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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1897
Page
7
Furnished room and furnished house advertised at 126 Polk. Classified section lists rents, sit uations, real estate, auction sales and other ad vertisements.
Bids due by twelve oclock noon for erection and components at the state insane asylum in Topeka Kansas. Sealed bids accompanied by a certified check of at least 1 percent payable to the board to secure performance. Sealed and addressed to WL Brown president Board of Trustees State Charitable Institutions Topeka marked Proposal for Pub Works.
In a rural scene a traveler learns of a planned mule race over to Scottsville and the tension between rival riders Dan Carter and Ike Hooper. A crowd gathers as threats rise into a heated confrontation until a station agent intervenes, exposing the entire episode as a staged display by locals.
A bruising talk about fixing a mule race turns violent as plans for a ten foot start ignite threats of shooting. One man returns alive with a bullet and stab wounds after claiming an ambush followed by fire and chaos.
Passengers witnessed two heavily armed men in cowboy garb riding into Blues Hill station. They faced off with pistols and knives drawn, tension rising as women and children were moved to safety. Onlookers warned of a deadly confrontation unless authorities intervened.
Frank M. Reed of Anderson claims a patentable method to convert oil into gas for ship engines that burns cleaner, yields 10 percent more heat with half the oil, replaces coal and soot with smokeless operation, and could reduce crew needed on war vessels from thirty stokers to one. Judge Chipman will file patent applications in Washington.
In Parliament the first lord of the admiralty announced a supplementary levy of 30.40 pounds to boost naval strength. Four additional armored cruisers of 110 tons each will be started, designed to clash with battleships and guard communications. £ Now for torpedo boat destroyers, and faster completion of ships already under way.
In Parliament Lord George Harling asks why the East Indian railway bought 7.78 tons of Baltimore rails. Government rail price bids differed, British bid higher than American tender. The record notes a cost dispute over rail sourcing for the project.
A BEACHSIDE tale unfolds as a man meets a talking mermaid named Maud and her cousin Genevieve while reading The Chronicle. She lights his pipe, they flirt, and after a playful kiss a sudden tail strike sends him sprawling. The mermaid vanishes, leaving only his wet newspaper and a dreamlike memory.
The fragment invokes a mother’s voice and distant memories of a happy home. A child recalls melodic tones, longing, and the pull of that old familiar refrain. Marthe A. Elddar is referenced in New York Home Jane nal.
A North American Review piece questions why American women marry Englishmen and whether it serves the greater good. It explores motives from country life and roads to attraction, social restraint, placid British stolidity, and personal courtship, weighing economic and cultural factors.
A naturalist in Nimes, France reports a sparrow in La Revue Scientifique that imitated finches and crickets after being kept with other birds. It never learns its own species cry, suggesting early nest departure affected its development. Various anecdotes on Orsini and romance follow, with European populace data noting matches consumed per person.
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