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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1904
Page
5
A sprawling, older newspaper summary surveys Democratic and Republican signals in the lead up to the St Louis convention. It notes Parker and Hill faction tensions, endorsements, and fluctuating support, with references to New York papers, other states, and figures like Olney and Harris. It also touches on international notes about Port Rico and the Caribbean, and mentions Carnegie's vast charitable total.
A garbled stream of a party platform announces Judge Parker as the Democratic candidate. It argues for state rights, home rule, and resisting central authority, warning against federal governance overruling state interests and corporate power.
A jangling Kansas page combines debates on railroad monopolies and national policy with local humor. Items mention Minnesota Wisconsin trade, topeka circus, Hagieton fires, Chanute songs, a $12500 bank loan, a sock social in Eureka, autos in Ottawa, and local quips about editors, spinsters, and daily life across Osage and Jefferson counties.
Advertises Crystal Blend coffee at 26 cents a pound and promotes the store as the sole agency for Crystal Blend. Claims customers will find coffee of unusually good quality for the price. Emphasizes there is no other store with the same product.
We offer various grocery items with prices and promotions, including sugar, beans, dried fruits, coffee, and meats for Sunday. The ad promises the same old prices on rice, beans, dried fruits, and suggests visiting the store to see Sunday meat offerings.
A collage of aphorisms and social observations from Chicago News and Philadelphia Resort columns, mixing humor and moralizing snippets. Topics range from singing talent and marriage to debt, generosity, and everyday vignettes, with satirical quips on men, women, and social norms.
Washington reports C. 2. Jones of the American National Bank Kansas City arranged a $3,000,000 issue mainly with western banks through Blur & Co. and Third National of St. Louis took bonds via Jobes and Blair. Jobes earned about $59,000 in the transaction amid eastern speculation Kansas City gains on its growing financial prominence.
Due to illness in the superintendent's family and reduced staff the usual notices about lot care will not be mailed this spring. Lot owners who want their plots cared for this season should mail their written notification to D. C. Crane, superintendent.
In Washington April 22 the House committee on Indian affairs reported a substitute for a resolution about Dawes commission members and federal officers in Indian Territory. Lind defended the resolution, accusing guardians of Indians of forming corporations to loot wards. Curry of Kansas denied the Dawes commission’s involvement in townsites. The substitute passed 7 to 91 on a rising vote.
London dispatch reports the complete destruction of a Japanese column on the Yalu river, with no further details available. The brief item notes the claim received from Port Arthur via Central News, dated April 22 and 7 40 P M.
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