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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1894
Page
4
Subscription notice lists delivery options by carrier or mail. Daily edition costs ten cents a week in Topeka and nearby towns, with the same price in Kansas towns served by the paper’s carrier system. Mail rates show three months for 3.00 and one year for 360, with weekly edition priced per year.
Weather indications from Cirade forecast fair and warmer conditions in Kansas with southwesterly winds. The column engages in political speculation about governors senators and party dynamics, citing named figures and regional party tensions, while noting public sentiment and law enforcement debates in metropolitan areas.
A garbled, mosaic clipping mentions quiet weddings in Emporia, a low Missouri River level at Leavenworth, a potato yield near Atobiaono, Hutchinson’s signal station, Burlington’s after-dark scene, Ottawa glee club and university feelings, a jab at a local editor, Junction City mayoral trouble over fines, Baxter Springs lodges, and wadding trousseaux in Salleastone.
The passage notes widespread excitement in Burlington as fences come down and prior cautious citizens face milk shortages. A Wichita man recalls a London sighting of a czar, while Dickinson County residents marvel at Walter Handy appearing in creeks without rain, amid disbelief and wonder.
A drafty OCR recounts Masonic events and figures from Istanese Kulghta Termplars to Scottish Rite bodies. It notes a fire in Indianapolis destroying the Scottish Rite bulldog and irreplaceable documents, honors Franklin Lawrence of Lodge 465, and reports a recent banquet with 163 knights present. The Masonic Grand Lodge of Minnesota meets in Chicago and allocates funds for the Orphans' home while Kalamazoo Mason dedicates a new temple.
A report from the Board of Control criticizes recent Knights of Pythias measures on personal crisis reports and drunkard concerns. It cites 3 rejections totaling 139000 in misused endowment funds and fraud allegations, prompting a Boston Grand Lodge postponement and a January lodge creation in Camilo Massachusetts with 225 names.
The nations convention of the National President union was held in New York City. It nominated Edward Peck for president and Thomas Tunison for vice president, with other officials named from Brooklyn and New York. A related note reports county attorney and assistant attorney general appointment requests for Cloud County and a coal and hair product promotion included among local items.
The article details an international hotel and traveling accommodation exposition to be held near the Nationsmuseum in Amsterdam from March to April 1895. It describes the expo layout with a grand river steamer replica, a vast arena for sport, and displays on architecture transportation industry and food. It notes free transport by a railway company, an international jury, and Dutch tourism draws. It also profiles Amsterdam’s geography with 300 bridges, the palace of Amsterdam, the Ryksmuseum, and the city’s harbor and historic fortifications. It closes with a biographical sketch of Daniel G. Elliott, zoologist and curator at Field Columbian Museum, highlighting his career and honors.
Visitors flock daily to Oak Hill cemetery in Washington to view the blasted hickory marking James G Blaine's grave There stands a modest mound and a foot marker bearing J G B initials adjoining are the graves of Wilker Blaine and Mrs Alice Stanwood Blaine Walker Blaine and Mrs Coppinger also rest nearby Blaine requested burial beside his favorite tree and the tree itself will not be destroyed The site draws more attention than any other tomb in the cemetery with officials noting the bloom of interest from the public
An old time ad promotes Rudy's Pile Suppository claiming to cure piles and constipation with a money back guarantee. It offers a circular and free sample from Martin Rudy in Lancaster Pennsylvania and lists availability through first class druggists and W R Kennedy in Topeka at Fourth and Kansas Avenue.
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