Sousa Leads His Band At The Grand In May
The Grand announces Friday May 10 as the big event with John Philip Sousa and his band in person. Other acts include B B Spooner Comedy Co and Pat Rooney's Family with Sidetracked melo drama likely visiting next week as the season nears its close and summer closure approaches. A note on local happenings cites a county bounty for jack rabbit scalps and a plan for a cold storage distributing point, while Rock Island excursion tickets go on sale April 30 to multiple western states. The Johnson-Nebel Candy Co and Beckstrom's offer specials and the State Journal's Want and Miscellaneous column reaches more readers than any other local paper.
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Botan
John Philip Sousa
Sousa
Spooner Comedy Company
Pat Rooney
Mock Island
Great Rock Island
Texas
Arkansas
New Mexico
Footstona
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arisona
Rock Island Ticket
Topeka
Depot
Corner First
Kansas Avenue
North Topeka
H. C.ganver
Johnson-Nebel Candy Co
Kansas Ave
Harrison
Curtain Girl Seeks Pay After Leavenworth Show
Miss Lodge of the Calhoun Company claims Murray, Leavenworth manager, paid her back salary of 50 dollars and turned over her trunk after she refused a summer engagement. She says threats and removal of her wardrobe valued at 1,000 followed her notice to quit. Her weekly pay was 29 dollars. She left after the performance. Murray denies, noting a journalist access dispute at Emporia paper.
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Miss Lodge
Calhoun Company
Leavenworth
Gertrade Lodge
Perpetua
Murray
Emporia
Colins Financial School Endorsed by Kansas City Letter
A Topeka Capital editorial reference praises Colins Financial School as an eye opener for readers unsettled by moneyed interests. A letter from Cassas City Missouri dated April 27 1805 endorses the work and argues for independent thinking on finance while noting disagreement with the Capital’s stance.
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Lehdigh & Hayes
Suingiesaint
Bassas Urry
Slc
Topeka
Colin
Cain
Financial School
Joan Serpien
Kassas Crry
Sunday School Meeting elects city officers in Topeka
About 400 people attended the union meeting of Sabbath Schools at the First Presbyterian Church in Topeka yesterday afternoon. F Riley was reelected president of city work for the State Sunday School Association. J F Fulton named secretary. Ward vice presidents chosen: W H Wasson, P H Gomes, Mohler, W G A Huron, J F Fulton. Also notes Ills Rep Hitt gravely ill in Washington after grip and rheumatism affecting heart and brain.
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Topeka
First Presbyterian Church
F. Riley
State Sunday School Association
J. F. Folton
W. H Wasson
P. H Gomes
Mohler
W.G. A. Huron
J. F. Fulton
In Memoriam Mrs Giles funeral at 720 Quincy St
Obituary notes Airs Nelson Giles died April 24 after long illness. Born 1817 in Danbury, she lived in Littleton NH before moving to Topeka in 1872. Survived by husband, two sons, a daughter Mrs Albert Parker, sister, half-brother. Funeral held Friday at 2 pm. casket adorned with flowers, family recalls a generous Christian life. Includes praise for faith, courage, and family devotion.
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Airs
Nelson Giles
Quincey Street
Aira Giles
Mrs Giles
Danbury
Littleton
N.hl
Topeka
Mra Albert Parker
Ghostly ruse frees fines at city prison
Night jailer Albert Hopkins used a staged basement ghost to frighten women prisoners into paying fines or posting bonds. The specter, voiced by Hopkins and Trusty Pete Callihan, haunted the basement over a single night, prompting several inmates to settle fines by daylight.
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City
Kangaroo Court
Albert Hopkins
Hopking
Laws
Teeny Williams
Hopkin
Mra Matson
Mrs. Matson
Santa Fe
Fanny Wright
Mary Wade
Carrie’ Jordan
Hopkins
Pete Callihan
Wilkerson
Prion
Topeka Hosts Ten Cent Medicine Show Tour
Seville Taylor plans a ten cent admission medicine show from Topeka opening Monday in Burlingame. The Acme Medicine company's Imperial Specialty Vaudeville group, led by Orville Taylor S N Foote and G Allen, will tour opera houses for two months then move to a tent. The cast includes a trapeze team serpentine dancers ballad singers acrobats and comedians. Rehearsals are underway with much Topeka talent and Taylor managing.
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Seville Taylor
Topeka
Acme Medicine Company
Imperial Specialty and Vaudeville Company
Burlingame
Orville
Taylor
S. N. Foote
G. ¥. Allen
Ict
Eo McDonald
The First Tent Show Opens Wednesday on Quincy Street
Crawford Bros presenting Joshua Simpkins Company on Quincy Street will open its season Wednesday evening under Orlin and Chester Crawford. Rehearsals are daily. A noon parade by the farmer band precedes the performance. A balloon ascent and parachute jump will occur just before showtime. A strongman named Young Sandow will lift heavy objects. Admission is twenty five cents and the tent seats two thousand.
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Crawford Bros
Joshua Simpkins
Quincy Street
Orlin
Chester Crawford
Farmer
Garvey to resign as Topeka Rock Island ticket agent
Mr H O Garvey retires from city ticket agent post with Rock Island in Topeka to become general Kansas agent for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co Captain A M Fuller succeeds him as city agent for Rock Island J B Frawley Union Pacific passenger agent visits Topeka to select a successor
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Western Buslows
H O. Garvey
Rock Island
Topeka
Kansas
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
A. M. Fuller
Union Pacific
Mr. Garvey
J. B. Frawley
Fuller
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Stevenson & CO
Board of County Commissioners
Larnei
Concordia
Concordia Empire
Beckstrom’s
Jackson
Ingrain
Jackson Street
State Journan
Want
Miscellaneova
Payne’s
Eas
Culn’s
Ir. Hitt
Washiveton
Representative Hitt
Illinois
Mr. Hitt
Mrs. Giles
Grand Central Station
New York Central
New York City
Metropolis
New York
Forty Fourth Street
Forty-second Street
L Wan
New Yorkty
Rochester Union and Advertiser
Higinbotham
Manhattan
Ghostus
Ettenson Clothing
Golden Eagle
Tos
Clairette
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N. K. Fairbank Company
Topeka Foundry and Machine Works
R. L. Cofran
Topeka, Kansas
Sapolio
Olof Ekberg
Merchant Tabor
Kans
T. Trapp Merchant Tailor
W. T. Beerbohm
Mangr
Shelden’s
Ior
Garvey
Jovnsal
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