Topeka State Journal Delivery and Office Details
The State Journal Day edition serves Topeka and nearby areas with daily paper delivery. It lists temporary quarters at 21 and 113 East Seventh Street and permanent home at 800 Kansas Avenue near Eighth Street. Contact numbers are provided for the business office and reporters room.
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Topeka
Waburba
Aby Hankan
Isle Paper
East Seventh Street
Topela State Journal
Kansas Avenue
Eighth
Topeka Daily State Journal 1896 circulation figures
The Topeka Daily State Journal reports six months of circulation data from January through June 1896 with daily averages and comparisons. It notes a high daily average around 198,000 for the year and provides figures for prior years 1894 and 1895, along with the six month period ending June 30, 1896.
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Topeka Dairy Suite Journal
Lally
Tipeta
Ranmoytas
Topeka Daily State Journal
Vic
Tochurtwe
Wgitar and Proprietor
Topeka
Kan
Campaign figures trap voters in a math of truth
A column warns voters about manipulated figures used in campaigns. It argues Major McKinley cites export changes to mislead and shows how inflation or unit measures alter perceived farmer gains. It urges voters to seek exact truth, study merits, and vote by intelligence and conscience.
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Limadit
Hie
McKinley
True Bimetallism Debate on Silver Standard Viability
A reader asks if a true bimetallic standard could be kept by issuing standard silver dollars redeemable for bullion. The writer argues only paired metals, with fixed legal parity, can sustain bimetallism. He notes current gold standard and explains metal values shift with production and demand. International agreement for bimetallism is unlikely, and major powers oppose such shifts.
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State Journal
Republicus National Convention
England
Neily Ranger
Each &O
Buck Masons
European nations oppose silver and return to bimetallism
The text argues that prices rise with money value and fall with a shrinking money supply. It asserts that England and other European nations favor maintaining a small money volume to keep prices low and are opposed to silver remonstration and bimetallic reform.
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England
McKinley Clubs Formed Across Cities
Telegrams from Aug 2 to Aug 25 report McKinley and Hobart clubs forming in Canton St Joseph Omaha Garrett Portsmouth Franklin and other towns. Influential locals welcome protection and sound money while pledging support and greeting the presidential ticket. Southern Ohio factories and workers receive backing as clubs organize with hundreds of members and officers.
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Canton
Major McKinsey
St. Joseph
Sto
Mc‘Kintey Club
ED Leedbury
Omaha
Neb
Sixth Ward
McKinley and
Hobart
Batardsy Girt
HT Leavity
Garrett
Ind
McKinley and Hobart
Charles Sullivan
Portsmouth
Second Ward
McKinsey Club
Ohio
A.J. Pumbey
Franklin
Hobart Club
Journal Subscriber Drive Expands City Reach
Thirty five new readers pledged for the Journal yesterday adding to the list of urban and rural subscribers. Names cover Topeka Lyndon Scranton Carbondale and nearby towns with addresses in Topeka Manhattan and Colorado Springs among others.
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Journal
D. Hayes
Topeka Ave
Dr. Chilson
Wabash Ave
Oak
Mr. Short
Laurent
North Topeka
Topeka
John Henderson
Auburn
John Terry
Manhattan News Dealer
W. M. Holden
Williamsburg
Kan
W. L. Chamberlain
Colorado Springs
M. M. Batley
Manitou
J. S. Kennedy
Lyndon
J.D. Bradley
B. & Hadlock
R. H. Miles
A. Ingersel
F. M. Space
G. W. Miller
Ken
O.C. Deaver
W. H. Caylor
Ed McClure
Myrtle Callaham
Newton
Rev
J. H. Purdue
Scranton
Robert Morris
T. Green
John B. Petterson
G. W. Duffey
Vermillion
H. Walker
Frankfort
Eli Stark
W. Brown
Clinton
H. Bradford
Grove
J- W. Leech
C. M. Reese
Sam Watkinson
Carbondale
Thompson
Carbondal
Matin
Carribordal
A. Fairbanks
Eat
Evans
Valley Falls
Joint congressional committee formed by fusion groups
Fusion committees representing Democrats Populists and Bimetallists met in San Francisco appointing a 16 member Joint congressional committee empowered to select congressional candidates. To nominate a candidate four Democrats four Populists and two silver men must vote yes. The chosen nominee becomes the union candidate of the three parties. Other nominees must withdraw or rely on personal support.
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Californ
San Francisco
Joint Congressional Committee
Went Salem teachers ordered to focus on duties
Greenville Pa Went Salem township school directors vow strict business focus for the year. Teachers must not attend parties dances or late gatherings on Friday and Saturday nights. The township is financially strong with school houses and a $1000 treasury. Wages for teachers have been raised by $5 a month.
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Greenville
Salem
Cena Honk Hee
Italy Out With Brazil May Withdraw Legation
Rumor says the entire Italian legation may be withdrawn from Brazil due to recent political conflicts in San Paulo between Italians and Brazilians. The Italian minister awaits Rome's instructions on action. In other news, a London dispatch notes 275 thousand pounds in gold moved from Bank of England to America, with 20 thousand shipped by a major firm. Seligmans also reported to be shipping.
