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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1894
Page
3
War department ordnance officials study aluminum for small equipment. Samples display aluminum cups, belt buckles, books, and other gear. Officials expect the metal to equip drinking ware and possibly bayonets and accoutrements where light strength suffices.
Mr and Mrs J Willis Greed from New York plan a six week stay in London for business and legal matters they will return home after the trip. The party will not visit other European points.
Atchison women Aronson and Mrs Campbell depart for a world tour starting in San Francisco. Their itinerary includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Singapore, Calcutta, Aden, Cairo, Palestine, Rome, Naples, and other major sites, with travel by ship and rail, returning home after an extended voyage.
Cuantesrox, Sept. 20. Old King Democrats press to vote negroes against Tillmanites under registration laws. Law required 21 plus citizens to register by a date and obtain certificates to vote. Those missing certificates or late registrants face disfranchisement, with tricks blamed on campaigns. Circus ticket deals allegedly deprived thousands of black voters of registration, permanently removing them from the ballot.
A Times-Star report from Tritabic Tennessee recounts a barber shop mishap where a joker flicked a concentrated ray from a lens onto Jim Harber’s head, igniting bay rum in his hair and triggering a frenzied escape before bystanders and others doused the flames. doctors say Harber’s scalp may never regrow hair.
Chicago notes B P Hutchinson known as Old Hutch opens a cigar store opposite the board of trade offering good cigars for 1 cent with a bold red window sign promising two for 6 cents and 4 cent cigarettes. Hutchinson declines interview, stating he is simply selling cigars.
Liverpool receipts up while flour markets soften and corn bears weigh on futures. Wheat, corn and oats trade lower. pork and cattle prices adjust, with steady to active demand in some runs. Topeka notes cover local coal ads and corner-stone ceremony invitations.
An 1804 era notice advertises the Union Pacific excursion to Kansas City on September 2 with trains from Topeka at 7 45 and return times. City agent A M Feiven directs inquiries at the city office. Also includes multiple medicinal advertisements touting Beggs hair and blood products, and a cough cure sold by local merchants.
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