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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
7
Classified blur of rental offers lists furnished and unfurnished rooms near Madison and Topeka Ave. Mentions gas, utilities, and contact details, with multiple names and addresses. Includes dentist ad and housing notices. partially legible street names and phone hints.
Local No. 114 leaves five minutes early with limited trains 3 and 4 running twice weekly. The Santa Fe schedule adjusts routes to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Topeka with new arrival times and revised connections.
Fragmented report notes Medford becoming a key terminus for a southern rail corridor. It mentions earlier planning, revisions, and shifts of alignment with neighboring towns like Crowk and Hatt, detailing anticipated expenditures and construction timelines toward December. The piece references Hutchinsen and Sutherland and a push to rapid land clearance for the project.
Traveling Auditor A Bevier dies in Wichita after peritonitic illness. Remains return to Colby Wis for burial. Bevier served in the Rock Island era and left a daughter in Colby. Also reported Santa Fe lands troop transport contracts from Fort Grant and Fort Huachuca to Salt Lake City. A Kansas National Guard instruction at Fort Riley is announced with low fare for soldiers.
Ad text advertises a Kansas City and return fare of $2.00 via the Santa Fe Route. Mentions Pion Grip Celota and Genie 4s with inclusive price and valid dates. Includes reminder about Santa Fe Route and daily service notes.
In Topeka area items report residents traveling to Leavenworth Watrous NM and Silver Lake for meetings and visits. The Kaness Baptist convention sets dates October 12 to 16 in North Topeka. Local families relocate or send members to housekeeping in Park Street and Kansas City. The county Sunday School convention occurs October 3 and 2, with Roxana Becher Furusitic as principal instructor. A free silver meeting is announced for Silver Lake and Walnut Grove schoolhouse.
Wiliam Albro, cousin of Major McKinley, a prosperous farmer from Cotrlatd county, declares he cannot vote for McKinley and will support William Jennings Bryan. Albro recently moved from Nebraska after twenty years there and praises Bryan and Sewall as the best choice for farmers and voters. He states his family will not allow his vote to be influenced against Bryan.
Miss Liste Webb fainted at home after yawning excessively and collapsing. An ambulance responded from Lely, Dr. Seat treated her, and authorities noted the incident amid a broader civil service exam notice and a separate dynamite conspiracy trial coverage.
October 4 sale offers half rate round trip excursion on the Santa Fe Route to Kansas City from home road. Tickets good for return by November 15 and valid on any regular trains. Special fare applies to allowed customers with accompanying round trip.
A New Zealand coast report notes Trem Balty Cutten sighting an unfamiliar vessel near Queenstown harbor while await details on a torpedo gun and a ship arriving from Ban toy bay.
An early 20th century notice promotes daily return trips on five Santa Fe trains under a single round trip fare. Sales run October 1–10 with tickets valid for multiple journeys. The fragment mentions Boston financing and London shipment, with Peabody & Co of Boston connected to Boston financial interests.
The Committee of Fifteen convened to audit bills and report next meeting. They allowed about $1.50 for modest expenses. Members proposed various fates for the Dragon of 6 Ages including display at the old Exposition building, storage, wagon covers, or use as a band stand decoration.
Herald dispatch from Guayaquil reports a devastating city fire that began Monday at midnight and burned for 14 hours. It left about 74,000 people homeless and caused damages possibly over 52 million dollars. Food and water shortages worsen the crisis as authorities work to aid victims. An incendiary was reportedly caught and shot. In Chicago, Col. KH G. Ingersoll spoke at a McKinley event.
The Union Pacific offers a special one and one third fare round trip for travelers within 60 miles of Topeka for a Republican rally on Saturday October 20. Hon Foraker of Ohio will speak. Also note real estate sales by Foote and Ferguson. A 90 acre farm in section 5 township 14 range 17 was sold to W T Griffith for 1550 dollars.
The Union Pacific offers a special rate of one and one third fare for round trips from nearby areas to Topeka for a Republican rally on Saturday October 1st. Speaker JC Foraker of Ohio is billed to speak at the event.
The Courier Journal prints a Geneva dated editorial by Wattenon criticizing the Chicago convention as fake and asserts a single democratic hope in the nation. He denounces the Indianapolis platform and Buckner and Polinist as aligned with true Democratic principles.
W Rickman, editor of the Oxbuthe News, claims he was nominated by the Populist party for Ophome county but declines the Prohibition party’s nomination. He says it is impossible to run on a zealous plank and thanks the Prohibition but withdraws. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is recommended for coughs and colds.
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