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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1894
Page
4
The State Journal offers a carrier delivery option for ten cents per week to Topeka and suburbs and to every Kansas town with carrier service at the same price. Weekly subscription is 60 cents, monthly rates 3.60.
The State Journal notes lead circulation in Kansas for the summer period with a 139 percent increase. It discusses the paper’s fall Associated Press status, advertising mentions, and the Chicago-based printing and distribution details, including Perry Imkens Jr. as manager.
A garbled weather forecast notes rain tonight and a warmer weekend with variable winds across the east, followed by a lengthy political profile on John McBride. It outlines his rise in mining unions, leadership roles, key strikes, and election pursuits shaping labor history and legislative impact.
A historical notice recounts the career of Mr. McBride, long a pillar of the United Mine Workers of America and organizer of a major strike involving over 150,000 miners. He served as state labor commissioner, led UMWA, helped found the American Federation of Labor, and shaped early labor movement strategy. The brief notes his influence and the era of consolidation into the UMWA.
A favorable weather day enabled a four thousand mile telegraph circuit linking Denver and New York and offices from Kansas City to New Orleans. The Associated Press report spread along three to four thousand miles of wire with many major cities connected. The Denver office began the morning batch from its end, extending the circuit to Boston and Philadelphia later in the day.
Rev H D Fisher of Westmoreland Kansas is named as a candidate for chaplain of the lower house in Washington. A Savannah dispatch notes his life was saved by his wife Mrs Fisher who shielded him during a raid by pulling him from under debris and dousing flames with water. The story circulates amid eastern papers and local recollections of the Lawrence incident.
A fragment from a 28 item market list shows granulated sugar Freeh country batter fresh country eggs Ploride sweet oranges four packages cleaned currants Olros orange and lemon ect. The readable items suggest a grocery flyer with multiple priced lines and product names.
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