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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1894
Page
3
A long cluttered OCR of a Kansas shop advertisement lists groceries and hardware items including sugar, tea, coffee, dried fruits, crackers, pickles, sauces, and household goods. The fragment references local state items and notes broader regional news about Fort Scott, Wichita, Neodesha, and Leavenworth with mentions of a refinery, water works seizure, a tow factory, and local officers.
North Topeka notes sickness at J QA Payton’s home near the reform school and trips to Wichita for Mrs H A Chase. Dean Millspaugh preaches at Good Shepherd church at 3 pm. Jason Nichols leaves for Lanivinna for the sugar mak eséaren cy. KK Cubbison to address the Republican club during the campaign. Woman’s Republican club members to give five minute talks on Why I am a Republican. Vincet to lecture on That Boy's Sister at the Laptist church on Wednesday October 15, tickets 25c. Mrs Helen Moses to Richmond Va for the national missionary convention of the Carcistian churches. Republican club meeting to feature Thomas H Bain and Safford. George Stausteid’s daughter to return home from Boston for health. New Union Pacific time cars took effect. day train now earlier causing travel issues for weekday passengers.
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison and party toured Indiana by Vandalia rail line stopping at Evansville Greencastle and Brazil. Crowds approaching thousands greeted him as he urged thinking over public questions and national duty while recounting campaign plans and policies.
A fragment from a public meeting recounts a laborer’s tariff grievance. He says the push to smash the tariff promised lower prices but left workers with little after unions and bosses shared profits. The text mentions General Harrison in Terre Haute and a chaotic scene with crowds, amid mixed garbled notes and a marriage certificate anecdote.
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