The State Journal Parly edition preview
The State Journal Parly edition announces weekly home delivery for ten cents weekly or annual rates to Topeka and suburbs and Kan e253 towns. It lists circulation details, office addresses, and contact numbers for the business office and reporters room.
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Topeka
Siste Journal
Saress Avenue
Eighth
Bett
New York
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Alex
Weather Indications for Chicago and Kansas City
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with cooler, northerly winds. Indications point to possible fog or light showers and a generally unsettled pattern across the region.
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Chicago
Kansas
Brown University and Dr Andrews Crisis Over Dismissal
The article defends Dr E T Andrews whose resignation as Brown University president sparks criticism of the university corporation. It cites editorials from the Chicago Times Herald Springfield Republican and other papers, arguing the issue centers on free speech and money policy, not personal failings, and affirms Americans’ belief in fair play and constitutional rights.
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Atlanta Constitutien
Corporation of
Brown University
ET. Aedrews
Andrews
Brown University Enguys Andey le
insOruion
Andriws
Tte
Corporation
Bnt
Chicago Times-Herald
University Corporation
Save the Times-Fernid
Dequesta Ifts
Reo
Wttle
Chicago
Sprinefeld Republican
Springfeld
Welch
Andrewe
Repblican
Pune
New England
Beel Globe
Bold Democrata
Americas
Neels
E. Benjamin
Hopor
GMI
Aoe
Bownd
Bright Bits by Boys and Children’s Quips
A collage of children and adults quipping about culture, education, and daily life from 19th century papers. Jokes touch on foreigners, schooling, civil service exams, family milestones, and local occupations framed as light for readers. Distinct voices include a pupil from Puck magazine and anecdotes from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh papers.
Burns Citizen and Local Notes From The Frontier
A collection of short items and remarks from Burns including praise for the Citizen, a note on a chair for a subscription, a humorous aside about L A Henry and Ad Swayse, a cow lost and recovered from a well, and a Syracuse Journal praise of a young woman in farm life. Also mention of local jokes about office visitors and a Hemjomon Sentinel aside.
Notable Figures and Curious Anecdotes From Far and Wide
A montage of brief notices mentions Lord Woltzkey’s fading command due to stomach cancer, Parisian beauty Marcelle Berenger shifting to American artists, and Wm Dean Howells’s uncle a San Francisco physician. It notes Prof Todd’s Amherst honor, Japan’s imperial gifts, and remarks on Booker T. Washington and Prof Mommsen. It ends with a Tennessee senator’s fondness for 20-year-old whiskey observed on his deathbed.
Pan jokes and social mores in Atchison Globe satire
A fragment from the Atchison Globe lampoons excuses, authority myths, and social pretensions. It mocks scholastic questions, dating AT shells, and a girl’s travel plans to Alaska while hinting at gendered judgments and humor about farmers wives.
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GLOBE
Atchison Globe
Lady Jessica Sikes in Financial Suit Withdrawn
London Aug 3 Herbert Sanguinet sued Lady Jessica Sikes for obtaining 5300 pounds by talea pretenses and 20 shares, but the Marlborough court withdrew the case after explanations emerged. Sir Tatton Sikes, her husband, offered to meet all liabilities, citing broker communication gaps.
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London
Herbert Sanguinet
Jessica
Sikes
Tatton Sikes
Yorkshire
Marlborough
Sir Tatton
Marcus Beresford
Baron Tirsch
Lord Beresford
la Flecht
Enchanted Mesa in New Mexico Yields No Evidence of Inhabitants
An Aug 3 report from Albuquerque describes Mesa Encantada as a irregular sandstone bluff rising 50 feet with a 2000 foot length and a 700 foot width at the top. Despite ascent by Libbey, later climbers, and careful search, no pottery, markings, or signs of former human habitation were found. Only mountain rats, swallows, and small birds inhabit the summit, with insects and few plants.
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Albuquerque, N. M
Mesa Encantada
Libbey
Vpasion
William Libbey
Princeton
Mesa
Enrameda
Gordon Pesce
Albuqurque
Matthias Knapp
Oakland
Sereame
Camon
Fred Grant and Chinese Mission Inquiry
New York Aug 2 Cpl Fred Grant recently resigned from the pulley board and was asked if he is a candidate for the American ministry to China He said he does not think the president has considered his name and noted no offer has been made Grant plans to stay in the city for several months and is glad to be out of the pollen department
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United States
Puck
Billy Wiggins
Tomi
Landisdies
Khan
Johnny
Mike Kate
George
Trumpet
Hooley
Les
Oxford
Poley
Messenger
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Allegheny
Pillsburs Chronicle-Telegraph
Fred Grant
New York
China
Cpl
Grant
Cal
Grant Sai
Indemnity Paid Over Deaths of Three Italians
Washington reports the state department paid 36.00 to Count Vinel Italy’s charge here as indemnity for the mob killing of three Italians near Hanenville Louisiana. The victims were Lorenzo Faldinho, Salvatore Arena, and Giuseppe Venture who were taken from jail and lynched about a year ago. One Minute Cough Cure advertised next.
