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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1894
Page
8
Large reduction sale on pianos uprights square pianos and organs with prices from 35 dollars upward. Bargains extend to banjos guitars mandolins and sheet music with reduced prices on meet music and all kinds of music goods. One Lyon and Healy upright featured.
An elderly couple searches for Jamie Miller in Topeka area after a depot incident. Bascom probes sightings, but most details fade. readers asked to help identify his residence. Classified ads for hair restorers and remedies fill the page along with local business notices.
Topeka hosts a week long Itinerants Club session at First Mt church including lectures by Dr J M Buckley of New York editor of the New York Christian Advocate and other noted divines. Speakers cover theology public speech and ministry, with readings on education and church work. Train travel offers excursion rates across the central region with round trips listed and multiple cities included.
A grateful Kansas reader credits Dr J Brownfield of Topeka with curing a near fatal quick consumption in September 1904. The letter, signed by S C Cave and witnesses, recounts severe illness, medical guarantee, and a celebratory dinner with the doctor.
December 4 Santa Fe offers homeseekers excursions at one fare plus 2 for round trip. Tickets go to Colorado Utah Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas Arkansas Louisiana with 20 day validity. Topeka to St Louis round trip $11 40 with route choices east of Kansas. Tickets on sale November 24 at Holmes Bel lum Swift Holliday. Prof Lieb and Prof Buch attend Chancel Chapter event. Washburn College Chapel hosts the Singing Jubilee on Friday December 7.
In a prolonged dry spell, streams and wells dry up across the county. Only the Kansas River remains flowing, with Shunganunga Mission and Soldier creeks supplying scant water. Farmers haul water for household and stock, locking pumps to conserve supply, as cattle drive and distant wells become daily necessities. Residents recall the severe drought of the seventies and fear winter rain may not arrive. Nearby, the World War era “fifteen hour” train run inspires local interest, with other community notices about The Slayton Jubilee Singers and local services.
The Rock Island line announces time changes affecting No. 2 eastbound from Denver to Chicago, now arriving 3:35 pm and departing 3:40 pm, earlier than before. Topeka trains keep current times except the 3:55 pm St Joseph connection now 2:60 pm. Also promotes products and events including Teething Syrup, Pile Suppository, Snow Expectorant, and Washburn College Jubilee Singers concert at U P hotel.
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