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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1897
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal runs free Saturday to Tuesday notices for Situations Wanted exceeding five lines. Advertisers must submit by Saturday morning. ads otherwise booked midweek. The paper promotes low rates, five cents per line, with favorable circulation and broad reach for Topeka readers.
Bank record dated July 25 1807 shows assets including cash coins currency notes held deposits and checks. The entry lists specie legal tender notes and various items such as fractional currency and certificates.
A plain common man confesses love to Lady Muriel Varneigh amid a ballroom drama. She accepts marriage for duty, but a hidden past and temptation test their fragile bond as the dancer watches from the shadows. Muriel prays for strength while the couple faces a tangled future.
A fragmented verse laments an aged parlor sofa where grandfather snores. The speaker defends the chair against mockery and recalls countless tears shed. The lines mix playful mockery with nostalgia for family memory and shared afternoons.
A collage of quips and jokes from New York journals and other papers. It features light skits on marriage twins fashion weather astrology and social manners with names like Moonshineville Crossroads Trade Was Ruined and Perfectly Natural.
A London sketch notes Mrs. Willoughby Fox has imported ostriches from Bahia Blanca, La Plata, rearing them in Surrey. The birds, smaller than Cape ostriches, reach about seven feet, run up to 25 miles an hour, and have white feather masses under their wings used for boys.
The article describes ostriches imported from Bahia Blanca thriving in England, their size diet habits and temperaments, including occasional whisky and nails as food remnants, and notes their silly, stubborn nature and potential value as decorative birds. It also gives practical home tips on storing silverware packing trunks and a brief promotion for Electric Bitters as a stomach and digestive aid.
In 1896 the State Journal moved to a new three floor pressed brick home on Kan sas avenue and Eighth street. The paper features four Linotypes and a fast Web Perfecting Press and reaches over 11 000 in daily circulation with 43 carriers. Under current management for over eleven years the daily circulation rose from 890 to above 11 000, showing steady growth.
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