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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1896
Page
7
Historic notice outlines Topeka Kansas classified sections for help wanted situations vacant and real estate auctions. It promotes free Saturday publication limits and deadlines for ads, stressing equal opportunity and advertiser responsibility while promising wide local circulation and low rates.
A local notice outlines pricing for oversight and distribution of the May issue. It specifies a rate of five cents per line for print space and an 18 percent fee structure as applicable, with weekly and monthly options.
A garbled ad describes a Wen Perfecting press in Kansas praised as the handsomest and fastest, capable of printing two to three complete papers per second on an afternoon between Sunday and Monday, promising advertiser appeal and wide circulation.
On Tuesday September 28 a special train leaves Coffeyville at 7 30 a m and runs via Chetopa Pittsburg Fort Scott and Garnett to Topeka arriving 5 18 p m The notice also advertises laundered ladies shirt waists by Peerless to prevent fading.
In North Topeka a flood of visitors is noted as Miss Grace Gaylord of Beloit visits Miss Annie Holt and Mrs. L. W. Moulton returns from Perry. Local lumber dealers plan activity midweek. A parade entry by Cromwell and Jeffers from Osie side features Miss Cromwell driving a wagon. The rechnion honors include Mother Rickerdyke visiting Mr. and Mrs. Berry, with nursing praised for saving a life in wartime.
Bridgeton New Jersey reports Almina Johnson widow of J D Johnson, killed in the great meadow disaster near Atlantic City on July 30, accepts 34,000 from the railroad company for his death. She calls it a crust thing and turns the endorsed check over to the Second Presbyterian church. The church trustees accept the money. The couple, rich individuals with no children, shared an estate that reverted to Mrs Johnson on his death.
Silver traitors scarce as three electors drop from the middle of the road push and other signs of weakness appear. Doolittle Perkins Hill are named as electors who refuse to run for McKinley. Bromberger notes two electors backed out and names are withheld. Steinberger pledge to the Secretary of State, vacant seats to be filled by middle of the road committee. Butler’s refusal to recognize the Steinberger group dampens momentum.
A Sept 29 report from Clinton Iowa states Bahne Luecks on a Comanche county farm discovered paying gold deposits. An assay indicates about 12 the value per ton with ore from six to twenty five feet below the surface. A local gold find noted in a rural area. Eloper Shot His Girl's Uncle in Somerville Tennessee
Buffalo N Y Sept 53 A can has been fasted by the chairman and secretary of the People s party for a state convention in Syracuse on October 1 The convention is to nominate candidates for state officers and presidential elector
A Marseilles dispatch highlights a dire refugee crisis among Armenian escapees from Constantinople. Hundreds suffer hunger and homelessness, with only a small fraction able to pursue US or Argentine resettlement as charity efforts lag. The article condemns European indifference and notes potential for forming a strong Armenian colony if aid expands.
John Dillons birthday week includes the company presentation of A Model Husband at the Grand Opera House last night drawing a large crowd. Tonight they perform Wanted, the Parth and the manager notes the engagement runs through Thursday with repeats of A Model Husband. Dillon is 65 years old this week.
In St. Joseph Missouri on September 29 candidates on the regular Democratic ticket in the county repudiated the Gold Democrats endorsement. The Gold Democrats endorsed the silver county ticket but the meeting of silver candidates decided their support was not desired and their endorsement unacceptable. Independence of the silver camp sparks comment.
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