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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1901
Page
14
Reader notices show a flood of wanted ads, rental listings, sale items, employment requests, and lost and found items. Names like WANTED and FOR RENT appear with addresses and brief descriptions, along with requests for help, books, cattle, and household goods. The page reads as a dense, era-specific classified collage of mid century urban life.
Fragmented OCR text shows a chaotic business note about market cash, a company address in New York, and a Lake Erie context. It hints at stock company organization and potential private interests. Readable specifics are sparse, but the piece centers on a stalled plan and local corporate maneuvering.
Property listing describes cottages with well water and sewer connections, near Channder and Sol between streets. Details include price terms, mortgage style payments, and various parcels with improvements such as coal or gas heat and outbuildings. Contact C Stephens on Kansas Avenue or at Elgpy's for full terms.
Scott and Scott offer pasture and land parcels near a railroad town with prices around 50 per acre and 26 per acre. Listings describe near Rock Island and Hook Island stations, rivers and water sources, center state location, and investment potential. Contact 615 Kansas Ave Topeka Kansas for details.
Sale listing for multiple properties and farms including a two and a half room cottage near pavement and town blocks. Notes on improvements such as siding, windows, painted house, fruit trees, and fences. Includes farm parcels with 200 acres and various improvements and yields. Contact Roudebush via phone for details and pricing.
For sale by Benedict and Co. at 601 Kansas Avenue a complete residence is offered with heating and plumbing details unclear from the OCR. The ad references a price and terms but text is garbled. indicates a full home for sale with unspecified mortgage or financing options and location near existing structures.
An old classified notice describes multiple properties for sale near Topeka including a timbered farm with living water, a two room frame house with fence and corrals, 12 miles east of Topeka, plus brick business property and a city rent dwelling. Terms offered with cash and balance to suit. Exchange sought for Eastern California property. SIs and Broadwas listed as contacts.
The ad promotes W. J. Jones & Son at 320 Kansas Ave offering in house furnishings new and second hand. It invites customers to bring home goods and promised to buy or exchange them, stressing a homey, practical shopping appeal.
Describes numerous houses and lots for sale in Topeka and Allen County areas. Notes include modern water systems, attics, barns, cisterns, and street details. Mentions 3 to 6 room homes, parlor rooms, kitchens with cistern water, sewer connections, and varying lot sizes. Several properties emphasize proximity to streets like Morris Avenue and N Topeka with multiple bids possible.
Readable text fragment notes J. D. Miller and Co. at Kansas Avenue and Paine with unclear surrounding context. No dates or actions are documented. The item appears to be a damaged public notice or business reference missing details.
Public notice advertises city and rural lands for sale with vague location hints and scattered descriptors. The fragmentary text mentions Auburn Wanestaivert Goss Boa sealsese and a 10th street area alongside front and stone features, but details are unclear.
Property listings from Rodgers Davis & Co at 110 West Sixth Street describe multiple parcels and dwellings. Several eight to ten line items note 4 room wells, barn, 0 acres of fertile land, streetcar line frontage, cottage blocks, building lots on Logan and Harrison streets, brick and bricklike dwellings with city water, pavement and near Auburnds. Some entries include near Ashburnds and Pine Street. agents listed RG Vis & Co. at Sixth Street.
A cluttered classified page lists real estate for sale and rent near 521 W. South St, with mentions of modern residences, baths, kitchens, and outbuildings. Also advertised are farm stock, hog pens, rental inquiries, and numerous secondhand goods including stoves, collars, sewing items, and household wares from Warren and Chivers, plus equipment and services.
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