large mirrors and drawer space offered at various price points. It touts bargains with prices including 15 dollars and higher options such as 25 85 and 45 dollars, inviting interest for home furnishings.
A local retailer announces a large furniture stock with daily improvements and extensive showroom pieces. The store highlights ongoing purchases and readiness to display many new and pleasing articles in their rooms.
Readable lines describe Lot No. 1 a neatly carved open front piece with a price estimate of 6.50, and Lot No. 2 a carved desk with shape, a small drawer and pigeon hole. Prices are listed in dollars.
Fragmented OCR reading lists street fragments and partial names including 623 JANSAS avE and QUINCY st with stray numbers and letters. No clear event or context is present beyond scattered location-like tokens and misread identifiers.
Georgetown residents celebrate Owens victory in the congressional primary with bells, bonfires, fireworks, and a raised platform as crowds cheer in the streets. Breckinridge supporters switch badges amid debates on contesting the result while Louisville reports Owens gains a 415 vote plurality.
Civil engineer J W Staengele shot and killed Mrs Mabel Colvin on a Portiasp street yesterday afternoon and then killed himself. Colvin, recently from Woolwich Massachusetts, was in divorce litigation with her husband. Staengele reportedly pursued her despite her lack of interest. In Kentucky, Ben Duvall shot Ed Faulkner at Riddles Mills after a dispute over a contested vote.
A collage of short notices reports Nellie Grant Sartoris to spend winter in Washington D C cholera reports in Germany seen as exaggerated an explosion in Hudson Wisconsin injures seven a boy proclaims an accidental shotgun death in Nelson Missouri a freight worker killed in Missouri many more items note royal gossip Nobel patents new laws and violent crimes including a Mississippi lynching case and a Swedish celebration set for December 9.
News from San Francisco dated September describes the Sino Japanese war scene. Li Hung Chang may command continental forces as Japanese leaders adapt to the coast and fortifications. Reports cite terror in the north, uprisings, and censorship while coreal and Chinese mobilization disrupts trade and finances.
Loespex Sept 17 Chronicle features an interview with Sir John J OBrien governor of Newfoundland. He says confederation is not a live issue for Newfoundland but if raised the people would likely favor joining the United States over Canada. He notes no strong desire to sever ties with Great Britain.
Lieutenant Peary and companions Hugh Lee and Mathew Henson concluded a 45 day inland ice trek covering 140 miles in the Arctic. They report many hardships including half the crew disabled and most Eskimo dogs dead. They will remain at Falcon Harbor for another year as storms and floods challenge early attempts. Marie Abrigito Peary, born in September, joins the return voyage.
Sept 2. Tokio reports the revised treaty with England ratified August 25. The United States failed to seize Japan’s offer to negotiate with the great republic in major international matters. The agreement, after twenty years of effort by Japan, grants no immediate gains and will take at least five years to take effect, with Japan controlling any extension beyond 1890.
A large negro convention in Pineapple, Alabama, formed to study migration to Liberia. Ministers will travel to investigate and draft a contract with the Liberian ruler who promises twenty acres of land and tools per American family. The initial cargo caps at 300, with October sail, followed by many more if promises hold.
Eustor Rosewater leads Republican revolt in Nebraska as he plans to stump the state against Thomas J. Majors this week. He cites Congressional Records showing Majors twice faced forgery allegations while seeking a Nebraska seat, with the report signed by Thomas B. Reed and linked to actions in the District of Columbia. The Bee reports a full-page treatment.
In Bosvos on Sept 17 indications point to one of the largest strikes in clothing history as meetings endorse abolishing the jam-ping system, adopting weekly wages, and fixed hours. Averted if employers concede. otherwise a strike will be ordered. Also notes Van Horn's Republican bid for Congress in the fifth district and a 96 year old man found wandering in New York.
The column promotes daily reach across the week, claiming that Topeka plans can be accessed more through this paper than any other. The excerpt emphasizes broad distribution and reader access as a key advantage.
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