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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1901
Page
14
A jumble of classified sale notices lists items and offers across towns and streets. Cattle, stone, tools, real estate, and farm goods appear with various contact hints and partial, garbled details. The fragmentary page conveys a bustling but unreadable market catalog from a past era.
Real estate office Barnes Real Estate lists multiple properties on W. 5th Street and Wester Avenue including seven room residences, cottages with cisterns and wells, and rental cottages with various features. The ad touts insurance writing at low rates and notes agency for some leading companies.
The Strauss Agency lists many properties for sale in a mixed describe-and-negotiate style. Mentions Woodlawn and Potwiss Beebarty areas, cottages and a spacious acre in the city heart, suburb residences near Wakeburn College, with various boards and price appeals. Deals are framed as bargains.
City property for sale by Payne and Thompson in Tawhman Fite near Tawhman. Includes modern house with barn, bath, and acreage on Torcks avenue. Monthly payments set at 81,200 with terms to buy. Agency listed as Payne and Thompson on Kansas Avenue.
Describes a sizable Leroy Kansas tract on Cotey Styres road with 130 acres plowed and 160 acres smooth bottom soil. Includes 2) creek pasture, 60 acres of timbered feed lots, and creek bottom soil free of trees. Highlights suitability for wheat and general farming with high quality creek bottom land.
Barn es Real Estate Co lists 121 West Fifth Street properties including lots, a corner near Fillmore Street, a one room cottage with modern conveniences and a 2 room building on Fillmore Street. Properties include 60 acres near a river with fruit and shade, 20 acres bearing, and other river district plots. Listing notes nearby towns and roads with prices.
S M Wood & Co offers include a close in Fillmore street house with two lots, paved access, and several city properties. Farms for Ellsworth and Elk counties priced around $10 to $12 per acre, plus Pratt and Smith county ranches with multiple buildings, water and timing details. Also city properties with strong rental yields, business opportunities, and rental listings, plus inquiries about loans and swaps.
For sale W C Stephenson Co offers various properties on city blocks and corners near Maison Tapesta and Pemcenari. Listings include 2 3 and 4 room cottages with city water sewer and electric light, 1 7 room houses, and 3 lots with payments plans and discounts. Prices range with down payments and monthly installments. real estate loans and insurance available.
Manspeaker Henderson advertises 9 acres in Labette County with 79 acres cultivated and 10 acres pasture and timber, a 4 room house, and hinge. Also lists 420 acres southeast of Fredonia, 14 acres in Franklin County near Lane, and 75 acres bottom land in Wabaunsee County with house, barns, and improvements. Includes a wood lot near Woodsoe and several city lots with rental incomes and a conventetion. Requires cash or terms, calls for farm and city property loans, and invites buyers to contact Manspeaker Henderson at 704 Kansas Ave.
For sale farms 320 acres with improvements near city limits 72 mills out eastern area miles from northwest of city. extensive land options near Dijon Boyer 26 miles away. 34 miles west of acres land close to city with good improvements. Office block Humphreys. North Topeka cottage 4 rooms near Tyler Ave 5th Street. Rest lot portions.
Real estate notice lists various properties for sale or rent near the college area. Includes a 4 room modern house, a 2 room cottage, a 7 room Neuse area home, 3 lots, and a 5 room house with barn on a fine corner. Also offers farms around 30 to 160 acres, stock or grass farms, and additional small tracts with phone contact for E.G. Dacron.
The page lists numerous Topeka services including Chivers Cleaning and Dying Works, Roediger's Cleaning and Dying, Warren's Furniture and Stoves, and Chivers advertising storm coat cleaning, dyeing, and repair. Multiple entries push Storms all wool pants, stove sales, and secondhand goods with phone contacts and addresses on Kansas Ave and nearby streets.
The Shawnee County commissioners order a special election on November fifth to levy one mill on all taxable property for two years to fund permanent improvements at the Shawnee County Fair Grounds. The measure, if approved, would authorize bond-like spending and requires voter ballot approval.
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