Financial history tables show dramatic growth through 1900
The State Journal reports financial and industrial expansion with tables detailing currency and bank deposits, farm numbers and values, and manufacturing output from 1850 to 1900. It notes farms rising to 6.74 million, farm property value reaching $20 billion, farm product value near $3 trillion, manufacturing value up to $18 billion, and employment climbing from about 1 million to 6% million.
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National Bank
Ottawa Kans Irascal Saloons and Oddities Report
The column lists scattered notes and oddities from towns including Parsons Concordia Ottawa and Atchison with jokes incidents and local curiosities. It mentions windmills in Hamilton county a pear orchard in Wathena and a lion reported near Ottawa along with a skeleton in an Atwood hotel and various humorous observations. Claus Spreckels is connected to a Montreal sugar refinery venture with a planned purchase in Montreal and a British Columbia refinery.
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Parsons
Jack the Hugger
Concordia
Leach
Thomas County
Syracuse
Congressman Long
Neosho County
Hamilton County
Osborne County
Louisburg
Claus Spreckels
Ottawa
Federal Sugar Refining Company
Montreal
Claus A. Spreckels
William M. Cook
New York
Ht. B. McGibbon
T. Chase Casstain
F. Surveyor
Redpath Cats
British Columbia
State Journal summer home delivery and city rail notes
Subscribers may receive the State Journal by mail during summer at thirty cents a month with free address changes. A movement seeks ambulance attachments for autos. Debates on Roosevelt and party alignment. Berlin horse cars removed, New York expanding. Fusionists and Tom Kelly conflict in Republican ticket. Miles heads to the Philippines. uniforms and Corbin’s form noted. Boer war aftermath prompts questions on Boer subscription workers. Strikes and mine guards clash. troops deployed, tensions rise. Indian headlines and Irish parallels listed.
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State Journal
Teone
Berlin
New York
Tom Kelly
Tathy
Progress of the United States in Its Material Industries
A Treasury Bureau of Statistics monograph presents decennial and annual tables tracking area, population, wealth, debt, money in circulation, banks and clearings, farm values, manufactures, revenues, imports and exports, railways, shipping, and other national development facets from 1800 onward. It shows area growth to 4.0 million square miles by 1902, population density rising, wealth expanding to about a trillion dollars by 1909, shifting per capita wealth, and historic public debt changes, with per capita debt figures across eras and per capita money in circulation peaking in 1907. data include deposits in savings banks and related metrics with scattered monetary values through the periods.
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United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Alaska
Benks Smonnten
United States consul seeks missing American in Paris
Henry Clay Evans received a request from Paris to locate W. T. Dekay of Chicago who registered at the Hotel Ritz August 15 with H. L. Norman of Mansfield Ohio and disappeared the same day Dekay left Paris on August 17 and later registered at the Savoy in London this week. The item mentions the Postmasters Convention in Milwaukee closing with a talk by Henry A. Castle and a lake steamer ride for delegates.
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Clay Evans
London
United States
Henry Clay Evans
Paris
W. T. DeKay
Chicago
H. L. Norman
Mansfield
Dekay
Savoy Hotel
Milwaukee
National Postmasters’ Associatoa
Henry A. Castle
Post Oflive
Washington, D.C
Miss Anthony Defeats Deering in Chicago Match
Chicago Aug 29 Miss Bessie Anthony beat Mrs C L Deering of Midlothian six up five to play while set to defend her western women title against Mrs W A Alexander of Exmoor in the final for the champion ship and governor s cap.
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Miss Anthony
Deering
Chicago
Bessie Anthony
C. L. Deering
Midlothian
W. A. Alexander
Exmoor
Investigation targets Topeka official A K Rodgers
A dispatch from Washington reports A K Rodgers assistant postmaster in Topeka Kansas is under investigation for using his office for political purposes. He serves as treasurer for the First district congressional committee and the Curtis Republican club and manages Curtis politics. The case follows a civil service inquiry and possible removal from office.
