State Journal Defyettion Topeka Weekly Advertiser 10 Cents
The State Journal Defyettion prints notices and local items from Topeka and suburbs. It covers advertisements, building address, and carriage routes, with telephones listed for the Topeka paper and offices in Kansas Avenue near Eighth. It mentions Beatrice Harrader, Maria Audubon, and various historical and biographical notes while noting journalistic claims about yellow fever germ discoveries and other foreign reports.
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Topeka
Hansas
Topeks State Joerns
Kansas Avenue
Eighth
Telefhones
Bell
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Weather Indications for Chkaco on Sept 14
Local forecast notes a cool trend with showers likely. Brisk southern winds expected. cooler conditions Wednesday.
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Kansas
Sleepers in Topeka During Fall Festival Stimuli Comfort Plan
Action taken to provide sleeping quarters for the festival vigil seems insufficient with 1801 people potentially roaming streets at night. Calls for a public comfort bureau, an active Fifteen Committee reform, and immediate opening of registration books at accessible prominent locations to prevent neglect of shelter needs.
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Bureau of Pubic Comfort
Piome
Financial recovery signals stable expansion, Clews asserts
Henry Clews argues that America is the breathing space for crops and is poised to ship gold to Europe as trade rebounds. He notes bank lending at peak levels, prices down, and a broad commercial expansion driven by manufactured demand, with population growth and construction easing past depressions.
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America
Europe
Henry Clews
England
Clews
Aneust
New York City
Wim
Nalues
Cleve
Bormel
Rogers
Chile
Atchison Globe Chronicle of Old Fashioned Views
A fragmented Atchison piece contrasts old fashion social rules with modern behavior. It notes opinions on chaperones, modesty, trades versus oppression, a recent old fashioned wedding, and humorous takes on rural life and the Rubberneck class and the value of self reliance in boys.
President McKinley Departs Somerset with Large Crowd
A large crowd gathers at the Endsly Residence in Somerset Pennsylvania to bid President McKinley and Mrs McKinley farewell as they leave in a private car train bound for Washington. Attending are Attorney General McKenna and Miss Mabel McKinney. The party waves and bows as the train departs.
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Somerset
Endsly
Mee Risley
Ma Bel McKinley
Turriege
Abner Mo~ Kinley
McKinley
McKenna
Afiss
Mabel McKinney
Kentucky
Washington
Stranger Tossed 250000 Footstool In Mexican Train Theft
A man named Pedro Berna Trueba of Cedral Mexico arrived in Laredo to claim a bag containing 250000 in valuables used as a footstool aboard a Mexican Central train. He reportedly mistook a stranger for a servant and handed him the bag by the station, later discovering the error and facing theft charges. The item belonged to Trueba’s hacienda De Vane.
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Laredo
Tex
Pedro Barpena Trueba
Cedral
Mexico
Truebans
Oaline
de Vane An
San Luis Potest
Vanegas
Servanta Fm
Mulvane backs Curtis for re election in Fourth District
I W Moore of Marion endorses Charlie Curtis for another term in Congress and rejects a run in the First. He cites Curtis as indefatigable and well wired in Washington. J W Moore of Marion plans to seek the Fourth District nomination, arguing Marion is reliably Republican and deserves the honor. Multiple candidates vie across the district with B H Tracy, J M Miller, Bent Murdock, and G H Lamb named in various counties.
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I. W. Moore
Marion
Piret
Dave Mulvane
Journal
Iam
Chariie Curtis
Beleve
Mulvane
Mr. Mulvane
Curtis
Washington
Charlie Curtis
J. W. Moore
Marton
The
Butler
Greenwood
Woodson
Coffey
Lyon
Osage
Wahatinsee
Mortis
Pottawateme
Chases
Mr. Moore
Journal Reporter
Marion County
Morrill
Fivestock
Pottawatomie
B. H. Tracy
Mego
Morris
J. M. Miller
Council Grove
Bent Murdock
Woodgon
G. H. Lamb
Leon County
W. A. White
Mangled by a bear Tolman near Rock Creek
Alexander Tolman of Cassia county Idaho was mauled by a silver tip bear near Rock Creek. After fending off the bear with a gunshot he was knocked unconscious and left with severe wounds to the neck shoulder thigh and leg. He dragged to safety and is under care with doubtful recovery.
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Idaho
Pocatelllo
Taaho
Alexander Tolman
Cassia County
Rock Creek
Tolman
German couple forced to leave United States
Washington reports that Karl Kreuger and his wife, Germans who emigrated within the past year, were publicly charged by Kossuth county Iowa officials. The Treasury investigated and confirmed the charges. They will be sent back to Germany at the expense of the immigration fund as they became public charges within a year after arrival.
