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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1897
Page
3
A partial readable shopping note lists Kennedy items such as fresh ginger snaps 10 lb pails white fish clean rice three packets Ralston pancake flour several tablespoons sago tapioca evaporated peaches evaporated apricots tobacco green peas soap and butterine vanilla extract. It shows mixed grocery and household goods with vague quantities.
About 25 000 people viewed the big parade at the third annual corn carnival in Atchison held yesterday drawing large crowds and substantial local celebration with weather favorable for the event.
Atchison hosts third annual Corn Carnival with large crowds arriving by Central Branch trains from Auburn and nearby, and Missouri Pacific service. The Topeka Knights lead the procession with Marshall's band, delivering a lively show as speakers and prize floats delight festivity.
Voices merged in the big band and chorus as Mozart Gloria from the twelfth mass was sung led by J H Daves. The combined twelve bands impressed a carnival crowd in Atchison where one arrest occurred for vandalism after a man slapped a woman with a bladder as a special officer nabbed him.
Miss Eva Beem of Hutchinson was acquitted in Wichita on September 24 after a trial on charges of embezzling 1800 from the post office. The acquittal occurred as ballots were being counted, drawing sympathetic spectators from Hutchinson who expect her reinstatement in the postal service.
A Kansas City ex-pelleeman named Guurier conducts religious services in a Lawrence tent. His female converts display trance-like reactions, raising hands and falling backward during purification rites. A straw-beaded barrier surrounds the altar as the trance progresses.
Fort Scott police board troubles swirl as councilman Archibald Davenport nears completion of a play featuring Gov Leaty as a lead. Billy Duck with Incal amateurs stage the farce amid awkward Leedy incidents and a reunion of ex-puliteers. News notes say Port Scott delegation heads to Topeka seeking another change and there is mention of a district court break next.
Rail officials in this city discuss a cattle stampede when fourteen cattle from Ben Tungie and T W Hollingsworth escaped the Choctaw pens and headed for Rock Island yard. The herd was shipped north on Rock Island route after the breakout. An attached Rock Island statement explains cattle intended to check at Santa Fe but diverted to Rock Island. Santa Fe Investigation underway at Lang after wreck near Emporia. Assistant General Superintendent Avery Turner leads inquiry with witnesses in Lang station. Findings remain pending with possible conclusions released later.
A Santa Fe official praised Engine Hollister and Fireman Gonselley for their expert care days before a wreck near Larg station. Higginson and Player, who praised them, died when the same engine, under Hollister’s supervision, failed and crashed while pulling the No. 1 California train.
Conductor W W Proctor of this city, known among Santa Fe men in Kansas, will have a unique operation on his left foot this week. A toe joint will be removed and the toe straightened due to rheumatism, after it twisted across neighbors. Proctor left the train at Argentine and came to the hospital. Two new engines for Dodge City arrived in city. plans call for distribution to La Junta, Newton, Topeka, and other locations.
Dr Thomas Powell, recently arrived from Missouri, has written to the state board of health proposing to inoculate himself with the most virulent germs including yellow fever to disprove current disease theory. He aims to demonstrate under medical supervision the effects of the germs and seeks stringent precautions against any deceit.
In Santa Fe New Mexico in September 41 A a Chinese man Yee Lee was brought to the territorial penitentiary and fined 1409 dollars after being convicted of smuggling Chinese from Mexico. It is believed to be the first such case under the Gary act. United States Marshal Foraker left to escort ten other Chinese ordered deported by the United States court at Silver City to San Francisco.
Chicago today dispatched twenty five street cleaners in yellow uniforms to tackle downtown waste and obstructed alleys. About twenty more suits ready soon. Emphasis on cutting paper waste and keeping alleys open for pedestrians and light traffic. Women Carry Canes Gains Fashion Status in New York. A fashion fad for canes resurges as stylish walkers favor carved walking sticks and tassels.
A college government at Jabard University was abandoned today after students dominated by seven voices, three of them students. President Nash laments the failure of the system with costs tied to laundering to look new by Peerless Steam Laundry, located at 4 West Sch St.
Seattle dispatch profiles District Attorney Bennett warning of deadly White Pass conditions as Alaska gold seekers crowd Skaguay and Dawson City. He cites potential deaths, harsh winter, and urged federal action to establish governance while noting limited crime and ongoing efforts to maintain order.
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