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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1896
Page
6
In Topeka society circles a charity event hosted by the Pheecherat committee featured music by the Hostellar and Watona orchestras. The evening included a formal floor, a substantial guest list, refreshment service, and a range of local ladies and gentlemen noted as attendees, with plans for future gatherings and notable visitors from surrounding towns.
North Topeka notes list visits and arrivals from Carbondale to Denver including Rev Max Houguelin and G W Currier. Local residents plan trips to Kansas City and De Soto while Max Krause prepares a new cottage corner of Tonpese avenue and Haltpond street. Miss Vera Wallace foregoes winter travel for Salvation Army work amid health concerns.
The notice sells passengers on vestibulated sleep cars and dining service to Chicago and St Louis via the Burlington and Vestibuled Link routes. It touts new compartment sleepers, chair cars, and enticing fares. Agent contact details list Wichita, St Louis, and Kansas avenues with schedule cues.
Report covers railroad matters in Kansas including passenger service changes on branch lines, a conductor’s funeral in Emporia, a Civil War veteran who rose from private to captain, Halloween pranks near Humboldt causing damage to baggage cars, and notes on ongoing labor actions affecting routes and schedules.
The Ganwatomie Journal reports Hart Fisher, an elder in the community, promoted following an investigation into a beer train accident on the Jar track near Paula and Kan City. Pinher was exonerated. Fisher’s new role comes amid local support from friends and neighbors.
The article notes L R Hampton once held a position at Santa Fe in Wellington and was involved in a past shooting and murder. It mentions a liquor connection to the crime and reports a shift in Santa Fe Wellington shop workers hours from 22 m to 7 0 0 and 5 0 in the evening, reducing weekly hours by four.
The New York Anarchiste announced a gathering to denounce the Chicago Haymarket hangings. Herr Most led remarks calling the executed men judicially murdered and urging continued anarchist action while promoting solidarity among workers against state violence.
Chicago November 10 5 a former manager of the Bay City Michigan Tribune Kennett was arrested here on a warrant issued by John Fide and Adventt Can ningtonw for alleged wrongdoing. The warrant was issued in connection with the case involving the Bay City publication. The article includes oblique references and garbled names. The Rise of Pills Heachams Beechama is noted in the text.
A Kansas City office block on Main and Missouri avenues was sold at sheriff’s sale for $129,000. The auction focused on mortgage foreclosure. bidders and investors attended as the building changed hands amid a crowded scene.
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