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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal announces carrier delivery at 10 cents per week or a weekly rate across Topeka and surrounding areas, with mail options priced at three months for 80 dollars and one year for 3.50 dollars.
A sprawling Toledo style column reviews daily averages and circulation remarks of Topeka papers. It discusses the State Journal versus the Topeka Daily State Journal, postal costs, and broader political debate on tariffs, labor day speeches, and the silver question. Weather outlook and political micro-notes from Kansas and neighboring states follow.
The report cites 1892 debates and census figures showing birth rates falling, especially in western and southern states, with Utah and Wyoming showing sharp declines after reforms. It notes a rise and fall in the silver movement, and criticizes Populist Senator Peffer's view as misrepresented by Eastern bullion interests.
A mixed row of notes and quips from Kansas towns. References include W. I. Howe of Almene as nephew to an invention’s inventor, large eyed hens at Beversnoe, a resident named Jagger in Winfield, and a Bendena man with a new ice cream freezer. Local tales touch on evangelists, bicycle meet forecasts in Salina, a Newton woman seeking life changes, and a Baker University president’s obituary sketch.
The author, after a rough start with inept instructors and costly false starts, details his persistence to learn cycling. He moves from a poor New York academy to a better one, makes progress on the seventh lesson, plans a return to town in October, and believes anyone can become a cyclist with effort and time.
A former Burlington railroad worker nicknamed The Destroyer recalls brutal trunk handling on the C B and Q line. He describes a Chicago bound incident with a Saratoga trunk that wrecked his own family possessions, leading to his exit from the railroad and a later life running a butcher shop. His wife’s scrapbook of the episode follows him everywhere.
At the Erie depot in Jersey City a bride of about 20 and her groom, slightly older, traveled to New York for a week’s honeymoon. A smiling spectator questionably teased them, then vanished as the couple asserted their privacy amid surprised, quiet stares from fellow passengers. The groom, asserting confidence, offered reassurance to his uneasy bride and prepared to land in New York without further curiosity.
A traveler meets a squatter near the North Carolina line who, as he offers water, asks for news. The exchange hints at the prospect of war in Europe and the squatter dismisses European concerns, calling for focus on other dangers.
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