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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1899
Page
5
The late G. G. Gage is remembered as intentions are carried out, with 80 acres acquired for Gage Park to the Topeka area. The property includes a large artificial lake fed by spring water and lies a mile from the city center.
Twenty acres are set aside for a new city park in Topeka named Gage Park. The gift comes from the late Gage family with heirs supporting the donor’s wishes. The park lies between Biath and Tenth avenues, two miles west of the state house, and a committee led by Mayor Drew will oversee its development and upkeep.
Mr and Mrs H L Robinson hosted a card party honoring Miss Caro Penfield and Mr Eurin Williams on Ven Buren street. Notables included Miss Penficid and Miss Franc Heteer among many guests. prizes went to Miss Oli Ourien and Mr John Waters. Also mentions visitors, upcoming parties, and local social updates with several names and places in Topeka and nearby towns.
North Tupeka notes list hats at cost at the Bazar, new suitors at Mrs Courtney's, hammocks at reduced prices at Foucht's, and several residents traveling or visiting relatives. Snakes reported in area farms, with a rattler killed near Fred Buechner's garden. Julia Lessie Garner to Wilmington this week. Miss Alice Safford departing for Colorado to stay until September.
City officials weigh donation of a tract west of Topeka between Sixth and Tensbury, including water feature called Saas Lake and existing farm buildings. The Gage heirs offer eighty acres for a public park with conditions to maintain fruit and vegetable plots and allow limited use by health and recreation groups while preserving current cattle and farm structures until next winter.
Kenton Press charges George B. Cox dominates Hamilton County politics through immoral means and legislative payoffs. It claims Cox writes laws for benefit of patronage, controls city finances, and seeks senate leadership via Hanna and Coxman alliances, with Caldwell as a tool. The piece questions citizens’ views on Cox Nash Cox and Cash.
The Manila correspondent details Filipino women’s attire and bearing, noting mid range attraction and neat dress. He contrasts elegant undergarments and shoulder bearing with crude habits such as betel chewing and spitting, concluding their look is pictorial yet offputting on closer view.
In Bristol township Bucks county a three acre woodland tract hosts a growing night heron colony. Thirty years ago a pair of black crowned night herons settled near an oak, nesting with four green eggs. The site draws curious visitors each April as the birds arrive and the mystery of their choice remains.
A historic account describes a thriving heron colony in local woods. The original pair raised four young, the male catching fish at the Delaware River, and the family grew into thousands. Each spring they reclaim the woods, nesting high in trees, with the call of quawks filling the grove from twilight to sunrise.
A damaged fragment describes a northern state colony founded by a pair of berone survivors. It mentions forest fire devastation, Boron ia, Hock county, wandermen, and names like Derat and Arwat, but details are unclear. The text preserves names and places despite asides and garbled wording.
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