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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1895
Page
8
An OCR fragment from The Star Grocery advertises dry salt meat and sugar cured hams and bacon by the pound with prices and brand notes. It mentions Armont's Gold Band Breakfast Bacon and a guarantee on meat quality, though the text is partially garbled.
The West Side Gun Club once held the state team championship and was a premier western organization but now faces a critical future. With only a few dependable members, the club's pay-for-dues model, target costs, and lack of facilities threaten its survival unless radical changes occur. Also recapped are Chanute bicycle race results and a football defeat of Midland College by Rock Chalk at Lawrence.
The report details a Midland course game where Io U won the toss and the Kansas State team led 12-0 at halftime, finishing 28-0. It notes lineups, substitutions, and mentions Fair, last year’s Nebraska fullback, was injured. Also covered are local shooting club results, a Topeka trot entry, Winfield football plans, Modern Woodmen events, and a Union Pacific encampment trip to Salina.
In a letter to the Sta Journal, E Jameson, secretary of the Million Club, says reports he favored free writeups in Leavenworth and Kansas City papers are inaccurate. He claims these papers would carry two papers and half column notices about Kansas men, with funds spent impartially across Kansas papers. He argues for newspaper advertising but opposes display ads in eastern papers. The State Journal supports spending in Kansas papers fairly and cautions against favoritism.
Governor Morrill faced a $100 judgment in Justice Parry's court as a stockholder in the state fair association. An execution was marked unsatisfied since no property could be found in the county and the governor refused to pay. C O Osborn for H W Cheney seeks recovery of $185 as the association's debts.
Two officers on Harrison Street at 1 am heard racing on the block. Sandy Jordan and a black man led rival rigs with their partners as crowds watched. The chase ended with Sandy claiming the horse was running away and the horse a single footer. the stake noted as five dollars.
Rev W L Byers resigns after three years as pastor of the North Congregational Church in Topeka and will become pastor of the First Congregational church at Keokuk Iowa. He will preach his farewell sermon this Sunday. Mrs Byers, now visiting in Ohio, will not return. He also resigns as president of the Topeka Congregational Union at the upcoming meeting.
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