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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1895
Page
8
The United Assembly Knights of Labor has named a committee to seek a city council resolution for a social club. If denied, they will form a stock company to run a club with reading rooms cigars meals and baths. They request city action to curb saloon card tables to keep workingmen from spending family money.
The New York and Long Island Railroad company announces a 13 mile tunnel from New Jersey, under Manhattan via Forty second street and the East river, ending at Long Island City. It would connect with neighboring lines at both ends and involve a Hell Gate viaduct. Estimated cost is sixty million dollars and ground damages are expected to be saved.
John Hipp attends the National Executive Committee meeting at the Sherman House in Chicago to secure the party’s national convention site for Denver if possible. King Deny Denyer is not present.
North Topeka items list residents traveling to Kansas City and Arkansas, new local addresses, shop blurbs for groceries and buggy supplies, and society notes on a women’s benevolent hive formation. Also notes on Van Prather selling out baking powder business and council records from December 1895.
The Topeka city council addressed street grading on Tyler, Fifth, and Sixth streets. It passed ordinances 1827 on Hurri con street traffic and 1888 on dead animals, with amendments. Ordinance 1820 levying a special assessment for paving alleys near Van Buren and Harrison streets was approved, and an ordinance authorizing gas works construction received referral to a committee. The council also authorized bids to bury dead animals and scheduled a Wichita trip for the mayor and officials on Dec 10, 1895.
J W Moore and J W Johnson, members of the state livestock sanitary board, have settled expenses to date with the state. Moore admits claiming $1050 in railroad fares for eleven days this month. Johnson, who rides on promotions but does not bill mileage, filed an expense voucher from October 24 to today with no railroad fare listed.
Dec 11 report outlines plans for a national commission to police artistic work and prevent quacks from misrepresenting substandard paint or marble as fine art. The idea mirrors art authorities in Frese, seeking congressional support. Also notes local ads for watches, jewelry, home goods and a church fair with 10 cent admission.
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