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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1894
Page
2
Bloom ED com proclaims one price policy and denounces discounts as frauds. It cites a lounge sold at 20 dollars, while a rival offers 28 with a 25 percent premium on the lounge priced at 24, arguing true value lies in universal discounts and personal examination of real values for new furniture needs.
A fragmentation of an old ad promotes Heywood carriages with large sale volume and low prices. It extols steel bed springs of various qualities and highlights a $3.50 price for a cone spring, urging buyers to replace inferior springs and emphasize comfort and durability.
Experienced housekeepers and furniture dressers note the luxury of first plane hair mattresses costing 20 to 95 dollars. Lower grades 15 to 20 dollars. Down feather pillows offered from 5 dollars upward. Common feather pillows 2.75 and up.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions prices around four dollars and an implied event at a local venue. Names and exact dates are unreadable, but the text suggests a sale or fare event with a price point of four dollars. Further details are not legible.
Nineteen funerals held in Kossuth county with many injured as a devastating cyclone damages towns around Manly and Rockwell. The storm caused massive destruction at properties including the Henry Durant section and George Homans home, with multiple fatalities feared and relief efforts under way as telegraph wires fail.
A Berlin Times dispatch quotes a Chinese legation official saying China cannot abandon Corea even if war lasts thirty years. Koreans remain hostile to Japan, resisting surrender terms, while Count Aoki downplays Chinese casualties and denies Japanese massacres in Tokio. He says Japanese aim to press demands and invade China with resolve.
Sanatovn Sept 24 A Democratic party scene in flux as no governor candidate is set with four names in play Gaynor Thacher Cook and Hill are the leading contenders Lockwood was discussed but is seen as out. Efforts may try to draft Cook for a second position if Gaynor or Hill secures the nomination.
William J. Burns of the U S secret service and Deputy U S Marshal Harry A Adams arrested a man in Guxroy aged about 30 with aliases including J B McCullah and W L Strong He faces forgery and fraud charges with connections to Arkansas Louisiana New York St Louis St Joseph and Atlanta authorities report.
A devastating blaze at 4 30 pm yesterday in the dock of the Pacific Coast Elevator company at Portnaxp Ore destroyed property valued near 1 5 million dollars over three hours winded weather hindered fire crews and three men are believed lost The elevator held nearly half a million bushels of wheat and damage spread through cement wool salmon and general merchandise across the Oregon Railway and Dock company vessels and freight The insured loss is expected to top 900 000 with extensive damages to the Willamette Chief and other assets
Railway Age reports of 120 roads in the United States and Canada only 13 show earnings gains for eight months ending August 31. aggregate gains total $1,059,565 while losses hit $49,560,054 with dramatic deficits on Santa Fe Northern Pacific New York Central Milwaukee and St Paul and others. Also notes escapes from jail, a Vienna apoplexy claim, a cycling record, a fatal freight collision, and a coal price line.
Tucson and Tombstone hosted meetings denouncing the War Department order to remove troops from the San Carlos Reservation. Resolutions urged opposition to the move, citing 3,500 Indians on the reservation and nearby forts.
Briefs report a Mount Sterling judge J M Van Arsdell dying after ingesting carbolic acid. Other notes include passengers revived on a tour ship to New York and ex governor John Lee Carroll among them. Albany County Democrats elect leaders, Allison and Gear speak at a campaign event. The Nevada Silver Party praises John P Jones for leaving the Republican fold. Kansas Masons dissolve lodges pending assessments. Brewery Workers convention in Cleveland reelects A Auriskbabe and C Bechtold. HQs to stay in St Louis.
A satisfied customer endorses D Witt's Early Risers as a remedy. The ad promotes relief from constipation indigestion and abdominal discomfort, naming J. A Jones as part of the endorsement.
Washington reports 60 000 acres of railroad land grants still pending in the war department with many claims from the past decade. Records show patent totals around a half million acres for the year ending June 30, and earlier years saw higher figures up to millions. Officials foresee rapid patenting as mineral land issues clear and surveys accelerate.
Frank Bradshaw says he can walk on his injured right foot and may meet Younkman again. He reflects on losing to Younkman near town on September 7 and continues working at the state printing house while recovering. Given the injury, he doubts ring return but believes better with time and friends speculate a rematch if fully healed.
North Topeka items report Tev A Danielson moving his family southward and Hinkey Hamilton returning from a two week Indians visit. A demonstration is planned on the streets by Jambeau clot and Miss Mary Houblum attends Veiled Prophet events. Bowen and Nichola visited from the university for the weekend. Preston Movorehouse, 17, died this morning of quick consumptive at his Holman street home. Mrs J C Arnold plans to visit Hormona Dakota this week. North side residents toured Eri Hansford's sorghum mill, praising a barrel of molasses made while you wait. Golden Rule Lodge near A M and A B had sixty six members in a lively procession. A.J. Arnold & Son offer homeopathic remedies at 21 Kunave. There appears to be no white capon organization near the reform school. A troubled house has driven out occupants after warnings by about fifteen men. The Bean Kool Scraped. Vallety, Cal, Sept. 24. Bennington hull scraped at Mare Island navy yard. hull has corroded keels and rivets needing repair.
Home seekers' excursion program offers multiple Santa Fe route tickets to Texas Colorado New Mexico Utah Wyoming Arizona Idaho Arkansas Louisiana and southwest Missouri with varied sale dates and return policies. Special trains from Kansas City to Topeka after Priests of Pallas parade available.
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