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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1894
Page
5
A report outlines expenditures of the Republican State Committee with itemized costs across travel, meals, and office supplies. It details payments to staff, vendors, and campaign activities, listing totals by category and date ranges reflecting the committee’s financial activity.
The Republican state central committee filed at the county clerk’s office a detailed statement showing total expenses of 18,413.30 with receipts far lower, revealing a deficit of about 206 percent. Major costs included printing, stamps, travel, meals, and entertaining, with notable items for speakers and miscellaneous allowances.
Bargains on upright pianos at 250 and 275 dollars, 3300 and up, plus second hand uprights and square pianos. Organs offered at 35 dollars and a Lyon and Healy upright at 100. Banjo guitars and mandolins cut to 135 100 175 with reductions on sheet music and accessories.
A November 28 report from Hartford, Conn., notes bondholders of Garden City Irrigation and the irrigation company own two major properties in southwestern Kansas. A Friday meeting ordered ditch repairs and property refitting at an estimated 15 000 to 20 000 dollars. The goal is to certify operation for fish crops with 0 000 acres served by the ditches, marking the first large state effort by the Sind.
General Superintendent A J Hiss of the Rock Island discusses a time change across the system with division heads. Effective Sunday December, two rides shift in Topeka, adjusting south and west trains to alter arrival and departure times. Other Topeka services will revert to current times with minor adjustments.
A Burlington youth identified as Hubbard appeared before Justice Puschycrerley pleading guilty to using "foals" to defraud and was fined $25 plus costs. He hails from Coffey County and his father paid the fine. The item includes scattered notes on local events, weather, theater costs, and civic notices.
Read and take the elevator to the second floor to discover the carpet and curtain department’s largest curtain sale in Topeka. No profit cuts, affordability emphasized with ruffled muslin curtains in a fresh fashion. Prices cut from 2.50 to 1.45 per pair.
A Stevenson & Co advertisement lists pin cushions in various prices from Te to $2.00, tops and covers, head rests, table covers, fringes, China silk and satin fabrics, pillow shams, and a new Japanese cloth line at 50c a yard. It also promotes Christmas fans, Parisian novelty The Henrietta dress support, and a ticket giveaway for Wilber Co. performances at the Grand Opera.
A historic ad promotes an Ingrain department on a single floor offering 25 patterns and three flyers. It highlights yardage deals with regular 45c to 60c Ingrain fabrics discounted to 30c, 36c, and 453c per yard, plus a hand some line of Ingram Art Squares in all sizes and reduced Curtain Muslin by the yard in narrow and wide widths.
Visit Our Dress Goods' Department in the Rear of South Aisle. Covert Cloth English make, 54 inches wide, colors. This week only 79 a yard. 15 colors of Twillback French Broadcloth, 54 ins wide. This week 89c.
Carpet sweepers selling now for 2.59 and 3.73. Brussels curtains 7.50 a pair, 50 pair on sale. Cretonne and Silkoline fabrics priced at 12.46 to 15 cents per yard. Jute and fringe fabrics priced from 12 to 15 cents per yard. Windows shades with springs 25 to 35 cents. Curtain poles wood or brass 25 cents. Straw matting and oil cloth rugs offered at low prices. Carpet sweepers marketed as ideal Christmas presents.
A fragment notes the seventh annual convention of the National Barbers Union to be held next week in St Paul with P Miller cited from the Tu eke Barbers union as a delegate. It mentions various town news items including a Topeka visitor, a New York financier aiding General Menegord, and Missouri politics around Bland.
A Canadian report to the state consent from United States Consul Bishop of Chat Canada notes tariff effects on western timber markets. It states steel mills in Michigan and elsewhere resume manufacture, consumers save 5 to 10 percent next year, and timber demand grows as capitalists buy southern tracts. Canada increases purchases of yellow pine and other U S woods for Hoering, flooring, and inside Swish freight costs rise with Canadian demand.
The World reports Mrs Augusta Thurow has gone to Europe after testifying before the Lexow committee on June 4 detailing blackmail schemes by Fifth Street station house police. Her sister Mrs Frederick Seyd confirms the trip and money carried, with claims police officials funded her departure to Europe.
A proposal discussed after Secretary Herbert’s push for torpedo boats would arm interior militia with town and river navy. The plan envisions building fifty small torpedo boats, training state naval militias, and rail-transporting craft to any coastal or inland waterway, enabling rapid concentration at threatened points.
A Berlin Times dispatch reports a crowded Munich Social Democrats gathering where Volimar denounced Herr Bebel, stormy scenes erupted as speakers defended him, and police barred an American from speaking. The meeting adopted a resolution censuring Bebel and backing South German socialist leaders.
A mixed page item notes widespread support among Japanese communities for war efforts, mentions a society with hospitals, royal princes, and nobles, plus a Boston area notice about public sales and the sale of goods via the Santa Fe line. Also includes remedies and local business notices.
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