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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1897
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal announces free Situations Wanted ads on Saturday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Ads up to five lines thirty five words, by 10 am Saturday and 1 pm Wednesday due for midweek runs. Advertisers incur no obligation and the paper promotes low cost local classifieds.
Office of the Mayor Topeka Kansas announces a special council meeting on September 25 to hear complaints and assess or confirm valuations and taxes for Drain District No 3. The session reviews appraiser reports and the fairness of the proposed assessments, with the city clerk's office on file. Witness the city seal.
Proposals will be received at the Kansas Secretary of State in Topeka until 2 oclock noon September 34 for double doors at the north end south entrance of the Capitol Building. Plans and specifications on file in State House Office from September Tat. Bidders must accompany bids with a certified check of five percent of the contract amount. The state may forfeit if the bidder fails to enter into contract and provide a faithful performance bond within ten days after award.
Sealed proposals are invited for erecting and completing a building for idiotic and imbecile youth at Winfield Cowley county Kansas. Bids due by noon September 1891 with plans available after August 1867 at state house architect and Kansas City superintendent offices. Bonds required. eight hour work days. bids to Topeka board secretary W Z Brown.
Mrs E J Yohey, demented and frail, left her father Clark Wilson at 211 Twist Avenue Oakland at 4 last Saturday. A search party scoured the neighborhood Saturday night and Sunday. She wore a dark calico dress and a girl sunbonnet. last seen near the starchtory and once on Benet Fourth Street. Relatives fear an accident may have befallen her. she was released from an asylum last June after a prior stay.
Chattanooga reports a surge in Southern industry with high demand and rising prices. New ventures include an Aberdeen Mississippi electric plant, a $200,000 Hayden Cigarette Machine outfit in Richmond, a Montgomery Electric Light and Water firm, a Timps on Brown Coal venture in Tex, a Jacksonville pottery plant, a $50,000 Lynchburg Lumber and Grain mill, and an Altoma Oil and Gas company in Algoma West Virginia. Spinning mills planned for Durham North Carolina and Red Bluffs near Bennettsville South Carolina, plus woodworking plants in Cordele Georgia Meridian Mississippi Swannanoa South Carolina Lynchburg Tennessee Roanoke and Lock Haven West Virginia.
The first session of the silver campmeeting will convene Wednesday September 15 at the fair grounds with Allen G Thurman as chairman. Speakers include Charles B Spahr New York John Clark Bidpath Boston David DeArmond Butler Mo General A J Warner W Bryan and Harrace J Chapman the Democratic candidate for governor. The event runs through September 22 under the American Bimetallic Union.
Baltimore reporters detail the Maryland Republican state convention where William T. Malate’s mayoral bid led to a large vote. City leaders debate placing colored men on the legislative ticket, with proposals to name one in each district, while county leaders oppose the plan fearing harm to Republican prospects.
Berlin reports a prince from a ruling German family was placed in an insane asylum. He reportedly bought estates abroad and ran debts far beyond his property value. The family refused to honor drafts totaling large sums and sought confinement at the Maison de Sante in Schoenberg.
A prospective Alaska mining venture promotes a chartered steamship and transport network to the Klondike, with extensive capital and a long list of named investors. It outlines a general trading and mercantile focus, plans to control steamers, and aims for rapid profits through mining claims, supply stores, and transportation. The appeal emphasizes opportunity, mutual profit, and early field presence.
The American Newspaper Directory is the recognized authority among advertisers and is to newspaper circulations what Dun and Bradstreet is to mercantile ratings. It has stood for 29 years and offers $100.00 for proof that its statements of newspaper circulations are incorrect.
The State Journal asserts it has the largest daily circulation in Topeka Shawnee County and the First Congressional District based on signed statements for the first six months of 1897. The American Newspaper Directory data, to be issued September 1 1897, is cited as conclusive against postage claims.
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