State Journal Qeres of Subscription and Delivery Terms
The State Journal lists subscription rates for daily and weekly editions with delivery by carrier to all parts of the paper’s distribution area. It notes prices for yearly and three month terms and provides contact details including Kansas reference corner and office phone numbers for readers and advertisers.
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Manent
Topexa Beate Journal Pulldiee
We Kansas
Eighth Telaphones
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New York
Potter Building
Weather Snows Hit Kansas With Frigid Afternoon Drop
Forecasts show snow flurries spreading across Kansas this afternoon with dropping temperatures. North to northeast winds intensify as a cold front moves through, bringing a wintry mix and slipping highs.
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Kansas
Hurley
Topeka’s Fall Festival Spurs Auditorium Drive
In Topeka the 1904 Fall Festival showcased merchants and citizens uniting for progress. Enthusiasm built belief in public cooperation, fueling plans for a large convention hall that would attract visitors and strengthen the city’s commercial standing for years.
The Hot Time in the Ud Town Concert Rights Debate
A fragmentary piece discusses public morals and artistic performance in a city, noting conflicts over personal rights and protests during a stage show. It cites opera singers and audience reactions, with reference to laws restricting harassment and the balance between artistic expression and decorum. The text hints at tensions between performers and authorities over propriety in public entertainment.
Mankato Council Faces Supreme Court Hearing
A Mankato town council plans a hearing themed A Hot Time in the Old Town while anticipating potential overruling by the Supreme Court. The event underscores local governance tensions and legal scrutiny.
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Mankato
Supreme Court
Tubral
GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe
A garbled column offers provocative musings on human nature and social behavior. It argues against woman hating, mocks the self importance of the poor, and rails at mutual hatreds over others. Injected snippets criticize honesty, wealth, labor, and winter versus summer.
Reflections and Remarks Across Two Papers
A mosaic of clipped opinions and muttered maxims from Chicago News and New York Press. It riffs on habits, judgments, and gender quirks with sly humor and social critique, mixing aphorisms, misprints, and sharp takes on manners and money.
New York Weekly Trade Review Highlights Holiday Prosperity
The Baro RECORI Dd Gxeee report notes an unusually large year end surplus, with bank loans up 25 percent and savings in ample supply. Exports hit record highs while imports lag. Treasury receipts rise, and money markets ease amid plans for larger bond issuance. Merchandise exports surged in November, with eleven month totals reaching 76 million dollars, while two months show excess of exports over imports. Wheat and cotton sectors show mixed but strong export gains, with wool and textile production rising though demand remains variable. Failures drop to 26 in the U S and 38 in Canada compared with last year.
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H. G. Dun & Cals Weekly Review of Trade
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Atlantic
Chicago
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Northern
Wouthern
United States
Canada
Whisky Found in Hull of Steamer Arabia in Kansas
Divers report uncovering whisky and cargo from the river steamer Arabia buried in sand near Parkville. About 165 barrels with tax at 1.10 per gallon, potential revenue over 7900 dollars if recovered. Wreckage yielded a petrified potato on deck, an odd exhibit for Parkville stores.
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Bec
Arabia
Parkville
Yesterdas
Missouri
shifGul
Kansas
Sutton
Leaverworth
Sore Connelaseurs
Weisha
Local Capitalists Plan New Gas Company for Leavenworth
A group of Leavenworth capitalists plans to form a new gas company by January to build a plant and supply both public and private consumption. A signed contract drive has circulated for two days, yielding many signatures as prospectors cheer the venture.
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Leavenworth
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Mankato Plans to Ban Singing of a Dance Song
Town council of Mankato moves to enact an ordinance abolishing singing humming or whining of the song A Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight At Topetia s Fall Festive The measure cites nuisance from chorus that spread after Topeka festival and earlier bans in 1808 the council would fine 64 cents for each offense.
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Menkato
Old Town
Topetia
Karnival Knights
Topeka
Kansas
Stig
Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures Woman With Digestive Ruin
A testimonial from Ironton Ohio describes a 42 year old woman suffering severe headaches indigestion and weight loss. After trying Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills she improves before completing four bottles and regains health appetite and strength. The ad promotes Hood's True Blood Purifier and Pills as the cure.
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Hood
Heaith
Enys
Ironton
Ohio
Orie
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
Mankato Nuisance Forced to Cut Price City Marshal Hires Low
In Tonga Hoxie Leavenworth county the city council after weeks of struggle finally appointed Matt Homan as city marshal. The salary was cut to 2 cents a week to enforce the prohibitory law, ending the prior official’s long service and controversy.
