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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier offers 10 tents a week to Topeka and suburbs or same price in Kansas towns with carrier system. By mail three months 8.90, six months 4 60, one year 3.60. Weekly edition yearly rate 60.
A Topeka note laments votes and politics while praising a brave woman who saved thirty seven lives in Harper. Articles reference the city’s two U S senators, a governor elect, and Republican loyalties amid national finance debates and railroad controversies.
The Kansas race centers on Major Hood a business leader and veteran who built a career in banking railroads mining and farming. He is praised for integrity public spirit and ties to eastern capitalists while advocating silver inflation and strong federal leadership to steady the economy.
The Wichita Eagle notes items about a Dr Rafter closing his Holton practice, a Hayes resident adding a 210 pound hog at Hutchinson, the Santa Fe hiring a detective to guard a Wichita coal car, and Reading organizing a chorus for courting. Includes Nickerson washerwomen affected by glass washboards and mentions Rosebank business volume.
A scattered clipping reflects community life with jokes on paring stones at Coffeyville and winter discomfort for Ottawa residents, alongside reports of a literary success in Junction City, a large Washburn Jubilee Singers event, and a mix of local curiosities from Abilene and Emporia. It mentions a range of small incidents, theatre-like entertainments, a boxing-themed poem, Sunday services, and local advertising for Griggs & Axtell.
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