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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
7
No 2 leaves Kansas City at 9 50 a m in a solid vestibuled train to St Louis. It includes a smoking car day coaches reclining chair car with free seats and a Pullman parlor car. Connections at St Louis Union Depot with several lines for New York and the Atlantic coast.
A damaged OCR town financial report notes the bank’s condition with partial figures and scattered line items. It lists assets and liabilities in incomplete form and references county records and banking officials.
Thirty six people from across the United States gather in a convention to await Christ's second coming, focusing on watching worshipping and praying, amid reports of belief in imminent events. Also notes the death of Sulzer’s father Thomas Sulzer of New York aged 88 and other brief items from stock brokers in New York and political updates about Governor Stanley and the Prussian Diet summons.
North Topeka social items note visitors and health locals from Topeka and nearby towns. Names include Rod, Beeler, L Jones of Oklahoma visiting family, Frank Beam of Ellsworth, Dr Samuel Ash amore, Will Wetherbolt heading to Texas with a surveying party, and many relatives visiting in Kansas. Several guests attend holidays, with Miss Tone Woodaman, Miss Gertrude Salarta, Mrs Wallace, and Mrs Eyam among hosts and visitors at homes on Jack Son Street and nearby avenues.
A Homans addition Christmas gathering at Mr and Mrs Robert Smiths home drew family and neighbors including James and Alice Fraser Burit Garwood Auburn Lucile Mildred Smith and Edwin Fraser. A later class party hosted by Permie Curtis on Van Buren and Laurent featured red and white decor, mistletoe chandeliers a scarlet poppy centerpiece and a prize for best animal drawing won by Alla Flee with a silver pin awarded to Bertha South and consolation prize a colored handkerchief for Howard Carnash.
A confession from El Green recasts a Michigan murder from January 1877. Feeny, not Hill Feeny, was killed after a spree. a search found a body with throat cut and skull fractured in a lake. Green and his brother allegedly knocked Feeny unconscious and took his money before fleeing to a lumber camp.
A Baptist church of New York and John D. Rockefeller Jr. have donated zero dollars for a new education institution for underprivileged youth. The project site lies between 57th and 41st streets and is slated to open by March 1.
Authorities in Chihuahua report Apache hostility rising in the state. The Grisada settlement reportedly prepared years ago to meet the Black White River reservation threat. Lehigh Valley line advertises traveler comforts with limited dining car service and connections from Buffalo Chicago and Niagara Falls to New York.
In a fall convention session at Hotel Cadilis, Dr. Richard T Ki y and Dr. Howe discuss tax schemes for transportation firms. They describe state property taxes, gross receipts taxes, and franchise taxes as methods to tax railways telegraphs express water and electric systems. Judson later analyzes quasi public corporations and apportionment rules balancing property values and earnings across states.
A discussion on tax valuation methods for properties and railroad franchises. Analysts cite Missouri and Tennessee cases, favoring uniform value by net income or mileage rules. Debates cover capitalizing net revenue, exemptions for stockholders, and equity between property types amid municipal franchise taxation.
Mrs Thorpe distributed clothes and canned goods to about 70 elderly visitors at her rooms in the police station this Christmas morning. Most callers were women, with eleven men among them, and they waited patiently while Mrs Thorpe assisted them with clothing and gifts amid a busy, festive scene.
J M Frost a former inmate from this city is bound over to Bourbon county district court in Fort Scott Fort Beatt. Once a horse trader and axle trimmer he lived with his wife on East evens. He and his wife were suspected by police. Frost previously served ten years for beating and robbing a man, sentence shortened by a gubernatorial pardon after two years served.
An early advertisement describes Pain Ev as a cure for hump back ruins in the side or chest and promises rapid relief. It touts a two treatment suggestion and asserts guaranteed satisfaction with the prompt price, noting the product is for sale by all outlets.
Republican Senator believer says the legislative session will be long and full of work. He criticizes fusion as unnecessary and warns against multiple listings of a candidate on the ballot. He notes it as a major topic with pending laws and cautions on early adjournment.
A serious fire broke out today at the India Locks area near London, tearing through five vast arens and consuming goods including timber and tea. Fire brigades and neighbor support battled the blaze, saving surrounding warehouses and neighborhood structures from further ruin.
Charles H. Session of the Kansas City Journal reports with the private secretary to the lieutenant governor during the upcoming session of the senate. The notice names H. E. Richter and outlines Sessions’ appointment to a principal role.
Situation wanted and rental notices show various rooms for rent with boards and furnished or unfurnished options. Several listings mention inquires at 119 West, Jackson or nearby streets, while other items reference sale of household items and miscellaneous ads.
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