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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1904
Page
10
An old German Brethren meeting segment blends a humorous cobbler dialogue about philosophy and a garbled travel notice. Notable is Vogtestein’s abrupt entrance and a stray advertisement about Missouri Pacific rail tickets to Carthage, Missouri, with a May round trip fare and a Topeka connection.
A reflective essay on restraint and duty unfolds around a ferryman guarding gates. It compares outward uniformed form to inner purpose, praising measured action, crowd dynamics, and the police role in maintaining order with disciplined timing and restraint.
Official notice announces a candidate for the seventeenth district state senate. It references the qualification of electors and mentions the Bolwan designation under the defkition of the qua electors.
Fragmentary OCR shows a garbled notice with names, streets, and property references followed by a long literary insert about elevators and a crowd scene. The readable elements hint at property parcels and local places, but the text mixes unrelated fiction and dialogue, yielding no clear news event or outcome.
New York May 4 reports Twenty one husbands in Bayonne forming the Married Men's Home Preservation Society to curb the euchre habit. they plan to educate wives and others, citing domestic strain from late nights and club meetings. Letters from other towns endorsed the movement. Klekx named president. Also included are brief dispatches on New Orleans police payoffs, diamonds price shifts, and rail excursion notices with assorted housekeeping ads.
A lengthy, fragmented collection of rental notices and misc. sales listings. Items include for rent houses and rooms at various addresses such as 4 Jackson St and Taylor St, alongside hotel rooms in Garden City Kan. Also present are shop and store space, furnished rooms, and miscellaneous sale offers throughout Topeka and nearby areas.
A jumbled ad page notes the removal of a domestic and standard machine office from Gry Kansas to BS Woeth wt Ladies' Exchininge led. It includes contact phone 127 UL 2 and lists services such as massage parlors, beauty services, instrument repairs, undertakers, and piano lessons. The fragmentary text also mentions a Grug store, a funeral director, lawn mower sharpening, and local trades.
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