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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1899
Page
8
A terse advertisement seeks funds by selling anti trust battons for ten cents each. The notice emphasizes urgent need for cash and offers a simple transaction with a fixed price. No additional details or contacts are provided.
A Populist state committee manifesto denounces trusts and calls members to fund anti trust efforts by buying anti trust buttons. It cites job losses from combines, price manipulations, and a war like framing of imperialism, urging loyal Republicans to support anti trust policy and campaign finance for the party.
Storm on Lake Erie yesterday afternoon drove winds up to seventy miles per hour capsizing several small craft on the western basin. Crews were rescued and reports indicate damage to houses in northwestern areas near McKinley in San Francisco. Abner McKinley, brother of the president, arrived escorted by Mrs McKinley.
The copy promotes Grape-Nuts as a natural brain builder, claiming its fully cooked, cream-treated grains aid brain and nerve function. It emphasizes cool, easy serving in hot weather and cites Battle Creek producers and availability at first-class grocers.
Scattered OCR noise covers a wide range of local items. Mentions Aaron Jelmoret and Burlington, Camp Fupston, Lawrence and Ottawa, Kansas City, Topeka, Meriden, and a Washturn football game. Notes on public events, concerts, personnel changes, and transportation. Vague references to individuals like Dan Wyatt, Frank Catherman, and Major Anderson, plus railroad and civic details.
Three weeks of the busiest selling in September left remnant stock of all kinds. Dress lengths skirt lengths waist lengths and children’s school dress lengths will fill three tables at attractive prices for quick selling.
A bargain lot of 30 dozen pillow shams and dresser scarfs from an importer's line offered at reduced prices. Items include 32-inch pillow shams and 45 to 54-inch scarfs with openwork centers and fancy edges, priced at 3 for 54-inch scarfs and 32-inch shams, or small lots from 75 cents to 150 dollars depending on quantity.
The article reviews a dramatic program at Hotel Topsy Durvyy with neon lights, rewire heater, and a Gay evening by St. Joule Fyet Dispatch. It mentions vaudeville entertainment including Rhoreltie, Teanga, Jamie de Witt, and a Hadie aid act, with a musical set by Le sonnets and Kisock. New acts include Alee Welbon and Folaby. A topical piece titled A Racorare Honeymonn is highlighted, with John Sti nae Hever Taree as a featured name, running for one week at five cents a ticket.
Washington reports Brigadier Charles Heywood favors adding another marine battalion to Cavite. The department has not yet approved it, but it is likely with Gen. Oda's plan to use more naval forces in the Cavite province. Admiral Watson is cutting forces at Subic and St Is, while Rear Admiral Bradford pushes for a stronger Pearl Harbor station. Great deeds expected of marines. Heywood selects men carefully. about 20 sharp shooters in Cavite battalions. A revolution erupts at Catamarca, Argentina, with seven dead and twelve wounded before order is restored.
Local shop showcases new Ingrains to Wiltons carpets from 25¢ to 3.00 per yard and a wide Drapery line. Tapestries silk and cotton from 4¢ to 5.00 per yard, ready-made portieres from 2.00 a pair, lace curtains and edgings in Arabian Irish Point Louis XIV Brussels Renaissance Swiss styles.
Complete rug department offers Wilton Rugs size 9 by 12 and other carpet sizes from 22.50 to 45.00. Oriental Rugs arrive in a large assortment with prices starting at 8.50.
Window shade work praised for satisfaction. Stock includes all colors. Trial encouraged. Screens feature a handsome line in gold and black. Your choice priced at 375 dollars.
The Ohio prudential committee of discharged Union soldiers establishes state headquarters in Columbus to campaign against Pension Commissioner Ivane. Veterans across Ohio threaten to vote against the administration nominee Nash if pensions are not corrected, with thousands of veterans urged to join coordinated actions before the election.
New Albany Indiana September 25 Miss Gertrude Drum employed at a local factory loses her voice after coworkers enacted a birthday fan beating custom. The crowd was large enough to cause injury and she remains unable to speak. Physicians diagnose involvement of the spinal cord and she is under care.
Omaha Sept 6. A novel defense is set up by the makers of the Mora Palace in a case where J J Manik blames a contractor for resisting collection of a purported account Judge Foster presiding. The suit concerns efforts to collect a debt from the alleged contractor with a noted attorney cited in the filing.
A garbled OCR passage discusses a trust and the statute's uncertainty. It mentions masters plumbers and a claimant, suggesting a legal dispute about trust validity. Names and clear actions are unreadable. core idea is statutory ambiguity affecting the trust.
A mangled New Haven item reports a death connected to a Kipling poem reference, mentioning a person named Mathis who killed Sitzseth and was later found dead at a professor Fatuhans doorway on Etl house avenue. The crude text alludes to a poem and a forced break in narration, with garbled phrases and scattered names suggesting a sensational, unresolved crime tableau.
General F C Merriam of the Colorado department argues Indians have the right to hunt across the state under treaty prerogatives. He says tribes face extreme distress due to ration shortages and widespread poverty, with many near starvation as white hunters deplete game.
In Cincinnati on September 2 a gold medal was presented to New York traveler Mr. Pedlow by hotel chambermaids for rescuing guests in a fire at the Burnet House on May 20. He woke the guests and led them to safety, earning praise for his actions.
A partial account describes Ghumber maids presenting a medal to a person who helped during a tire year, with a note expressing appreciation for kindness shown during the event. The text mentions a death by suffocation and the medal being sent after the recipient departed.
Victoria BC reports a relief expedition sent by the mounted group to the Meckengle river trail amid great suffering. The May Kenge river arrival, Australian man Bawardson, after joining his applex, spent a week without folk prospecting. He entered Dawsor peerus after ten weeks on upper Klondike Stewart rivers. colors found but no prospects on creeks of that district.
Paria dispatch reports Vito de Bellis confirming that Major Pantz gardi says Esterhazy and Colonel Henry received 900 francs per month from Germany and Italy. Pantz gardi repeated the claim publicly. Mme Hadamard arrives at Carpentras with the Dreyfus child. the family may stay two months. In Chicago, Capt. Edward F. H. Allison heads to Dayton to campaign for John McLean.
New York Sept 25 Vice President Hobart who is at his home in Paterson New Jersey is slowly improving and if the weather is favorable he expects to go to his Paterson office this week to clear up private business matters.
A local ad notes a Silk Waist Sale with italicized line breaks in sizes. Prices are marked to clear stock in one day. The seller claims most sizes will appear in some line and urges customers to see the bargains.
One case of ladies' fleece lined Union Suits will be offered at 25 cents per suit tomorrow. The sale aims to clear stock and provide affordable warm undergarments to shoppers.
Secretary Coburn urges Kansas farmers to store corn for ninety days to balance prices and prevent a market glut. He argues farmers could gain by withholding surplus and selling later, warning against speculators and stressing durable price stability through controlled supply. Route includes Wichita to the state fair and races with return tickets via Sante Route.
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