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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1896
Page
5
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a person named Johns and a fire site with deaths. It references Mineral Water, Phillips, Elie, Geo Klein & Co, and a local Kansas newspaper, with unclear dates and details.
Fragmentary OCR lists meal names Our Saturday Dinner Our Sunday Dinner and oxtail soup duck and cranberry sauce plus garbled restaurant text. No clear event dates or entities beyond meals and restaurant fragments.
A sprawling OCR dump reports on police activity, court actions, and local incidents. It mentions Chief Gardiker, a new case of diphtheria in Gus Givenma, a railroad worker in Atchison, and various citywide police and public safety efforts. Multiple names appear with uncertain details, outlining a tense urban scene.
Washington reports Sec Hamlin remitted a fine on the British steamer Boyte for failure to produce proper documents. M. E. Ingalls is re elected coachman, and D. B. Lang, the president, were re elected in the Big Four railway lines election.
Report says Democrats will protest the Northfield Staten Island canvass over alleged machine bias. The seven districts used the Slevers voting machine, which critics claim did not conform to the Salen law and could invalidate votes. If canvassers side with Democrats, Ellsworth, Rewapiian, and Shaw may be unseated, shifting counts in favor of Joseph F. O Grady.
Nov 12 Maris Dressler an actress was granted an absolute divorce from George Prazcis of Gronville North. The couple wed May 8 184 and separated six months later. An affair with another woman was charged. Osirk Implement Co of Springfield Missouri reports a debt dispute of 19008 and states the waste will pay out.
Rochester reports the general assembly discussed government ownership of railroads telegraph and phone with protests and sympathy strikes. A note on changes brought by invention and warnings of upsetting trade unions follows. In Mass Massachusetts California sit-downs and Knights protests mentioned. Waltham Watch Company announces full production restart next Monday as fall blast operations begin.
Dispatches from San Francisco report plans for a new Pacific coast route linking with the Transcontinental line. Two steamship lines await approval, with Weider Wilhelm & Sone of Philadelphia and Potter & Co of New York named as interested agents, as Chicago hosts discussion of the project. The piece notes enthusiastic coverage by Marshall Fick. The second item highlights a positive report from the First African Baptist Church in Winston about Pastor J D Olden’s year, showing funds spent and debt reduced, with thanks to contributors and residents.
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