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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1897
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal outlines terms for situations wanted and classified ads, inviting honest entries before deadlines. It promises daily printing and wide circulation, urging advertisers to submit notices by specific mornings to ensure inclusion.
Fragmentary line about advertising rates and circulation figures for the first elederth elements, including a note that the average circulation is near 897, with garbled wording and illegible numbers.
Fragmentary ad text notes a call to view a sworn detailed circulation statement, mentions a fast printing device and advertising services. References a machine described as producing multiple pages per second and suggests availability for dogs with family vaults on a farm or lane, with a Pens address.
The Immigration, Land and Loan Co and Ferguson & Co advertise extensive Kansas City vacant lots for sale with prices from $5 to $40 per lot, ranches near Manhattan and timbered tracts, plus a Sedgwick State Library project bidding notice. Also public notices urge bids for state library renovation work with bond and penalty details.
Officials of Topeka announce the formation of drainage district number three. A meeting is set for August 187 at 9 a.m. at the corner of Washington Avenue and Eleventh Street to determine venue and appraise all parcels within the district. The notice names James Gillett J W Max and Jonathan Teche as appraisers.
Sealed proposals will be received until 5 o'clock Monday August for furnishing all materials and performing labor for city projects. Payments proceed by estimates from the city engineer, subject to mayor and council approval. A certified check of 1000 dollars payable to the city guarantees contract entry and bond for faithful performance within three days after award.
In a tale of gossip and romance Mrs Van Tassel confides with Mrs Prancely about a family dispute. A French husband, a will, and a millstone of jealousy drive the drama as truths emerge and a fortune changes hands through a daughter’s marriage and a cousin’s generosity. Roles shift amid village chatter and a long hidden truth surfaces with a hopeful outcome.
A collection of short comic vignettes and conversations from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. Topics include marriage equality and independence, a traveling journalist quitting Kentucky after a quarrel with another editor, a dialog on arbitration, a public dispute about peacemaking, a royal attendant and a wheeler, and a quip about Blondike Lager beer prices and brewing costs.
A garbled OCR mix cites old quotes and jokes from multiple papers including Washington Star and New York Journal. It references marital regret in a sarcastic line and a stray dog obituary remark, with stray phrases about Cuban pacification and a cheeky chin comment from a Chicago Record item.
The American Newspaper Directory is to newspaper circulations what Dun and Bradstreet's are to mercantile ratings. It is the recognized authority among advertisers. This work is now in the twenty ninth year of its publication.
The editor of the American Newspaper Directory reports to Porter's Lux dated July 28, 1897 that the Topeka Kansas State Journal has the largest daily circulation in Topeka Shawnee County and the First Congressional District. The figures, based on signed statements from Kansas papers, will be in the September 1, 1897 directory. The paper notes much of its edition is delivered by carrier or express with no postage.
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