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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1897
Page
8
Brooklyn presses the Beaneaters for pole position as a late sporting update reports Boston and Brooklyn chasing in the pennant race at Eastern Park. Washington hands Baltimore a setback while New York loses to Philadelphia in a low scoring tilt. Also notes a masked ball notice and a Grain-O advertisement.
A historic joint gathering of homeopathic, allopathic, and eclectic physicians will convene in Topeka on the first week of May. Three committees, each with five doctors, organized in Topeka to stage the world’s first union of its kind with papers read in Representative Hall and separate society sessions to follow.
Chicago September 30 Jetty Green said if she wins her suit against Julius Jonas in Judge Gary s court she will spend 38000 she claims for refitting a Michigan street building on charity in Chicago The money will be placed in trust to aid five poor homeowners who lost deeds to tax sales The plan aims to charge only legal interest and help five deserving families while she denies needing the funds citing principle and debts owed to her by Jonas
New York September 9 General T J Morgan secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society said Rockefeller has fulfilled his pledge to cover $250000 of the half million fund for the two main Baptist missionary societies. The balance remains to be raised by October 1 as Calvary Baptist Church leaders note yesterday.
Milwaukee reports from Department Commander Gray warn that G A R membership is shrinking rapidly. The past year saw 1061 suspensions or delinquencies and only 242 deaths, a trend he says could drive the organization to extinction in Wisconsin within ten years. He notes similar conditions nationwide.
Major William A. Rafferty commands the regulars and backs the festival. He told a journal reporter he is impressed by the demonstrations and pleased with Topeka's elaborate programme for visitors. The camp will support the Committee of Fifteen, with troops ready for parades and daily dress parades at the fair grounds. Also noted are local druggist Meyer Bros. praise for Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and John F. Striekrott offering festival photography services in Topeka Kansas.
A fragmented sale advertisement lists yard wide unbleached cotton, children's shoes, ladies neckwear, stockings, sewing needles, gilt edge brass, embroidered lawn, stamped linens, fancy cloth, cook books and telescopes. It touts Douglass Shoes as sole agents in Topeka and offers free hosiery with each pair, with many items priced unusually low for the sale.
A slender Philadelphia couple was arrested after customs officers found silk waists concealed in their trunks on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. Deputy Dowling valued the goods at 50, and the Kamplers offered no explanation for why the waists were in their possession. The incident occurred on the Hoboken docks as inspectors opened trunks and uncovered multiple garments.
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