This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1894
Page
3
Immense stock includes upright pianos at 250 275 and up. Second hand pianos square pianos and organs priced and marketed. Tone Lyon Healy CPRIGET piano at 100. Uprights 135 150 175 200. Banjo guitars mandolins and strings heavily discounted. Sheet music available at reduced per copy rate.
Nov 30 This place faced a deadly crash as a New York and New England passenger train struck a large wagon carrying the Worcester Polytechnic Institute football team. Three players were killed instantly and twelve injured as the wagon was demolished and bodies scattered along the tracks. Victims include Gauthier Nelson and Joseph Cole among others.
In a AP interview Lille Havemeyer, president of the sugar refining firm, and Adolph Spreckels, California refinery director, discuss safeguarding sugar trade east and west of the Missouri River. They fault foreign competition and tariffs, argue refinery closures would cost tens of thousands of jobs, and note Chinese sugar imports rising as German and English firms dominate refined sugar. Local political notes touch on a Populist contest in Montgomery and related unrest and court cases across several states.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal examined banks and will continue through early next week. Supreme court judges have not named the state librarian, with no appointment expected before Tuesday. Governor Lewelling plans to stay in Wichita over Thanksgiving and return next Tuesday. A. A. dance at BK of P hall drew over 200 attendees on East Sixth. George W. Jones arrived from Mound City and said he will not seek the assistant superintendent post. A streetcar axle broke near Tenth and Rangas. crowd moved the trailer aside and traffic resumed. Sheriff Bordge served Thanksgiving meals to county jail prisoners, while city jail inmates ate the usual fare.
A Garden City man reports western Kansas likely to receive a general rain though a large area of wheat is past saving after dry weather and strong winds. The mist yesterday and expected showers could aid crops where still salvageable.
Wheat rose on better cables and drought dampened gains. corn followed wheat higher with good outside buying as May shifts and Kansas City and Mississippi river prices noted. Provisions steadied with various beef, pork, and lard quotes. cattle and hog receipts cited along with regional market activity and minor local notices.
In Kansas news, Andy Hackney seeks 10 percent of the value of a well the district built for school use eighteen years ago. He claims compensation for the water used by district children, seeking $8840 in total. Also reported are a Parson’s brakeman killed during yard work, a paper mill cash bonus discussion in Emporia, and other local items.
The Sixth District Agricultural Association plans a winter meeting at the Los Angeles track around December 15 featuring top horses Flying Jit Hal Pointer and Alix. Officials aim to attract elite stables from California and beyond as fear of limited coast venues fades.
A New York Sun account recalls a Paris jewelry heist where a stranger duped a Parisian dealer by passing off an imitation diamond as a genuine gem. The jeweler sought opinions from experts and arranged a test, later discovering the stone was only a convincing copy after the buyer’s ruse. The receipt for an imitation item marked 17,000 francs sealed the fraud.
A garbled mix of ads and fragments mentions Torexs Steam Laundry adding new neck bands to shirts and references Hesing Coal Company at 110 West Sixth Street. The text also quivers with stray anecdotes, poems, and school scenes including a Middletown Record quotation about harmony, a Detroit Free Press joke, and various child voices. The overall piece reads like a cluttered 19th century newspaper page with notices, fiction excerpts, and product mentions.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.