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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1896
Page
7
The Topeka State Journal offers free notices of situations wanted on Saturdays and midweek, with word limits and deadlines. Advertisers may declare no obligation, inviting offers while excluding business or employment sectors. The paper promotes its daily local listings as the cheapest and best classified medium.
Average circulation for May, 1896, shows a pricing note of five cents per line or eleven cents per line for a week, reflecting telegraph style billing and reader reach in the period.
A partly legible sworn statement was presented to advertisers describing a proposed press project. The note references a high speed wet perfecting press and claims the capability to run multiple complete gapers per second, indicating claims of efficiency and improved output.
Fragmented OCR notes list multiple employment leads and missing details. Mentions include Mrs Alice Lewis address and a sewing circle to Mrs Meruer, plus Bishop Mulspangh posting and a federal housework job at 1007 Harrison.
In a comic tale Wiggles misses the noon wedding as his friend-engineer ferries him by locomotive to a surreal New York depot stage. The delay yields a wedding twist when Alford, once betrothed to Wiggles’s bride, is bowed into matrimony while Wiggles is accounted delayed by a staged escape. The engineer reveals himself as an old friend, and the crowd celebrates.
A fragment cites an 1840 Stat ford police regulation banning street lounging with fines and potential penalties. The garbled text references cheerful banter and a Chicago Record aside about words, money, and a curious cheese motif amid scattered phrases.
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