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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1897
Page
7
Help wanted notices offer free placement in Topeka State Journal with limits on word count and run days. Includes instructions on submission times Wednesday through Saturday, with notices for jobs, rooms, and business ads. Mentions rates, circulation, and a note on advertiser obligations. Other entries list vacancies, livestock requests, and services offered by local professionals.
Orders involve COAL Fisur and Seede with Van Slyck listed as party. Details indicate a coordinated procurement and shipping arrangement. Named entities include COAL Fisur Seede Van Slyck and potential associated firms. Further context unclear due to fragmented OCR.
Sealed proposals will be received at Topeka by the board of trustees of the state charitable institutions until twelve o clock August 11 1897 for erection and completion of an additional wing to the state insane asylum at Topeka Kansas. Plans and specifications may be seen after August 1 1897 at the state architect and at Kansas City offices. Bids must be accompanied by a certified check of not less than five percent, payable to FH Dolan treasurer, for penalties if the bidder fails to enter into contract. The board may reject any and all bids. Sealed bids to W T L Brown president, marked Proposal for Public Works at Topeka.
Uniformed attendants organized by New York Central at Grand Central Station New York City have grown popular with travelers including strangers and women solo travelers. Red cap corps now at entrances waiting rooms and train posts to assist from carriage to train carry luggage and direct to lines. Service is free no tips required and attendants are multilingual and well informed.
Washington July 6 report on taft matter shows limited progress as senate reads conference report. Berry presses for plain language on sugar duties while Allison defends 96 degree sugar protections for beet processors and criticizes house gains. Debate notes distrust of the conference accord and prevailing sugar trust benefits amid market reaction and claims of surrender by the house.
London July 22 Associated Press reports confusion over a death claim tied to an arbitration treaty. Sir Julian Paunceforte discussed the issue with Secretary Sherman and Lord Salisbury since arriving. The matter is expected to reopen in Washington in October with a shorter treaty for submission to governments.
Nine crew members of the Belgian steamer Concha drowned after the vessel collided with the British steamer St Pillans off the Isle of Wight. Concha sank while St Pillans sustained heavy bow damage. St Pillans had seven Concha crew aboard to be brought to port from Rotterdam for New York.
In Topeka, a long line of street pairs and intersections are listed as fire alarm keys or station references across numerous avenues and streets including Kansas Avenue Fourth Street Topeka Avenue Grant Street and more. The text also notes a Newsitem about Fred Beeler returning from Chicago with cattle stock and cattle sale offers, mentioning a Rock Island live stock agent.
Senator Baker introduces a bill to split Kansas into southern and northern districts. It lists counties assigned to each district, names the presiding judge and officials, designates court locations and schedules, and notes existing Indian Territory jurisdiction moves to the southern district. The bill outlines resident terms and pending case determinations.
Chicago reports Theodore Schints, a lawyer and private banker, under investigation for mismanaging about 100000 in liabilities and 90000 in assets, with around 200000 from German and Bohemian friends as deposits or promises of interest, leaving victims with receipts or vague promises.
West Virginia dispatch reports two boys attacked at a farm near Moundsville by an unknown man with a bristle hoe. Stanley Mason, 11, fatally injured. Willis Mason, 4, severely beaten. Mrs Mason and husband separated years ago. assailant seen in Moundsville. mayor offers reward and swift justice. The attacker tried to kill the wife but she escaped.
In Topeka and nearby, various notices and arrivals appear. Mise Hedsie Burges is ill on Monroe street while Miss Clara Smith returns from Kansas City visits. RW Blair, Union Pacific attorney, arrives in Garden City, and Mrs E Smyth of Chicago visits sister Miss Alice Courtright. George Mayer's bakery goods advertised with fresh material. Also local names J M Morrow, Irwin Dittenderfer, Hannen, and others noted with travel plans and social visits. Relief ad promotes Great South American Kidney Cure with local druggists listed.
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