Topeka Plans Big Fall Festival Despite Doubtful Cost
After holidays Topeka residents consider a major fall festival project to draw 50,000 visitors weekly. City leaders tout novelty over carnival imitators, promising unique attractions and widespread attention. Plans hinge on broad support, with officials noting chariot races and new displays as highlights to lure crowds from afar.
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North Topeka social notes and local ads
North Topeka items report adjournment for holiday break and family visits. Mrs Kate Taylor of Denver visits sister Mrs G. F. Kimball. Calvin Wright of Dallas stays with friends. Mrs Hubert Morris travels to speed and breath with daughter Mrs Margares Yala. A church social and kindergarten auxiliary event are noted. local merchants advertise buckwheat, maple syrup, wagons and buggy tops. Dray store touts Dr. Bing's New Discovery with testimonial.
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Carl Got
Kate Taylor
Denver
G. F. Kimball
Calvin Wright
Dallas Tex
North Tepere
Hubert Morris
Mra
Margares Yala
Sovisty
Ransnaaverne M. & Church
Greve Adinger
Murti
D. BE. Metzger
Vie Meriden Tribtow
Copkla
Holiday Rates on Santa Fe Route Available
Gee and one third fare for the round trip within 200 miles. Tickets valid December 24 25 and January 1 with return allowed through January 2. For more information contact P Towner, Agent Mont Bead. Also a guarantee of a wart remedy by Beggs Dimelicte Balsam as the best Summer Copplaint cure.
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Wales
Local footballer dismisses injury fears
A Chicago Tribune reminiscence quotes a young player boasting of minimal injuries while suiting up. He argues reports of football dangers are exaggerations, recounting only minor incidents like a black eye and a dislocated finger as he prepares for a harmless game.
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Chicago Tribune
Sketches by M Quad in Bowery candy store scene
The narrator on the East Side watches a barefoot ten year old girl approach a Bowery confectionery. A man asks if she has ever had a pound of candy and she replies with defiant, sharp wit. The brief encounter hints at vulnerability and street life without graphic detail.
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Detroit Free Press
Fragmented Humorous Snippets From A Warped Page
A collage of stray jokes and quips unfolds with playful sarcasm as writers riff on marriage, memory, and social quirks. Snappy exchanges reference Thanksgiving, family reunions, and newsroom banter, capturing a lighthearted snapshot of gossip and wit across several bygone lines.
Prisoner Digging Escape Fails Ten Feet Short
In a jail yard tale from Alsbania a sheriff hosts a hammock scene as inmates tunnel from a corridor. Two prisoners surface their heads and confess they misjudged the wall arriving ten feet short of freedom after four weeks of digging.
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Comic Street Vignettes From Detroit Free Press
Brazen fraud and street scuffles pepper a roadside farce as a jovial crowd watches a would be trickster drop a dollar and a farmer type swindled by a grocer recount the escapades. The tale blends humorous boldness with sharp wits in a city scene.
Electric current and laughter mix in odd insights
A jumble of period quips and mock science musing on electricity and kissing. The pieces parody Edison era tech talk, comic lines from a variety of papers, and snippets of gossip and humor about inventions, misused patents, and social quirks.
Miss May Hamilton Enters School With Prof Samuel’s Aid
A reader describes the return of a gravely ill child to schooling after treatment by Prof. Samuels. The 14 year old girl, previously nervous and frequently ill, improved after glasses and eye preparation, with headaches gone and weight gain. Electric Bitters is praised as a remedy for headaches and constipation. bottles fifty cents at J J Jones drugstore.
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Prof. Samuels
Polk Street
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J. J. Jones Drugstore
Holiday Rates Santa Fe Route One-Third Fare
Holiday rates apply for the Santa Fe route with one end of a round trip set at one-third fare to points within 200 miles. Tickets sell December 24 26 81 and January 1 valid for return including January 2. For details contact P Rowney City Ticket Agent Beggs German Selva. The ad also promotes Beggs' German Salve ointment and Peerless Steam Laundry services.
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P. Rowney
Why So Many Horn Stormers Are Go in Theatres
A Topeka manager complains actors demand high pay and the best talent stays in New York, forcing low-cost company choices. The piece notes the theater market’s tightness as actors resist salary cuts, while a separate ad warns about counterfeit Minnesota flour and local dealers.
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Topeka Theater
New York
Topeka
Minnesota Ia
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Minnesota
Washburn Crosby Company
Minsenpolle
Ming
Berry Bros
Garner & Lane
A. F. Eby
J. H. Heller
H. Riordan
Three Expert Opinions on W Berdy and Local Notes
The article reports on several odd statements about W Berdy described as “Simple Since” and other nicknames, includes a police quote about a Simple Simon remark, and recounts Hardy’s weather related cider anecdote. It also notes a court decision by Judge Hezen about tax sale certificate payments before December twenty, and advertises a North Topeka house for sale after the widow’s death.
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Hezen
Central National Bank
FM. Stahl
Fairchild Treet
North Topeka
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