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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1897
Page
7
A garbled Topeka State Journal classified section offers job ads and misc notices. It lists opportunities A. J. Wanted for nursing travel, barbers and house helpers, sales canvassers, and general labor with varying pay. Advertisers are warned about timing and formatting rules for notices and promises cheap circulation.
A jumble of classified lines offers loans on pianos typewriters bicycles watches and city property with rates around six percent. Also listed are piano tuning voice and piano instruction at Belvoir Potwin Place Topeka and brick and paving material services with notes on construction details and contact points.
Notice states a meeting of the board of supervisors of elections for Topeka will occur at the commissioner of elections office on Kansas Avenue Saturday October 28 at 9 a m to tabulate remuneration of voters in voting precincts and to transact such other business as comes before the board by order of Commissioner of Elections Yount.
Notice from the Commissioner of Elections of Topeka announcing the closing of voter registration books for the city. Books will close Friday evening October 28 at 5 p.m. and reopen after the election to be held Tuesday November 7. T. Yount, Commissioner of Elections.
Office of Commissioner announces registration books for Topeka voting precincts will be open at the office of the commissioner of elections from 7 o clock p m until 9 o clock p m on weekdays through Friday including holiday, for election registration.
The Kansas secretary of state issues a call for bids on plastering and cornicing of the state capitol foundation in Topeka. Plans and specifications available from the state house architect. bids due November 17 with certified checks and bond requirements.
An ordinance relating to apportioning and levying special assessments on all lots tracts and ground in Drain District Number Three in Topeka to cover drain construction costs. It details the assessment of specific lots in Andersons Addition Millview etc and sets annual installments with 6 percent interest, redeemable by payment to city clerk within 30 days of bond issuance or after last installment. The ordinance becomes effective upon publication and prescribes collection by the city clerk through Shawnee County.
An industrious Bridget cleans a muddy bicycle in the hall using paraffin and her broom as she jokes with Thomas the cat and the mistress. The scene shifts to tension over the machine’s care with Harry defending proper handling while the cat and audience react. The piece ends with a note on a different historical sign of kindness and a fragment about Miss Fortnick and Mr Ricketts.
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