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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1897
Page
5
A Topeka Commercial Club banquet celebrated the city and its future. Speakers praised Topeka’s industrial growth, urged home manufacturing, better city planning, and a stronger commercial group. The event highlighted ambitions for an auditorium, riverfront improvements, and a broader civic program.
Hutchinson visitors and Topeka residents figure in a crowded rundown of town doings. Commencement at Bethany College begins next week while North Topeka adds a new railroad meeting and a club shoot.
Edward Wilder forecasts a future Topeka rooted in civic progress and shared public sentiment. He emphasizes modest ambitions to stimulate thought, urging development of mass empowerment and humane city growth while critiquing privilege and urging community engagement.
Agreement filed with the secretary of state shows the Kansas City Pittenburg and Gulf railroad purchased Pullman passenger cars to be paid in monthly installments totaling 17 3m. T. F. P. Doran resigns as secretary of the Committee of Fifteen. successor unnamed. Suffrage club profits from weekend session and plans to join Federation of Clubs. Ada Rehan suit for service on a statue tour seeks 241. W. F. Schoch named administrator for estate of Indian Letendre. Queen Victoria Jubilee association to meet in Topeka to plan celebration. Burlington resident Miss Lucy Henley dies at Santa Fe hospital in Gill City aged 31. Memorial day exercises planned at high school with G A R officers and students. New national memorial hymn to be sung. City police uniforms and drill ongoing.
Travel offers sharply reduced fares to San Francisco with the Rock Island Route. Tickets on sale June 29 through July inclusive, one way 22 dollars 60 cents, round trip 45 dollars. Stopover allowed. See Jones for ice phone 430.
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