Topeka's tiny portrait craze sweeps the town
A Topeka trend sees people, especially girls, posing for a craze of tiny photos. Photographers crowd studios as 1,596 pictures are taken in a day. Receipts are numbered like a barber shop, and subjects strike varied poses from neutral to dramatic, fearing alterations to their looks.
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Topeka
Masi
Tim
Wnen
Msn
Candler
Camer
Bode Ee
Tim Brea
Grain-Oalas drink for health builder for children and adults
An advertisement extols Grain-Oalas as a health builder rather than a stimulant. It claims it strengthens the nerves and is suitable for children and adults, noting it costs about as much as coffee. Subscribed for The State Journal.
Girl Inventor Rebels Against Family Curse in 14 Year Old Sylvia
A fourteen year old girl, Sylvia Ringgold, secretly pursues invention despite family scars from failed ventures. She dismantles a grandfather pulley in a woodshed and, after persistent tinkering, climbs a derrick to solve the mechanism, ultimately perfecting the Ringgold pulley and earning recognition at a world’s fair.
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Sylvia
Grazy Dick
Aunt Hester
Mrs. Ringgold
Jerold
Grandfather Ringgold
Rebecca
Reberos
Ahs
Sylvie
Grandfat
Mother
Aunt Hooter
Agnet Robson
Les
Philadelphia
Situations Wanted Advertisements in Topeka Journal
Topeka Kansas notices offer free classified space for non workers. Advertisers must submit ads before the stated deadlines Saturday morning or Wednesday morning for various days. Ads cost five cents per line with weekly and monthly rates.
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Stats Journal
Topeka
Topekate Journal
Wanted ads and notices from Topeka journal page
A scan of classified style notices and want ads lists positions in dining rooms farm work and general labor. Entries seek skilled helpers, wives, maids, seamstresses, drivers, farmhands, and a few professional posts. Several addresses in Topeka and nearby towns, with contact notes and sometimes compensation details. Several real estate rental and sale notices accompany the ads.
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Ea Iin
Journal Office
Boyer
Bound and Found Items at Peerless Steam Laundry
A fragmented note describes items including a clock and watches found at Peerless Steam Laundry located at 112 and 114 West. It mentions a price quote, a Kansas age reference, and a focus on affordable work methods.
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Pat Hain Oirn
Ul Turner Yanth
Lawrence
Kansas
Peerless
West Sth
Senate Defends Harris Resolution on Kansas Pacific Deal
In Washington on Feb 2 the Senate backed Senator Harris of Kansas with a resolution of inquiry into the Kansas Pacific railroad matter. Harris attacked a proposed reorganization plan as defrauding the government of more than 6 million. He argued the road, valued lower by officials, should not be surrendered to a receiver without proper compensation.
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Kansas Pacific
Washington
Harris
Kansas
Senate
Unions
Pax
Bir
Foraker
Ohio
Mc Harde
Union Pacific
Mr. Harels
Missouri
Veeth
Harrie
Curtis to urge appropriations for Leavenworth Soldiers Home
Representative Curtis will address the house appropriations committee tomorrow urging a 300,000 grant for the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth for barracks repairs and furniture. Additional requests include 345,008 for repairs, 4,000 for female nurses, and 10,000 for extra quarters in the commissary building to house 100 men now sleeping on floors.
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Washington, Poh. m
Curtis
House
Leavenworth
Woman killed by a flag in Brooklyn home
Susanna Smith wife of a Brooklyn abolitionist died after an accident while decorating her parlor with an American flag and Lincoln portrait. Descending stairs she slipped and was fatally injured, with the flag in her right hand and the portrait in the left. A stray line mentions a storefront merchant tailor at 713 Kansas Avenue with a casual fragment about clothes.
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Susanna Smith
Throohlyn
Abraham Lincoln
Brooklyn
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