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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1900
Page
16
Miss Theresa Rossington announces her forthcoming wedding on October 10 with attendants named from Topeka society circles. Local families and clubs extend congratulations as plans proceed.
Mr. Thomas G. Kennedy will wed Miss Davis in October. The Rossington wedding at Grace Cathedral on October 16 features a long list of attendants including Florence Hossington and Alice Rossington. Mrs Blood Smith hosts a dinner at Topeka Avenue October 6 in honor of Miss Boyington. Local social notes mention two Leavenworth visitors, concert guests, and a span of summer travels and returns.
Mr R F Davis owns a unique $50 treasury note from 1864 bearing 6 percent interest and never redeemed, with a months table on back. Tickets go on sale Sept 29 to Oct 6 for the Priest of Pallus Parade and Fall Festival, with six daily trains each direction and special Kansan City departures linked to festival events.
Elyria Sept. 23 Schlatter self styled Divine Healer and Hi Henry minstrel show figures drew attention as Schlatter walked from Sandusky to town penniless and drunk. Henry had him arrested after Schlatter embraced him while recounting his life story. Schlatter had no money and worked out a fine on the road. The tale links to Francis Schlatter once famed healer whose public mission began in Albuquerque and drew thousands before fading after 1895.
On the Puetas Verias river banks in 1898 mystery swirls around a man claiming to be Francis Schlatter. In August 1897 a self styled healer toured Ohio towns curing by laying on hands before Deputy Byrnes exposed him as "Rattlesnake Bob." A patent medicine vendor posing as Schlatter held meetings in Brooklyn, called a fakir by audiences, and moved westward.
News of the Week reports eight drowned in a Brownwood Texas flood and eight killed by a Morristown Minnesota tornado. Other items note Justice Brewer’s Yale lecture engagement, Alaska coast storm, Gen. Palmer’s death, coal strike progress, and various political and international developments.
A fragmented ad from Adams Brothers printers at 711 Kansas Avenue promotes wedding invitations and sample prices. It notes correct forms, shapes, sizes, and styles in new Roman or Script fonts and offers samples by mail on request.
Across Topeka reports floodlike rains continue three days while a concert closes the auditorium and a dangerous joint accident injures two. Prohibitory law violations convict five more people as political maneuvering heats up with predictions about Kansas fusionists winning the election. Names loom of Breidenthal McCormick Leland and Burton, as transportation quarrels and a gardener’s dispute surface.
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