Price Cuts Bring Trilby At Regular Prices In Topeka
Owing to broad protest manager ERM Crawford declares at his own risk that the Saturday Trilby show will use regular one dollar pricing. Topeka residents applaud, noting that thirty and two dollar seats were never expected. Atchison Globe praises the cast with praise for Gecio Logagementa Svengili and Be Uninteresting Scotchman Laird, while Edith Crane’s Trilby performance draws chilled reactions and the company’s stage presence is commended from Christmas studio to final scene.
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Erm. Crawford
Topeka
Atchison Globe
Atchison
Gecio
Pleyig
Laird
Scotchman
Ana
Little Billee
Bor
Edith ‘Crane
I'rilby
Mary Anderson
Trilby
Harry G Carleton Os
W. M. Jacksons Elevator Elevates County Official
A crippled County Officer in Vetumorex Kansas uses a home built elevator at the court house to enter his office. The device, mounted at the north window, helps W M Jackson wheel in his chair and ride into the magistrate's office. Citizens debate the invention while a steam laundry named Peering offers free button sewing.
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Court House
Vetumorex
Kan
Sas
W. M. Jackson
Register of Deeds
Jackson
Dred
Blimanis
Turning New Year Leaves in a Poetic Rhyme
A playful verse reflects on the New Year as leaves turning and the Earth rejoices. Children and adults alike turn over fresh pages of the year, honoring the moment with festive sentiment.
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Otaes
Going to wed anew in a moral tale of Linda Marmont
In a finely drawn scene set on New Year's Eve a sad widow Mrs Marmont confesses plans to become a deaconess while her father contemplates her future. Linda Marmont reveals she will enter a novitiate and not attend Aunt Sarahs dinner. Lester, smitten, seeks Linda's past marriage and learns she wed Mark Weber in Spain.
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American Press
Amoctetion
Jonking
Sarah
Mia Saunders
Mrs. Marmont
South America
Egypt
New York
Lester
Oetul
Linda Marmont
Marmont
Tom Macmont
Linda
Mark Weber
Spain
Linds Marmont
Aleowilly
Linda Leland
Aaid Linds
Linda Marmont and the forbidden return of past love
In a dim sitting room Linda Marmont resists a fierce reunion with a former admirer who believes she is married. They recall long-guarded pasts while Linda admits a hidden attraction and plans to settle matters with her aunt and her father, seeking a hopeful reconciliation.
NEW FIRE APPARATUS FOR EWRENTA CITY COUNCIL
A city committee recommended purchasing a new wagon and hose cart for the fire department. The fire chief will obtain plans and specifications, with Topeka patterns likely adopted. Estimated cost around 400 dollars.
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Ewronta
Topeke
Grave Robbing in Iowa Tied to Local Doctors and Officials
Details emerge in a suit seeking 50,000 damages over the grave robbing of Mrs Amanda Hannah at Vinton. The case links several prominent residents to the affair while a nephew recalls bones used in medical teaching and a doctor facing accusations of complicity. The action names Wesley G. Cummings of Vinton and others still residing in the state.
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Cxrpan Bartos
Mra
Amanda Hannah
Vinton
Demages
John Hannah
Amanda Duncan
Braplewood Cemetery
Wesley G. Cummings
Ltt
Cummings Io
Benton County
Sta
Horseless vehicles eyed for army trains by Gen Miles
On January 1 dispatch reports Gen Miles studying the potential of horseless carriages for military use. He notes the army at forty one posts already operates two or more wagons to move supplies and officials. A motor wagon could replace or aid current horse drawn transport, promising efficiency and cost savings.
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Miles
Wasursoron
Judge denounces Tombs prison as a miserable hovel
Judge Cow addressing the grand jury labeled the Tombs a disgraceful misfit to the city urging replacement by a larger modern building. Citizens including George Francis Train criticized Center street bastile in strong terms. Receiver McCook to install new McCook post. colors valued at $125 presented by Mrs Peerless Steam Laundry.
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Judge Cow
Songerst
Tombs Prison
Center Street Bastile
McCook
Stover
Susistant
Iola Jennery 2
McCook Post G
J. J. McCook
Banta Fe
The Star Grocery Price List and Items
A long readable list of grocery items and prices from The Star Grocery includes sugar, potatoes, Navy beans, jelly, oats, pancake flour, breakfast foods, starches, corn meal, salt, peas, corn, peaches, apricots, tobacco, molasses, sorghum, potatoes from Kansas, New York cheese, oysters, sardines, mustard, mince meat, apple butter, maple syrup, Vinton corn, prunes, evaporated fruits, and various canned goods. The entry portrays a dense catalog of pantry staples and household staples typical of a late 19th or early 20th century grocery circular.
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New Orleans
New York
Flour varieties listed in Topeka mill catalog 50 lb sacks
A fragment shows flour types and brands such as Shawnee Fancy Golden Rod Hackney Patent Crosbys No 7 Lily and Big 4 50 pound sacks including Topeka Pacent Crosbys Beer Letter Patent and Gold Dust. The note resembles a catalog entry or price list with itemized flour brands and sack weights.
Meats and Lard Prices and Varieties Listed
Dry Salt Meat per pound and sugar cured hams listed with retail prices. Includes California hams per pound, good white lard and white table lard options. Also references sugar cured breakfast bayon and other lard products. Price details are given per pound in this compact market listing.
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Bayon
California
Bess
Soap prices for various brands on sale
A fragment lists detergents and prices: Kirk's White Russian soap box, two Silk Soap per box from Procter and Gamble Lacox Bono, and 200 Fairbank's Brown Soap per box.
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Kirk
Csmen Proctor & Gamble
Fairbank
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Sre
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Leland
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Iowa
Peerless Steam Laundry
the Star Grocery
Pete
Bom CIA
J. S&s Sproat
the Star Grocer
East Sixth St
Bartholdt
Washington and
Lafayette
Paris
Joseph Pulitzer
Ortearre
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