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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1897
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR reads like an ad layout notice for The State Journal edition pages. Mentions permanent home pages, readers, advertisements, and a touran style layout with telephone numbers and panel readers in a period newspaper format.
Partial weather report notes rain in Chicago and Kansas with afternoon and evening storms. Forecast calls for partly cloudy night with rain likely Sunday in eastern areas and a high forecast for Sunday in the southern region.
A long extract discusses recurring floods in the lower Mississippi valley, criticizing repeated expensive measures. It urges a focused program to give the river a swifter current by extending river jetties toward the source, using all river and flood funds for a single, permanent solution. It also notes Topeka and Topeka auditorium debates and mentions a Topeka meeting and a Minute Cough Cure endorsement.
The New York Sun criticizes lists of top Americans and argues history is not fixed. It notes Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Cooper, and others as cited, but warns future events may outshine past wars and imply America’s evolving role with Russia and the United States.
The New York World describes a line of forty four private homes and two clubs on Fifth Avenue from East Sixtieth to Seventy second street, summing wealth around 2.5 million. It traces a northward shift from Battery Park, past Washington Square, to today’s Millionaires Row amid London parallels and a history of affluent families shaping the city’s palatial fronts.
A formal address to liquor dealer members expresses gratitude and vows to strengthen the association by using all legitimate means to advance their interests. The speaker defends the trade against moralist attacks and pro prohibition advocates, criticizing opponents and urging continued organization.
A scrambled collection of aphorisms and quips on advice, ambition, vanity, and human foibles. It contrasts prudence with extravagance, notes the dangers of gossip, and mocks pretentious behavior through short, wry observations. The piece merges humor with moral reflections on self awareness and social conduct.
In Washington on April 2 Mr Pulitzer rents Mr John AL Logans horse to stay at Calumet Place. He plans a glass room on the rotunda for sun baths and will make it his home for some time.
A Chicago Evening Post reflection credits Mr. Ingalls with a remarkable transformation through association with journalists. The piece praises his temperate defense of Mrs. Fimons and criticizes hostile clergy while lauding the Sporting Editor’s balanced letter and overall calm reporting in the People’s Department.
A guest named Jamon Seller, a Singapore chip-repairer and builder, spoke at the Brown hotel en route to England after ten years in India. He described India's financial shift toward the gold standard, the impact on farmers, merchants, and British firms, and note the social strain on expatriate families and colonial trade.
A garbled mix of society names and international notes includes Mrs Potter Palmer, Arielle Hives-Clanler now Princess Troubetakoy, and references to Russian government funding. Also mentions theater figures Fanny Davenport, King of Siam, and Andalusian music for a Birmingham play. Neatly, it cites intellectual debate on America’s role and a Cornell professor’s tuberculous vaccine hopes amid a broader catalog of events.
A fragmentary text notes a Strand Magazine feature on Fridtjof Nansen with life period pictures. The interviewer Sherand sought access at a port view, offered $1.00, and left without a full interview as Nansen repudiated the piece and clarified the images were reproductions from Norwegian sources.
The article outlines Greece as highly populated with 3,187 per square mile, noting coastal proximity, language, and religion. It describes climate extremes, the king George I era with a $260,000 annual income, political structure, royal family ties, and a modern legal system plus a standing army totaling 24,470 troops.
Paris April 3 Work has begun on the new bridge over the Seine to connect the two parts of the Exposition. Contracts for public work in France require plans and detailed cost estimates with allowances for unforeseen expenses. Contractors bid by stating a percentage rebate from the estimated cost to undertake the work per the specifications.
Louisville April 3 The engagement of Mayor Todd of this city and Miss Helen Durkee of St Louis has been announced. The marriage will take place late this month Miss Durkee reputedly worth over half a million while Todd a well to do man. Todd in his forties and a bachelor, comes from Puritan stock and before election to mayor led a wholesale iron company in Louisville.
The Free Bath and Sanitary League opened the Martin B Madden bath at Thirty-ninth Street and Wentworth Avenue in Chicago. W. W. Sprazer will supervise the operation as the new bath becomes available to the public. Members attended the dedication with remarks on expanding bathing facilities, including integrating baths into public schools to serve all residents.
Theophile F. Lawczynski, a Russian Polish native and ex-attache, says from Milwaukee on April 3 that the czarist massacre in St. Petersburg killed 17 to 20 thousand and wounded 10 to 15 thousand. He attributes the tragedy to nihilist plots and bombs used during the unrest.
Philadelphia on April 7 Hooker T. Washington spoke to a large audience at the Friends Meeting home on Twelfth Street addressing plans to develop the colored race in the south. He highlighted the Christianstore Virginia industrial school as a path to self-reliance through hands on training and education.
Chicago April 3 Miss Mavel Beardsley sister of Aubrey Beardsley now in Chicago with Richard Mansfelt received a letter from her brother yesterday. The note, dated London March 1, says he is improving in health and likely in Bournemouth, plan to remain there for three weeks before a trip to Paris. His mother is with him.
Cambridge citizens plan a no-license jubilee marking ten years without a saloon. A large meeting at the Cambridge Y M C A advanced plans for April 4, May ? and 2 observances in schools halls and churches. Also notes American patent leadership and a testimonial about Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Home-seekers' excursions advertised via the Foxsland Route.
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