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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1897
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal offers low cost classified ads for employment and notices. Ads must be placed by specific deadlines and are limited in length. The paper promotes wide local circulation and affordable rates, with five cents per line and monthly rates offered.
A list of numerous Topeka addresses and street intersections including Fire Station locations at No. 3 and No. 4, with cross streets such as Monroe, Kious, Kansas, Taylor, Fourth, Third, and Van Buren. Mentions Kansas Avenue, Topeka Avenues, Euclid, Grove, and various crossings. Also notes a promotional line for One Minute Cough Case by G. W. Stansfield at 632 Kansas Avenue.
A joint Populist caucus in Washington produced an address denouncing the Dingley tariff as agitation and linking it to monetary contraction and monopoly rule. It argues both parties fail to cure gold standard evils, pledging to press reform in Congress while warning against voting for final passage.
Colonel William B. Cody known as Buffalo Bill sits at the Hoffman House after returning from his 25 000 acre Wyoming ranch. He notes rising cattle prices and increasing profitability in cattle raising while predicting demand will grow as irrigation transforms dry western lands. He claims vast grazing areas can be irrigated to create fertile pastures.
A new office building at 298-206 Broadway by the HG. Dun company disturbed a graveyard over a century old. Workers reportedly adorned wood with skull motifs. Local historians recall the site as Peters Field, about a hundred years ago. Old residents seek remedies in Electric Tutt vyters and Little Early Risers from local druggists.
Rumor says Senator Platt purchased the F.RR Houghton country seat near New Rochelle for about 100000. The French chateau style residence features costly decorations and extensive grounds, offering a private country retreat while staying near Lawn to access aides and weekly conferences.
Secretary Gage orders release of household effects held for duties to Mrs Algernon Sartoris formerly Nellie Grant. Collec tor Kilbreth directs shipment to 20 Massachusetts Avenue Washington. Goods claimed for personal use in London and Washington, previously in Mrs Sartoris home.
In Wichita on March 30 police officer Tudee Hatton and Signal Service Officer Johnson with about two Kalehts of Pythias lodge members reported seeing an air ship last night. A bright light about four inches in diameter appeared in the northeast sky and swiftly moved northward.
Washington reports a new rule requiring a rectifier’s license of 10 per year for taverns selling bottled cocktails to travelers. The ruling, aimed at a local confectioner supplying clubs, excludes cocktails manufactured openly with purchaser present.
Fragmented notice cites De t's Little Early Hissers pills for headache constipation and dyspepsia and promotes W. Phillips real estate tours via Santa Fe Route on April 6 and 20. It also touts One Minute Cough Cure for croup and credits G W Stansfield at 632 Kansas Avenue for sales.
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