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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal lists delivery by carrier at 19 tents weekly to Topeka or authorics, or the same rate in Kansas towns with carrier service. Mail rates are six months at 390 and one year at 3.60. Weekly edition pricing unspecified.
The article discusses the first half year 1893 to 1895 circulation details for Topeka dailies and contrasts the Topeka Capital and Topeka Daily Star Journal with local circulation figures. It mentions postage advantages of local papers, weather notes for Kansas, and various political and economic observations. It notes Topeka papers’ reach in Shawnee county and nearby areas and references figures about daily averages and impressions from Associated Press reports.
The state railroad commissioners plan a sweep to inspect over five hundred million miles of track in under a day. A. A. Stewart is reappointed as superintendent of the Olathe Institution amid protests, praised for reform. A farmers’ bounty on exports is proposed to boost domestic purchases and prices, arguing for more American containers and use of labor. The piece critiques silver coinage and warns against overexpansion of exports.
A compilation of humorous and local notes from Kansas towns. Items include a Coffey county district named Possum Trot, a Wellington cyclist nicknamed Lid for punctured tires, harvest progress in Lawrence, and various local anecdotes from Emporia, Potwin, Atchison, Council Grove, Holton, Howard, Burlington, LeRoy, Salina, Gridley, Independence, and more.
By Victoria news, thousands dying as cholera ravages Japanese troops and hospitals fill major stations. Censorship limits local papers from detailing disaster. Formos expedition noted as especially disastrous amid heavy military losses.
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church at Fourth and Tyler streets celebrates 25 years with an orchestra and vocal music program and speakers. All residents of Topeka are invited. admission is free.
Low rate excursions with step over privileges to Boston New York and other cities by the Santa Fe route. See Rowley Bros agents for details and all particulars.
John M Hurst a Baltimore merchant of wealth and influence seeks the Maryland governorship. He has never held office but leads Hurst & Co a major importing firm and sits on multiple boards including Balti mers board of trade Johns Hopkins hospital trustee and Merchants and Manufacturers association ex president. He resides at Hurstleigh near Baltimore and attends St Peters church while his wife Mary Bell comes from the Bell family.
A New York Presbyterian Building costing 2 million dollars stands completed on Fifth Avenue at Twentieth Street. It is an eleven story fireproof modern gothic structure built of Indiana limestone, replacing the Stuart mansion site purchased for 670000 dollars. The board of home missions faces debt from reduced church contributions, though the building itself did not divert funds. Debts rose from 66407 in 1893 to 564850 this year, with funds limited for the neediest missionaries. A. J. Blackwell plans a 200000 dollar temple at David City in Indian Territory. Zululand adopts money orders in the United Kingdom. The Lord Chief Justice Russell resumes circuit riding on horseback.
Charles Appleere recounts Joseph S Blackburn of Kentucky, now senator, as a popular figure among supporters and foes alike. The piece highlights his practical approach, horse-loving Kentuckian identity, a legendary judge anecdote with Senator Beck, and his talent for fluent polysyllabic speech often called the gift of gab.
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