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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1894
Page
6
Special correspondence from New York describes fall fashion trends with long waists, belted jackets, and ostrich plume trims. It notes coats for young girls differ little from last winter, bonnet styles, and the Marie Louise design remaining prominent. The piece reads like a period fashion digest with vivid detailing on fabrics, trims, and silhouettes.
A fragment describes garments and outfits including two buttoned coats, wide rovers, a white pighe vest with magenta cravat, cream billiard cloth cuffs, a black straw sailor hat with cream ribbon, tight gloves, and a notable red silk gown with a full back skirt and black velvet trim.
The text recounts the deteriorating friendship between Charles Lowell and Poe, noting mutual respect fading as Lowell criticized Poe after The Broadway Journal editors Briggs and Poe clashed. It describes Poe’s admiration for the author of Rosaline and Lowell’s defenses, the ensuing public exchanges, and Lowell’s later sharp rebuke over The Fables for Critics, with further tensions arising from reviews and unpublished passages.
A collection of scattered newspaper fragments reports a violent assault with a man dragging a woman and injuring bystanders, plus court-related chatter. Other notes describe a Japanese resident in town voicing confidence in Japan’s victory, a subpoena for witnesses in a defamation case, and humorous miscommunications in court.
A Philadelphia lawyer, told by a physician friend his lungs and heart would fail within a year, bets $1000 he will outlive the diagnosis. The pair, longtime friends, placed the stake in a vault and the lawyer traveled abroad, returning six months early to win the wager. He now seeks more bets of similar nature.
Advertises round trip fares and sale windows for Uargast Excursions across Texas Indian Territory Oklahoma Tennessee Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida with two dollar tickets and twenty day return, plus Kansas City and St Louis specials, state fair trips, and Union Pacific promotions. also promotes Krause Headache Capsules and various patent medicines with local dealer notes.
A grapevine grown beside a russet apple tree in Anjou France produced a cluster of 29 small apples on the stem that resemble grapes in form. The fruits show applelike blossom ends and contain seeds, sparking European pomologists to study the rare anomaly reported in La Nature, with observers noting the unlikely blend of grape and apple blossoms.
An elderly man named Wetherow suffered a violent hiccough spell until his mother in law devised a drastic home remedy. She fired a gun under the bed aiming at the mattress, inadvertently injuring him as the load burned his robe. The incident ends abruptly with unclear outcomes.
A jumble of historical clippings references odd editorials and local notices. It cites a Chicago Record note on a sudden inspiration and a Detroit Free Press exchange about a new teacher, then a Boston Transcript quip about a sailor, plus a Grand Trunk rail promo and a DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve claim.
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