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Brazil
Fin de Janeiro
Aus
San Paulo
Itelians
Italien
Rome
United States
New York
London
Bank England
America
Seligmans
Ben Clover on Bonds in Public Finance Debate
The letter from B H Clover argues for government issued bonds as a public currency to fund utilities and bridges, noting Kansas Shawnee county bonds as precedent. He claims such bonds could pay interest and principal within a year and seeks objections to this currency idea while contrasting with gold and silver.
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Wren Ben Clover
Treasury Nous
Unese
Clover
Des Motes
Kansas
Shawnee
Shawnee County
Egar Ke Bryan free silver club meets at Saxons hall
East Side Bryan club held its second meeting at Saxon’s hall near the Sixth street Viaduct. Eight members joined, about fifty attended. President Frampton presided, with H Arena man introduced as a speaker from Sioux City. Arena argued for Americanism and a national money standard against English influence, while Prof Hawks spoke briefly on the money question’s statistics. Meeting adjourned about 10:30.
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Egar Ke Bryan
Sixth Street
Frampton
H. Arenaman
Sioux City
Cleveland
United States
Polic
Jos
Third Ward Republicans Organize Topeka Club
The Third Ward Republican club rooms hosted a meeting where President A. B. Woolveson spoke and announced the club as the largest ward club yet. The group plans a ward poll to gauge voters while excluding colored voters, who may form their own club.
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Third Ward
Topeka
Flambeau Club
A. B. Woolveson
MS Thie
Woman of 74 in Jail Amid Odd Allegations
An elderly woman aged 74, claiming Topeka kin, is jailed after wandering and telling far fetched stories. She describes losses in Johnstown and Cripple Creek, mentions Confederate relatives, and complains of spells and drink. Police plan to send her to Atchison while a performance by Bowery Girl May West is noted as upcoming entertainment.
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Sumer
Old Lidy
Sratter Arday
Topeka
Cen
Charleston
Wwo
Johnstown
Cripple Creek
Atchison
Thorpe
West
T A Elect Officers At Annual Hall Jenkins Meeting
At the recent annual business meeting Hall Jenkins re-elected president Mrs Thasher as corresponding secretary, Mrs Perine treasurer, with delegates including Mrs S A Thurston and Mrs H C Fellow to attend the district convention at Cotromm Falla, September 18. Weather indications show cool conditions for Kansas University fair tonight and Thursday in Chicago.
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Hall Jenkins
Thasher
Perine
S. A .Thurston
H.C. Fellow
Cotromm Falla
Cucaco
Kansas
Lord Russell of England and his rise to high judicial office
Learned in the law traces the life of Charles Russell born 1833 in Ballypot Ireland. It covers his training at Newry Belfast Dublin and Trinity College and his ascent from solicitor in Belfast to reporter in London and finally to chief justice. It notes his marriage to Ellen Mohlolland and highlights landmark cases such as the Parnell commission the Belt versus Lawes trial and the Maybrick case.
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Charles Russell
Ringland
Saratoga
England
Ballypot
Newry
Ireland
Arthur Russell
Killough
Downpatrick
Wevry Institute
Russell
Englan
Belfast
Lord Russell
Ellen Moelholland
Joseph Malholland
London
House of Commons
Court of Appeal
Parnell
Colin Campbell
Lawes
Roral Academy
Wyndham
Cambri Pasha
Maybrick
Sir Cheries
Hypnotizes the Fish at Menominee Campout Bonfire
A Menominee party at Poplar Point last night built a bonfire near the water and watched thousands of perch swim ashore. People captured many fish with lines and nets while others were returned to the lake. The event drew attention as a potential fisheries revolution, though only perch were affected.
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Menomines
Mich
Poplar Point
Cravelly
Adeo
California Secretary of State Refuses Fusion Electors
San Francisco August 26 The Call reports Secretary of State Brown will not place fusion Democratic Populist presidential electors on the ballot. He rules California law requires alphabetic grouping by party. He will request the attorney general's opinion once the fusionists submit names.
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California
San Francisco
Brown
Uise Eaattor
Santa Fe Route The Bomb Road
National histed: DB a 'et iree jawyer, Sept 1. One fare plus $0 for round trip. Dates of sale August 49 to September 2 inclusive, final limit for return September 30. Enquire of Cromwell & Jeffers, post office, North Topels, or at Santa Fe depot, foot of Fifth Street. W. Garvey. Agent.
Santa Fe Route Home Road One Fare Round Trip
Train fare notice for Santa Fe Route promoting home road travel with a single round trip fare. Tickets go on sale August 3. The fragmentary text mentions a second battery and unclear detail, but the core item is the ticket offer.
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Ney Abatterie
McKinley Odds and Bryan Bets in New York House Gauntlet
A New York house advances a betting gauntlet on the 1896 presidential race. Prye offers up to ten thousand to 45,000 to sway votes between McKinley and Bryan, Horace Greely, and Southern supports as leverage. Harry Safford addresses the McKinley club on monetary policy amid small attendance.
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Bryan
Prye
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