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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1894
Page
7
Classified section details rents and real estate offers with daily prints and notices. Mentions ads by Topexa and rivals, highlighting low prices and local market listings in a compact newspaper card style.
A chaotic page from a local paper records repair crews shuffling between addresses and storefronts. The piece notes scheduling hiccups, missing parts, and uncertainty about when power and water will be restored. Community members express concern over extended outages and mounting costs.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Tepeha tet Che pent, references to Live bia mea sane at Mir Stale, Hue te je ee 0 ADMEE, RA Pac Nhaey ECL Huberire rally, and names Gilda of Runcorn, Selmer, Popes, TG Dest Asie. The legible items hint at a local event or meeting with several proper nouns and unclear dates or places.
Rail timetable details indicate Santa Fe departures and arrivals between Topeka and nearby towns. Listings show morning and evening trains with specific stop times and connections, including Kaneas and Topeka segments, plus local intermediate stations and nightly services.
Scrambled OCR text outlines Rock Island Route schedules with departures and arrivals around Topeka and Chicago. Mentions Westbound and Eastbound travel, trains through Topeka, general station contact points, and a Fort Topeka post office reference.
Read in effect December 10 the Union Pacific schedule listing trains between Topeka and Leavenworth with departures around 7 am and 9:00 am daily except Sundays. Notes mention Westbound routes, city stop details, and connections, with references to Topeka and Leavenworth stations and fare terms.
A veterinary surgeon hosted a Newark dinner featuring horse meat dishes to demonstrate its claims of nourishment and value. The event, attended by about a hundred guests, included tail soup, saddle, roasts, and broiled cuts, with the doctor at the head of the table explaining the meal's merits and origins of the horse used.
A violent earthquake lasting five minutes struck at 10 20 p m yesterday in Oruvieza south Hungary. Many houses collapsed some walls cracked roofs fell in and cornices dropped into the street. Short aftershocks at 1 and 2 am Tuesday sent residents fleeing into the cold streets in panic.
Consular reports reveal heavy snail shipments from France and Switzerland to the United States for gourmet use. France alone sent about 244,260 pounds in a year, with U S buyers paying about $18.50 per thousand. production regions in France focus on cultivating edible land snails.
Sales announced for future sale by leading grocers including Geo Yun 4.8 Bproat Fitzgerald Ganonu Weber Craven Dick M Anglers Hetane Franck Green Knox Beach Lox Grice Brodersen Kleens Hindman Whitteluey Mercantile Co W Masspeaker Buck and others. Local stores Worth Forks Green Kale Berry Bros Johnson Adams Collisi Co involved.
Mrs Lease is said to back bidders ignored by other state board members in charity contract letting. Initiative and referendum group will meet at the court house tomorrow night with speakers H Arty W Tuenington J H Lathrop J Robbins and Cyrus Corning. A Topeka physician’s daughter reportedly destitute. her father refuses aid after she remarried. Barbers union officers elected and Swift Holiday and Prescott Co advertise travels, goods, and silverware in Topeka.
In New York a mass meeting at Dawson Place Baptist church discussed enforcing the law in Brooklyn. Agents showcased a hand camera and stereoscope photos of saloon exteriors with uniformed police at doors and children entering, illustrating police numbers captured on film.
A dispatch from Shewandush reports anthracite miners rapidly joining the United Workers of America amid labor drive. Organizers Fahey and Hion claim sixty assemblies with 200 to 230 members each, while a rival leader says United Mine Workers gains momentum. Wages average 60 cents a day, the lowest yet, signaling worsening conditions in the subractice region.
Washington dec 20 congressman W J Bryan of nebraska denounces the presidents endorsement of Mr Carlisle plan asserting it would likely pass the house but fail in the senate. He warns the proposal would let banks issue money at one half of 1 percent and shift power from government to private bankers, delaying silver restoration and harming farmers and businesses.
Dowager Empress of China thanks Hon Charlies Den via Tsung Li Yamen for the New Testament gift from Pekin led by foreign ladies revittent. Empress sends silks and laces to Mr. Denby for the ladies who delivered the present. Also notes cotton import duty increase and local ads for watches and goods.
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