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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1894
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR shows references to train routes including Topeka and Santa Fe lines, noting stations, departures, and connections. Mentions of arrivals, specific routes, and possible timetable halts appear, but many words are garbled. The readable portions emphasize railroad travel details and network names.
Schedule notes list train times and connections with stops on Boos Island. Includes remarks on daily service except Saturday and mentions Owens Bridge and Fleet Street with references to Garvey City and Denver & Michigan West.
A fragmented tale centers on Mike Sheehan and rival Jack Tierney in a famed Kilbride wrestling duel. Ghostly spectators gathered at the old abbey graveyard as Sheehan battles a death grip from Tierney’s specter, aided by Ellen’s whispered urging, climaxing with Sheehan defeating the ghost and claiming the living prize.
A fragment notes an editor praising a 10 year old poet in Omaha. The brief lines refer to the youth as a bright writer whose verses show promise. The tone suggests admiration and amusement from the editor.
A colored boy with a letter near Brush Street is accosted by an old limping man who insists the box is not a mailbox. The man forces the boy to insert the letter, explaining it is misdirected to the engine house, and warns the boy to remember him for a hundred years if he repeats the act. Nearby, a Montreal anecdote lampoons napkin scarcity and a tavern misstep.
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