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Washington
State Department
Vinel
Lorenzo Faldinnh
Vatore Arena
Guizeppe Venture
Hanenville
Andrews Named President of New Popular College
Providence. HL Aug President RB Bensmin Andrews resigns Brown University post to lead a new popular college founded by journalist John Hrisben Walker. The plan aims to educate masses with free study, no tuition, and an advisory board of ten scholars, opening in September.
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Providence
Bensmin Andrews
Hrowm University
Andrews
New College
John Hrisben Walker
Walker
New York
Cosmopolitan
New England
East
Wiliam J. Bryan
Hudson
Brown
New University
Nde
Efsen
Itme
Breber
Moonshiner Gang Attack Ends in Death Near Conrad
Aug. 3 Huntsville reports a band of moonshiners attacked Frank Simmons in his home near Conrad, 20 miles north of the city. Leader Dudley Johnson was killed as shots pierced the door. Johnson lay dead in the woods next morning. Coroner’s jury convened amid fear of testimony by moonshiners. sheriff dispatched to the scene.
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Huntsville
Aim
Frank Simmons
Conrad
Thil City
Dudley Johnson
Johnson
Simmons Fred
Lettler
Strymons
Hone
Simmons
Sinthians Justitiatte
Sher- HY
Big Electric Consolidation in Pueblo City
Aug 2 Pueblo reports a planned consolidation of all city electric interests by Aug 5 with completion expected. Manager John F. Vail will lead the merged system including the street railway, city power grid, and three electric test plants.
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Electrc
Pueblo
Pinire
John F. Vail
Cheap Rail Rates For Chicago And St Louis Travel
The Thien Pacific offers cheap tickets to Chicago from ten to sixty dollars and to St Louis from seven forty, valid on multiple July and August dates with proportional fares to eastern points. Contact F A Lewis, City Ticket Agent, 625 Kansas Ave, or J J Polton, Depot Agent. Also promotes De Witt’s Little Early Risers for liver and headache relief. G W Stansfield, 632 Kansas Ave. Santa Fe Route sells excursion tickets to Nashville for the exposition.
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Thien Pacific
Chicago
F. A. Lewis
Kansas Avenue
J. J &. Polton
Nashville
Tenn
Return
de Witt's
Barly Eisers
G. W. StansGeld
Navy Secretary Eyes Government Armor Plant Plan
New York Aug 2 Secretary of the Navy John D Long aboard the Dolphin off Tompkinsville discussed armor production. He questioned $450 per ton as excessive and floated the idea of the government building its own armor plant, saying Congress may not allow more than $100 per ton for new ship armor and a formal report via Colonel Montgomery to Congress.
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New York
Dolphin
Tompkinsville
S. 1
Uywm
Montgomery Shard
North Atlantic
Secretary of the Navy
Congress
Carnegies
Joris
Navy Department
Reverend Samuel Small Considers Dover Home Plans
Reverend Samuel Small the evangelist plans to settle in Dover Delaware and has begun negotiating to buy the former Thomas W Wilson residence. He will lecture at Cambridge Union camp and discuss temperance while also pursuing a sanitarium project and a home for orphans on 40 or 50 acres with small eight child buildings. Orphans would later receive small gardens and prizes for superior crops.
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Dover
Del
Samuel Small
Thomas W. Wilson
Philadelphia
Small
Cambridge Union Camp
Princeton University Faces Saloon License Renewal
Grover Cleveland helped Princeton University by signing a license petition to keep a saloon open whose license expired May first. Twelve signatures, including Rev Me Shmvlds and several professors, spurred a shift toward renewing the permit amid local debate over prohibition versus licensing.
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Grover Cleveland
Princeton University
Cleveland
Princeton Inn
Visiing Friends of the University
Me. Shmvlds
Ruckwysod
Marquand
Scott
Charles McMillan
Whitelaw Keld Exempt Under New Tariff Rules
New York customs officials scrutinized passengers on the St Paul arrival, noting some carried personal belongings valued beyond the duty-free limit. Among those examined were Whitenwield’s party with numerous tracks and eels, Mrs Reid’s $5,000 dress, Hingman the theater manager, Mrs Hayman, Mayer the actor, and Stickney the magnate, with total duties around $4,000 collected on personal effects.
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New York
Burgage
Passearx
St. Paul
Whitenwield
Reid
Bristol's new bike rule sparks rider war and jokes
Bristol Pennsylvania braces for a strict bicycle ordinance with odd restrictions provoking humor and planned court challenges from wheelmen. Citizens mock clauses about ladies over 16 not aerobatic and men over 60 not straddling their bikes, while some riders plan lawsuits. A local ad promotes DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin troubles, reflecting era ads alongside civic news.
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Bristol
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