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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1899
Page
7
A garbled OCR style excerpt appears to reference health, beauty products, and potions. It mentions methods to improve freshness and beauty, a bottle, and regressive statements about easing conditions. The text is incomplete and lacks clear names, dates, or locations.
Douglas county farmer W. J. Harris was locked in the Palace Clothing store Monday by a clerk named John Marshall and freed at 3 pm after nearly three hours. Harris, well dressed and amused, told a reporter he came to trade, questioned Topeka practices, and asked to catch the 3:40 train to Bore.
A rough Topeka scene includes a man named Harris leaving a store after a tense incident as townsfolk search for key carriers. The piece shifts to advertisements for Pickles and Chow Chow from Otto Kuehne and Co, then claims a Mystic Cure for rheumatic pain. Beggs German Salve ads promise cures and drugstore sales across Kansas Avenue.
City council votes to discharge two sanitary workers as part of retrenchment amid a wage and staffing debate. Councilman Skinner brands the department as overstaffed and pushes for economic operation. The body also ratifies a contract for a new electric light engine and directs the city engineer to plan its installation.
A Plano notice advertises a publication offering ad space at five cents a line per day. The brief invites customers to place notices and mentions affordable rates and daily publication. The fragmentary text emphasizes cost and availability for advertisers.
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