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Leavenworth Times
Washington, D. C
Kansas
Postoffice
A. K. Rodgers
Topeka
Rodgers
First District Congressional Committee
Curtis Republican Club
Curtis
First District
Dudley Foulke
United States Civil Service Commission
Postmaster General
Seedi
Ee Kensas
Emplo
William
Berlin officers dismissed after Gumblinnen ovation for Hildebrand
Captain von Frankenberg and First Lieutenant Numbauer of the Meld artillery were dismissed from the army in Berlin for the Ovation given to Lieut Hildebrand the pardoned duelist at Gumblinnen East Prussia. Another officer who led Hildebrand’s cavalry escort was moved to the commissariat corps. Hildebrand’s regimental commander Weiss and Major Diekerhoff resigned on demand though not involved. The dismissals were so swift they were recalled from maneuvers.
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Berlin
von Frankenberg
Numbauer
Gumblinnen
East Prussia
Hildebrand
Commissariat Corps
Weiss
Diekerhoff
von. Frankenberg
Numbaur
Rebate Scheme Voted Down by Tin Workers
Pittsburg Aug 2 The Amalgamated Journal the official organ of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tinplate Workers of America announces that the rebate proposition submitted to the tin lodges by the American Tin Plate company through the conference committee has been voted down.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Amalgamated Journal
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tinplate Workers of America
American Tin Plate Company
Ashland Man in Topeka and City Police at State Fair
Harry Bone of Ashland visits Topeka and plans to attend Chicago tonight. Chief Wilmarth returns from Wichita after a department conference. Police guard the city for the state fair with mounted, bicycle, and day and night officers, plus sworn special police at the fairgrounds. Also note a tornado photo near Lebanon by photographer Stone.
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Harry Bone
Ashland
Topeka
Chicago
Wilmarth
Wichita
M.auly
Fair Grounds
Santa Fe
T. B. Jennings
U. S
Lebanon
Fragmented OCR: unclear title from old locality record
A partial OCR fragment mentions a local event and names that are unreadable. The readable portion hints at a meeting or decision involving individuals and groups but lacks coherent context or specifics to identify place or outcome.
The German Cobbler and the Volcano Story
In a cobbler shop a man laments a distant Martinique volcano disaster harming his family, asking for an earthquake. The German cobbler offers ice water and beer instead, prompting insults before a calmer visitor arrives to end the scene.
Cobblers Quest Pieces of Ark in Long Search
A German cobbler vows to spend ten years and all his money to find pieces of an ark and bring a large fragment to his shop. He bargains for beer, faces mockery, and endures a harsh night as police intervene amid a surreal scene. Also noted is Harry Adonis stranded in Cheyenne Wells after a reported Michigan origin and marriage, with interviews to papers forthcoming.
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Ross
Martinique
Hans
Dot ‘Ark
Euneiaey
Adonis
Harey Adonis
Michigan
Wran
Ee Mneelbarraw
Kite
Cheyenne Wells
Cole Adonis
My Tecate
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Topeka State Journal
Frank P. Maclennan
Ag Yore
Vanderbil Tae
Tago
Bill Glock
Mer
WIRES
THE
TED Press
Jayhawkee
Halstead
Arkansas City
Roosevelt
Delaware
Addicks
U. S. Senate
Miles
Philippines
Germany
Corbin
Indianapolis News
Atl
Snow Hill
Asbury Dixon
Dixon
D. B. Swingle
Manhat
Kena
Tourcoing
France
Sammy
Trek
Armony
Denserat
James Pendleton
Aliss Dods Morris
Gentry
Emporia
Oklahoma
Tomorro
the Fitwell Shoe CO
Kansas Avenue
O'Brien
VIA
Rock Island
Kansas City
Pullman
Harvey
T. S. King
Topeka, Kan
T. M. James, Jr
North Kamas Avenna
Merry
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