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Washington
State Department
Treasury
Why a Young Woman Married General Longstreet
A Gainesville woman writes to The Journal explaining her choice to wed General Longstreet out of love and principle. She praises his honor, argues marriage should be based on inner merit, and recounts her own efforts to prove herself worthy through education and work in Notre Dame Baltimore.
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New York
James Longstreet
Gainesville
Gasuse
General Longstreet
Mr Halter
Crusher
Mar- Fine
Notre Dame
Baltimore
Georgia
Longetever
Three Girls on a Lark Runaway and a Train Jumper
Sept 14 Newark court hears case of Isa Howell a 12 year old from Mannington W Va and two girls tied to Gerry Society agents Lillian Boyd claims to be a champion train jumper while the 19 year old in man’s clothes identifies as Lie BE Buck Boyd Isa ran away from home amid alleged abuse and was taken for care by the Gerry Society while Mrs Leo Loyal aided by keeping Isa in Newark's Mizoli Music Hall region.
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New York
Agenta
Gerry Society
Yorkville Court
Lie BE
Buck Boyd
Ina Howell
Richard Howell
Mannington
W. Va
Lillian Boyd
Howell
Isa
Leo Loyal
Salem Wire Nail Company Closes Plants for Two Years
The Salem Wire Nail Company shut its Findlay factory and Salem plant for two years after agreeing with national manufacturers to curtail output. About 400 workers lose jobs as mills in nearby New Castle Pa join the same arrangement to stabilize production and prices. In Bar Harbor Me a public meeting at the Marlboro hotel supported establishing a hospital with a committee led by J Kennedy to oversee the legal steps.
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Bar Harbor
Marlboro Hotel
Ban Harbor
J. & Kennedy
Jonas
Curtain Department Offers New Curtains This Week
Curtain department invites shoppers to tone rooms before the fall estival with new curtain styles. Entirely new scenes are being shown as the department opens many fresh options priced at 1.50 and 2.00 per curtain.
New Curtains Described in Ecru Net with Lace Trim
The advertisement highlights new curtains crafted from ecru net, featuring trims of Platt Valenciennes or Russian lace and inserting.
White Net Curtains with Oriental Lace and Embroidery
Advertisement notes white net curtains trimmed with lace and inserting. It promotes inexpensive showy curtains with listings for tambour Swiss fabrics at various prices including 20, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 35 cents per yard.
Great Bargains in Quilts This Week
A special sale offers quilts at reduced prices for a short time likely lasting only two days. The notice aims to attract customers with limited quantities and emphasizes value in a local business sale.
Satin Toilet Bed Quilts Offer
Satin Toilet Bed Quilts, already hemmed with new style borders and Dresden patterns in extra large size. A work of art and beauty priced at $2.50 each while supplies last, originally $3.50.
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Dresden
The New Neck and Sleeve Rufflings Arrival
The New Neck and Sleeve Rufflings have arrived in a great array of color combinations including Black and Red Hellotrope and Black Black and Pink Black and Blue Nile Green and White Black and Cream and plain colors.
50 Ladies' 26 inch Gloria Silk Handles Display Item
A catalog style item offers 50 ladies' 26 inch Gloria Silk canes with natural wood handles and steel rods. Each piece features sterling silver trimming and is promoted as a very special offering.
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Gloria
Leather Belt Sale At Half Price List Fragment
Fragmentary advertisement lists leather belts at half price and various sewing notions including hair curlers darning cotton skirts hooks and eyes shop strings and a dozen other items with unclear quantities or spellings.
Cigarette Girls Concert in New Irving Hall
East side workers joined a concert to raise funds for a cooperative cigarette factory. Performers wore self designed costumes with Yiddish songs and piano numbers plus a speech on labor unity. A syndicate offered jobs to strikers if they did not form the cooperative, fostering uncertainty about the plan.
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New York
East Side
New Irving Hall
Shiek
Helnys Avian’ Dimny
Colm
Morris Rosenfeld
B. Feigenbaum
Westinghouse Wins London Electric Plant Contract
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing reports from its European branch the Metropolitan Electrical Supply company awarded a large London electric lighting plant contract. The multi phase system uses Tesla patents owned in England by Westinghouse. The deal is said to total 350000 to 400000 dollars, with all apparatus manufactured at East Pittsburgh works.
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New York
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Metropolitan Electrical Supply Company
London
England
Westinghouse Company
East Pittsburg
Governor Hastings Angrily Halts Capitol Plans
Harrispore Sept 14 The commission in charge of a 450000 state capitol project clashed with Governor Hastings as they rejected all expert plans and asked for new designs. The governor, displeased, withdrew from the meeting and may resign from the commission. Springfield Sept 14 Historic Tavern to Be Torn Down The old Par von Tavern on Sta Court street, likely the town’s second oldest, will be razed next week for a new block. It once sheltered George Washington, with the tavern named after Landford Zenas Parsons before the Revolutionary War.
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Harrispore
Hastings
Springfield
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