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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1894
Page
4
Terms of subscription outline carrier delivery ten cents weekly to Topeka and suburbs or Banear towns with carrier service. Mail rates listed as three months, weekly Britain price per year sixty? This fragment notes domestic and subscriber options without full clarity.
The record notes the greatest average daily circulation in Kansas for the three dull summer months of 1894, indicating a rise of a percentage against prior periods, with sparse figures and garbled OCR details.
A fragmentary political note cites Pimen to the Chicago Record arguing the Populists dead in Minnégate and mocking party immortality. It mocks the Republican and Democratic collapses, laments debt, defense spending, and tariff disputes, and touches on the Kolb vs Holt contest in Alabama with ballot box concerns.
The piece condemns calamity howling while recounting a Chicago scene where 5000 women queued for Thanksgiving meals. A mob emptied a charity room of beef, bread, tea, chickens, wine, and other provisions, then fought for scraps. The account laments rising hunger and questions civilization’s progress toward humane governance.
Washington dispatch notes a flood of new faces in the Fifty fourth Congress with many elected for novelty. It details Indiana Kentuckians and Alabama Missourians shaping committees, predicts shifts in leadership, and recalls past revolutions influencing current power dynamics.
Items from the North Side include social events at Union Pacific hotel and a Congregational church reading room gathering. Mrs. Gilmore returns from St Macy’s with son Jesse. Arthur Kane back from Kansas City after Thanksgiving. A Japanese tea at Union Pacific hotel funds Keeley Institute aid. A shooting incident on the Pottowatomie reserve involved Bourbonnais and Chapeau with unknown injuries. a marshal report circulated.
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