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Tonganoxie
Leavenworth
Tonga Hoxie
Guardian of the Peace
Matt Homan
Cii
Toogunoxie
Campfire at Alton Delights Veterans With Banquet and Speeches
In Alton on December 18 a campfire event hosted by Gen Tull G A BR post and WBC drew a large crowd. Comrades delivered speeches on army life and duty, Mrs Iva Stockbridge recited a patriotic piece, and local musicians provided music into the night.
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Tull
G. A. BR. Post
W. B.C
Charles Guttery
Lle
Army
Stockbridge
Tilton
Iva Stockbridge
A.P. Birown
W. Wo
A.B. Brown
W. C. Brown
Mika Kate Chase
Dr. S
Hawley
Brickwell
Dipper Handle Key Sparks Jail Breakout Escape
Bert Oren and George Omen two Stockton jail inmates escaped from Hooks county jail by using a key made from the handle of a dipper. They left a note praising Sheri Shorthill and indicated plans to travel to friends, with Oren once escaping from Phillips county jail.
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Stockton
Bert Oren
George Omen
Hooks County
Sheri Shorthill
Storkies
Oren
Phillips County
Bold Robbers Take $600 From Cherryvale Depot Safe
Thieves looted a Wells Fargo express car at Cherryvale on a Thursday night while the agent was away about ten minutes. $600 in cash vanished and no trace of the robbers has been found. County Treasurer Maggy paid out $1,288 for rabbit scalps, with 42,050 scalps received since November 6, raising fraud suspicions about smuggled scalps from other counties and Oklahoma though no proof yet.
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Deg
Wells Fargo Express
Maggy
Oklahoma
Topeka Man Disappears From Stockton Bakery
Ez Chapman, a Topeka refugee operating a Stockton bakery, has disappeared leaving Mrs Chapman unsure of his whereabouts. Authorities suspect tension over mortgage demands and possible estrangement, with prior threats noted but cooled by her pleas. A separate report from Chambersburg recounts Rev. H B Irwin condemning feather wear in sermons, prompting women to tear feathers from bonnets in view of attendees.
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H. W. Chapman
Topeka
Chambersburg
Irwin
Lincold
Neb
Kine Street
United Brethren Church
Newspaper Change at Centralia Centralia
Centralia reports a publisher absorption of the Centralia Journal subscription list by Times Publishing and the Journal plant moves to Seneca to start a fourth paper leaving one paper in Centralia. Dr Powell honored in Stockton with election as G A R commander. Dr J B Rowell of Stockton reinstated and elected commander of the G A B post there. McPherson reports county courthouse and jail construction and bond payments of ten and twenty thousand dollars. Alton Empire leased with Freary Arnold elected deeds registrar of Osborne county.
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Times Publishing Company
Centralia Journal
Frank M. Hartman
Nemaha County
Journal
Seneca
Centralia
Dr. Powell
Stockton
J. B. Rowell
G. A. R. Post
Rooks County Veterans’ Association
GABR
Post
Alton
Alton, Dec
Freary Arnold
Osborne County
Leased Alton Empire to Centralia Publisher Amid Kansas Pension Notices
The Alton Empire changes hands as Arnold, a young county officer, leases to John Ford of Centralia. Included are scattered pension grants across Kansas with multiple recipients and locations such as Leavenworth, Fort Dodge, Garden City, Lawrence and Valley Falls, detailing original and widow pensions and small dollar amounts.
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Washington
Charleston
Randall
Charles Lester
National Milita Me
Leavenworth
Sterjernbssplingsworth
Fort Dodge
Additionsi
Henry W. Crow
Garden City
Hte
America
Death by Self Inflicted Wound in Brooklyn Court Case
In New York on December 18, William Burle, dying from a pistol wound self inflicted, traced the name Minnie in blood on the wall while a four year old child watched. Minnie Lawrence testified in Justice Worth's Brooklyn court that the letters burned in her brain, symbolizing the love that drove Burle to ruin and death. The dramatic episode of the case comes after a prior report.
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New York
William Burle
Minnie
Minnie Lawrence
Justice
Morton statue controversy at monument site in Indiana
Indianapolis dec 18 the board of regents report to the governor on the Morton statue dispute at Monument circle. Mrs Morton objects to moving the statue aside and circulates protests to state posts. Regents refuse to change location, disputing claims of proprietary interest by Mrs Morton family or the Grand Army of the Republic.
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Board of Regents
G. A. RR
Morton
Mra Morton
Grand Army of the Republic
Governor Morton
Regenta
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