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Topeka Notes on Elections and Local Events
A jumble of Topeka items notes housing scarcity and Edward Wilder improving, mayoral voting rules, civil service exams, and social events. Mentions candidates with book stores, jury and police actions, dam ordinance, campaign dinners, court actions, and a stage incident involving a child actor in The Danites. Local figures include Judge Morton, Miss Yaw, Ellen Beach Yaw, and Mayor Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Wilder
Topeka
Banta Fe
New York
Flint
Crawford
Elkhorn Club
Hutchinson
Atchison
Battery B
Woman's Republican Association
Masonic Building
Tom Shillington
East Fifth Street
Trilby
Sunflower Camp
Modern Woodmen
Sivan
W. F. Lake
Johueon
West Fourth Street
Ellen Beach
James Jamison
Raton
New Mexico
The
Santa Fe
Harrison
Charlie Fellows
Shorey
First National Bank of
Rossington, Smith & Dallas
District Court
Frank B. Rix
John Wilkerson
J. P. Harris
M.A. Tiskham
Oakland
J. W. Laughlin
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Polk and
Huntoon Streets
Snead
United States
D. Irwin Gabel
Holton
Gabel
Pellowa