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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1903
Page
7
A broad call for energetic, unimpeachable leadership seeks a manager to run branch offices. The ad notes a nationwide network, a $1000 investment offer, and commissions on savings, with housing options and strong references required.
A garbled classified listing offers various items for sale including watches, violins, stoves, refrigerators, kitchen items, sewing machines, road wagons, poultry, furniture, books, and more. Multiple locations and contact hints appear, with prices mostly nominal. reader must filter legible entries for purchase.
An old notice touts Chivers as Topeka's only steam dye works and preferred cleaners and hatters offering coat cleaning, velvet collars, summer suit cleaning, and prompt service. It also mentions Davis Wellcome & Co for Topeka real estate and Warren's stove store as winter needs.
An old Topeka classified style ad extols Send Your Duds to Chivers as the only practical cleaners and hatters with steam dye works. Warren’s at 32 Kansas Ave promises cheaper stoves and heaters and advertises heating deals. Matthews and Laybourn, cleaners and hatters, claim broad services and gear for clothing and home needs.
Benedict and Co advertises multiple houses near Washburn College and Bethany College with features like city water cemented cellars porches and wells. Listings include 4 and 5 room cottages 4 room houses with 20 barrel cisterns large cellars and fruit trees priced from 350 to 1000 with blocks of state house and corner lots and rental property potential.
Fragmented ad text touts a product called Texas magnetic oil by Paine Bros and others. It promises cures for rheumatism neuralgia asthma liver and blood diseases and cancer claims dramatic results with testimonials. Also lists Jewelers Warehouses clothing and stove ads in a miscellaneous automotive era style.
Per Conton Business Block a LISTED business block heart of city with fine stone front heated by Eaton steam modern in every respect no repairs needed eyeing one in Te ti gee res Use A Centre National Bank Bi.
Local farmer broker W M Forbes lists affordable farms near Silver City and North City offering improvements such as well water gas heat and a barn. Prices range around 500 to 3300 with terms including near May delivery and small down payments. Listings include 2 to 8 acre plots with fruit groves and orchard potential.
Barnes Real Estate Co advertises numerous rentals and sales in Topeka with steam heated residences, large barns, three lots on Harrison Street, corner properties, and eastern front parcels on Taylor Street. Listings include 2 and 3 room homes, modern amenities, rents around several hundred dollars, and special bargains on vacant lots and east front lots.
GEO M NOBLE CO advertises farm andacreage offerings near Topeka Kansas including 1280 acres of creek bottom land with improvements priced $6 per acre A-1 river bottom land at £15 E40 acres cultivated with improvements $8 Special bargains include five $1 acre farms near Topeka plus 100 Shawnee county farms and 30 to 40 desirable farms within 15 miles of Topeka
G B Payne & Co Topeka Kansas lists many city homes farms and tracts. Properties include two six room houses on Taylor Street three lots rents 88 monthly plus other brick and frame houses on Clay Westarh and Buchanan streets with various sizes and prices. Numerous acres orchards and farms described with terms offered and invitation to call for selection. Many entries mention bargains and wide city coverage.
Marion Sheldon of 715 Kansas Ave seeks exchanges or purchases in real estate. Offers include two lots with a modern 19 room house, large barn, and improvements for 9000 dollars. one or both lots for a farm with several buildings. mortgage options mentioned. Also seeking resale or exchange for a western residence up to 2000 dollars and other real estate deals and insurance inquiries.
Real estate column lists numerous houses and farms for sale or trade in Torrrington and Shawnee county areas. Entries include 3 to 7 room houses, cottages on Tapela and Monroe avenues, farm acreage up to 90 acres, fruit standings, and trade offers for larger homes. Nearby routes and streets noted with prices and terms, including payments, down payments, and rent options.
Owner of a handsome city home with eight rooms and fine bath seeks a smaller place, preferably a cottage, in a good west side location with a barn. Property features front and back stairs, large bars, and notable improvements. Interested buyers are invited to arrange a showing.
Real estate brief from Topeka Kansas advertising multiple properties on Monroe and Buchanan streets. Includes lots with city water, cisterns, ponds, barns, modern rooms, shade, prices around 1000 to 530 dollars, and mentions numerous residences and business parcels on Kansas Avenue. Also notes phone contact 960 and 112 E. 6th St.
Parcelins has a modern residence with bath water closet furnace heat on West Ride close in. Three corner lots with a convenient analy late on Tyler. Residence at Washburn area, 21 years old, 7 rooms, 4 fine rooms, on 10th street. Asking price 4000.
Partial OCR mentions a house and three lots with references to a line, frontage, and a note about a public sale or official action. No clear dates names or locations are readable, leaving an uncertain property notice and unrelated garbled words.
Westerfield Co lists multiple real estate notices in Topeka Kansas including 6 room cottages near 6th and Jefferson with cellars wells and plumbing, 7 room house with heat, 4 room new house with extra barn and cellar, near paved street and car lines. Also mentions acre and multiacre plots near the city, orchard, and farm properties. Includes trade offers and timber value notes plus a Santa Fe shop min and office block reference.
Cozy six room cottage advertised with flexible payments near Aryn Avenue. City water and gas accessory fittings noted. Financing through TER STRAUSS AGENCY and Central National Bank.
1% lots near Holliday Park sold quickly with small room residence hall bathroom and closet three blocks from post office. Asking price 3150 selling for 3170. Barns Heal Estate CG, 4 West Mith Street.
House for sale near Washburn College. Moveable structure in progress of removal from Jocarion area, Ti Tyler. Inquiries directed to BA Topeka.
Real estate notices advertise farms and ranches for sale and exchange across Kansas and neighboring states. Listings include 30 acres near Topeka, 140 acres cultivated, 15 acres timber and pasture, a good barn and fruit, plus a 14 mile out farm with 4 rooms and water. City property and small tracts 1 to 49 acres also offered.
In a fragmentary ad scan readers see references to Orchard Face Dewkatary and Culiegy stations with multiple street tags and prices like 08 tm 1ath and Jackson. Details are incomplete but indicate a broad range of parcels offered by various agents.
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