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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1894
Page
8
A busy Topeka compacted column reports on football results at Abilene Salina, city meetings and civic events, and assorted cittizens. Notes include visits by Denver guests, church and school happenings, arrests, court matters, and ongoing local politics with hints of a council seat vacancy.
Wonderful sights and specialities to be seen at the carnival include the electric girl in startling effects, segment dances, the Spaniel t and Skirt dancer with refined light colors, De Wolff Hoppers song This Life Pig Went to Market, and a host of pantomimes and transformations. Two hours of intense entertainment with music, novelty acts, and vivid stage effects.
The Union Terminal dispute moves forward as the case is submitted to Judge Hiner after railroads Kansas City decision. The issue is crossing at grade or overhead crossing and involves Union Pacific Rock Island and Missouri Pacific lines. The commission’s permission and subsequent appeal frame a long legal battle between rail entities and regulators.
The Palace of Art endures beside the lake, a majestic reminder of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. It stands after fire and tempest as a public gallery and Field's Columbian Museum, entertaining and instructing future multitudes with a miniature panorama of the 1895 exposition.
Government tests praised Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder for leavening strength purity and general excellence and awarded it the highest prize at the fair.
The Kansas Day club toast program in Topeka set for January 26 features President P P Campbell delivering the opening address. Charles M Sheldon of Burlingame will respond to the theme Kansas with other speakers including W H Hlouk Leavenworth EL H Madison Dod City KB Bosuttle Clay Center A W Diana Topeka RL Pickler Smith Center Jake Randwich Pittsburg and T A McNeal Topeka. Representatives from Republican clubs at the state university Baker University will be named by college clubs.
In court the Santa Fe seeks removal of unprofitable branch lines in Kansas including Wichita to Ellsworth, Beaumont to Cole, and Anthony to Arkansas City. The city electric plant faces boiler shortages with only three boilers, prompting a $700 boiler addition after a city engineer’s cost estimate. Ads push Snow’s Expectorant guarantee and Christmas eyewear from Charles Bennett.
Three foreclosure suits filed in district court seek $3,000 each to foreclose on the Hicks Flats property at Tyler and Sixth streets. Plaintiffs Katharine Abbott J Andrews and the St Peely Church of Ere Pennsylvania claim Lombard Investment Co mortgaged the property five years ago and transferred it to the plaintiffs. The Grand features popular farces and upcoming Gustave Frohman company performances including The Railroad Ticket and Jane. Marriage licenses were granted by Probate Judge Elliott for Thomas Mark Belle Williams Elvert G Sanaier Edea Vingliog.
December 16 and December 24 1904 tickets sold for round trips to Colorado Utah Oklahoma Indian Territory Texas Arkansas Missouri and Louisiana at one fare plus two dollars. Valid twenty days from issue with return by January 2 1905. Local notices mention city measurements on sidewalks and court seating concerns. Pile suppository ad promotes cure with 50 cent price and sample offers from Martin Rudy Lancaster PA.
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