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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier ten cents weekly to Topeka and suburbs or same rate in towns with carrier service. By mail three months nine ninety cents, six months four ninety five? By mail one year four forty? Weekly edition per year sixty cents.
The piece surveys emigration worries from the United States toward Mexico and Mississippi, with comment on labor unions, insurance schemes, and court and political shifts. It references Pat McBryte, Mabon, Gompers, and Arthur, plus local booster efforts in Water Valley to fund a state promotional pamphlet for industries. It critiques tyranny fears, political evolution, and economic pressures shaping migration and union leadership.
The Chicago and Alton’s stance on liquor for workers could spark a broad shift in liquor law politics. If employers and unions embrace similar measures, saloons may fade as customers vanish, potentially ending liquor's political influence without legislation though risking upheaval from the liquor industry.
A fragmentary Kansas page blends odd names and rumors from Medicine Lodge to Leavenworth. It mentions hustlers, football talk, a boom for adjutant general, rising post noon prices, and a large apple orchard owner reporting $12,000 net from 400 acres amid university gossip and Pullman stock chatter.
A butcher named W Littow captured a strange fowl east of the city. The bird is described as bout guinea size with a head and feet like a turkey and a brown white mix. Its species remains uncertain. In local politics W E Glenn plans to contest E ightmap’s seat, claiming widespread illegal votes and ballot irregularities. Glenn resides in Horace while Wightman is from Tribos.
Announcements advertise next harvest excursion on December 1 with rail rates at one third fare for a 200 mile round trip. Tickets go on sale November 24 and January 1, for return by January 2. Also notes of city fairs, flower queen, and local sales at Swift Holiday and J W Farcworth. Advertisements include trains serving Topeka and routes via North Topeka and First Street, with various attractions and classes.
In Topeka, W Van Valkenburg asserts insurers will not form a lobby for the next legislature, dismissing talk of a hostile rate bill as hype. He cites past failures and warns career legislators use lobbies for personal gain. Other insurers back his stance while officials discuss irrigation, pardons, and staffing as lawmakers prepare for the winter session.
A dense Topeka era collage lists new books and periodicals. Philip Strong by C M Sheidun is reviewed. Laura Everingham Scammon’s Spoon Her Dan illustrated. Napoleon portraits in McClure’s Magazine. The Cosmopolitan December issue features Kipling stories and a travel piece. New York Decorator and Furnisher, Paving and Municipal Engineering, and Jenness Miller Monthly offer Christmas content and design trends.
A December issue preview describes 2 Percent Ty as a grand cheap-press product priced at 6y e nts with an illuminated Christmas cover and a review of Clarence Cook's piece on Artista as Historians. It highlights Garrett P Servise illustrated Popular Science Monthly January opening, celestial views, and Demorest's and Wanamaker's gift pages.
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