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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1897
Page
4
The Topeka Daily State Journal reports its first quarter wartime circulation exceeds all prior records. The Topeka State Journal notes an unprecedented rise in readership during the period, signaling strong public engagement with war coverage.
The Atare Journal and The Stacy Journal are described with circulation hints and a large newspaper building in Kansas. It details presses, front layout, corner location at Kan Avenue and Elgin street, and a Perfecting printing press on the north floor with a full sidewalk view.
Reverend Talmage plans an early Topeka lecture to entertain yet urge donations for India famine and plague victims. He emphasizes aiding local Topeka needy first, noting widespread destitution in New York and British India. He argues Americans should start charity at home before global appeals.
The Greeley Colony in Colorado shows striking contrast to Fourier experiments, thriving on self reliance and cooperative ideals. Capital funded canals and enterprises, yet stores and banks remained scarce. prosperity rested on public spirit and industrial independence within a social equality framework.
Fragmentary OCR text describes a figure linked to occult cults and mania, naming a Mare Carellat and fictional groups. The prose hints at magical or supernatural factions, grand conspiracies, and a struggle against perceived evil influencing earth's legions, without coherent, verifiable events.
Meher J. Sayers famed composer of Ta-Ta-ta Room te-ay is in St. Louis for the new musical Merce The Good Mr Feat. He discusses origin of the hit song during rehearsals with Rich Harris and the Walnut Street Theatre company.
A collage of remarks and snippets from newspapers recounts a disputed authorship of a song "Ta-ra-ra" and its spread from London to America. It quotes critiques on war coverage, social views, and light humor, noting publication claims and varied opinions across multiple papers.
The Cult of Marat is the fashionable movement in Paris. Debats notes a copy of the works sold for 1000 shanes and the Paris municipal council plans a Marat statue in a public square. The old sculpture in the Hotel de Ville was moved after Puritan protests, and officials seek a balanced solution with Charlotte Corday’s statue as a counterpoint.
A garbled Boston letter recounts John Brown of Csawato and an eventful January journey with Peter Browne and Jeli Gootman. It describes a Wander and chase in Plymouth woods, then surviving fatigue and hunger, concluding with distant moral reflections and misread fragments about Pilgrim Fathers books and idle quotes from the Atchison Globe.
At a Dubuque Congregational meeting the treatment of Dr Brown, central figure in a San Francisco scandal, was debated. The conference tabled a California church's request to rescind his fellowship, but issued him a dismissal letter. He has accepted a call to a Congregational church in Chicago.
The article lists foods with claimed brain and nerve benefits. Blanched almonds and walnuts are praised as nerve foods, while grapes, tomatoes, apples, prunes, and citrus items are noted for varying effects on heat, waste, and liver health. Dried fruits are cautioned for liver patients, and cold weather use of lemons and tomatoes is discouraged.
In Lincoln Nebraska on a reform club evening Bryan mocks Cleveland for attacking Republicans over protectionism and praising Democrats who backed McKinley. He faulted Cleveland’s war talk against Chicago ticket supporters and warned of misreads in party loyalties amid the 7 million Democrats who once idolized him.
A damaged historic Trinity Church in New York near Wall Street shows severe structural failure from subsidence and cracking. Many pews and altar railings are damaged, and the building may be abandoned despite renewed efforts to stabilize. The church, rebuilt after earlier fires and as old as 1758, sits amid a reshaped southern Manhattan landscape with leases and property issues tied to market needs.
The Union League Club of New York hosted a lavish reception for President McKinley and Vice President Hob art last evening. Over 1,000 invitations were issued and many guests from the diplomatic corps and New York army navy officials attended. supper followed in the main room while the president and party were served in a separate sleeve.
In Topeka several brief notices report people traveling and visiting, moves and illness. W Blackburn is very ill with consumption at 1416 Logan. George Rush returns to Lawrence after bridge work. Sheriff Heath and wife visit Mrs Potrarch at Adams house. A horse was stolen from John Broxsom on Pole Street. burglars took 1 00 but morning signs suggested a false alarm. Funeral for Jesse Kister drew large crowds at Quincy Street residence with multiple lodge members in attendance.
Col Jesse E. Peyton known as the feather of centennials dies at his home in Haddonfield New Jersey He was born in 1835 in Mountainville Kentucky and moved to Philadelphia to enter the wholesale dry goods trade He aided Union causes during the Civil War and helped finance Kentucky regiments He championed the 1876 centennial exposition in Philadelphia and proposed related projects A widow and three children survive him The State Journal urges subscription
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