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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1898
Page
4
A collage of 1900s commentary touches on Spain's peace methods aiding cable firms, US sugar and coffee potential, and political shifts with Hanna as Ohio's key factor. It recalls Captain Hobson and the Merrimac episode, sailor valor, social class tensions, and reflections from London on mortality and class.
General Shafter declares in a letter to the New York Voice his firm opposition to the Guerneen style sale of intoxicants on military reservations. He argues post exchanges demoralize soldiers, impair efficiency, and tempt temperate men, despite claims of bribery to improve table fare. He asserts the US Government can feed soldiers without such establishments.
A fragment from a city record notes strong local desire to curb alcohol. Residents voice belief that sobriety benefits the city, urging self-restraint and avoiding liquor imports.
A ragbag of quips and aphorisms lampoons marriage, gender roles, and daily life. It puns on optimists and pessimists, notes streetcar speed versus catching it, mocks political rhetoric, talks of forgery, jokes at women’s expense, and ends with a wry aside about engaged girls and gullibility. Numerous named locales and one-liners anchor the page’s humor.
Kansan H Caldwell opposes admitting present war soldiers to the Grand Army of the Republic. He argues the G A R is rooted in Civil War ideals and cannot assimilate later conflicts. A band concert at Garfield Park is planned for tomorrow.
The article outlines U S claims for the cession of Cuba and Puerto Rico plus surrounding West Indian islets. It describes key islands such as Vieques Culebra Mona and others, their geography climate and potential value for settlement and resources, arguing the strategic importance of the chain and noting navigation passages and harbors.
The Nebraska Kansas Log Rolling association celebration drew not less than 16,000 attendees, with Woodmen and Royal Neighbors from Kansas and Nebraska forming the parade. Mayor E G Drahelm welcomed the visitors as multiple bands and floats rolled through town. Orator HE A Enright spoke on Modern Woodmen of America merits while Mrs Fannie R Vickrey promoted the Royal Neighbors.
A report describes a man named Smith repeatedly visiting a police station, suspected of insanity. Early Monday morning authorities found Smith at Wentsurat Street after he had opened a latent area in Pateb, with police noting prior visits to the station.
Burlington Aug 13 The marriage of J G Dension and Adah R Clark was kept secret for six months and revealed late Thursday. They wed February 2, 1898, at the Church of the Ascension with Rector J M Rankin officiating at the couple’s residence.
Independence reports a court ruling in a property dispute where the husband sought dispossession of his wife’s estate. The case involves acreage and the court prevented him from taking all joint property amid personal crisis notes and a recovered body in Verdigris river reports. A body recovered in Monett burial plans are noted along with local civic events.
Wichita reports Jayhawker, aging printer Eckert Griffith, known as Jayhawker, walking from St Louis to Wichita over three weeks. He remains vigorous and plans to travel west with his Discano gear. Nearby, Ned Green misrepresented a patent churn scheme to A C Home of Clearwater, leaving a contested $200 note as Home and his elderly wife face hardship.
Larned Kansas reports farmers resisting current wheat quotations. They are building granaries and storing grain to await higher prices. Heavy rains delayed threshing and marketing, resulting in very little wheat sold versus last year.
Bradstreet reports general trade and baby goods improving this week with iron and steel moving from promise to fulfillment. Steel billets and rails advance, foreign wheat and corn demand rises, and prices strengthen across oats, lard, beef, coffee, copper, and cotton. Export wheat and corn volumes remain robust. western business activity outpaces last week, while Canadian failures ease.
Emporia August reports that President A R Taylor of the Kansas state normal school sees the educational work Be the Child translated into Spanish. The regents faculty and citizens praise the work now to be used in Chilean schools, selected by a commission for Amaca Ap pieten Co publish.
Leavenworth August 13 Andrew Smith a colored preacher placed in the county jail last Monday to await a bearing regarding his sanity died in the jail authorities report state the death occurred while awaiting the hearing the preacher had been confined since last Monday
San Francisco August 13 The Evening Post reports Adolph Sutro’s will being challenged by Mrs Kluge the alleged widow and by the Meal heirs who allege a later will existence promising generous provision to herself and her two children. Interviews with associates suggest Sutro disposed of assets in a later will than the probated one. Bucklen’s Amica Salve advertised for skin and minor ailments with money back guarantee.
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