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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1895
Page
4
The Twenty second JeAn Crystal Paper of Topeka announces daily delivery by carrier ten cents a week and mail subscriptions with annual and weekly rates. Distribution covers Topeka and suburban towns with carrier systems and same pricing in places served by branch offices.
The piece touts Topeka's rising fortunes tied to railroad arrivals in 1880 and 1890, notes population jumps, and urges organizing a live commercial club to spur business. It cites past growth, current debt talk, and hints at political resignations and tariff debates shaping the era’s economy. It ends with a local commerce pitch and a tongue in cheek call for cigars.
A critique of tariff policy arguing that even with rising production farm values have fallen. The Wilson bill is said not to help staples like wheat and cotton while prices for cattle wool and other goods show costly losses. The piece contends demotion of silver and resumption act abuse enable bond issues and caution against political pressure by Republicans on debt instruments.
A congressional committee notes exports fell by 78 million dollars in a year after tariff changes. It also cites a 73 million drop from lower American product sales due to price shifts, blaming the push for a gold standard as the primary cause of foreign trade losses.
Copeland, cashier in the Santa Fe treasurer's office, received a unique Christmas gift from Orin J. Field. A dog statue made of U S greenbacks, estimated to be worth about 60,000 dollars, titled The watch dog of the treasury. Field, formerly in Tupaka and Kansas City banking circles, sent the piece to Copeland, who declares the gift will guard the treasury.
Residents around Fifteenth and Washington complain of constant disturbances from a frame house where a large craps game operates nightly and on holidays. People of all ages and races mingle at the site, with pool betting and various games advertised. Neighbors say the place has grown so influential they cannot tolerate it much longer.
High school pupils gear up for the local oratorical contest on January 10 to decide Topeka’s state rep for March. Contestants include Edith Wordee, Frank Ceil, Ernest Fisk, Loula Valentine, Lee Porbes, and Malcolm Tosy as teachers arrange the event in a college style setting at the high school auditorium. Four schools reach the state stage this year: Lawrence, Ostawa, Atchison, and Topeka, with a new auditorium incentive promising free use though pricing remains undecided.
At Imperial Music Hall, a heated clash followed an interview between Curtis and Lero'l Dodd. Curtis alleges Dodd used songs from Gentleman Jos in the burlesque The Prisoner of Sunday. Curtis was denied entry after a dispute with the doorkeeper. he plans to sue Manager Kean.
An angry man in the county clerk’s office complained after paying taxes. He had been promised five percent back for paying all taxes, but received only four cents more than his six dollar bill. He accused officials of an outrageous shortfall and rushed to contact County Treasurer Stabl.
Barre Mont December 22 Mrs Alice Marian Marina formerly Mrs Leitner of New York has handed her manuscript The Southern Convict to her lawyers with injunctions to restrain David Belasco from presenting the curlaw bell scene in The Hours of Marrisnd which she says mirrors her work and for which she secured copyright February 6 1801 She asserts Belasco's play is the same as The Southern Convict produced in 1880.
The wedding of Misa Lauss Alassiy to Hexrrm was solemnized after the matinee on Tuesday night at the opera house stage. Guests included Herbert O. Glaston, along with other dignitaries and church officials from the Ghrinuaa church.
The Hon Whyfore Jackson of Louisiana visits Detroit and delivers a humorous yet probing lecture on the human condition at the Limekiln Club. He mocks man’s flaws, questions purpose, and ends with a light jest about rhinoceroses as he departs amid applause.
An old Georgia man boasts of owning acres and a mule while telling Chicago readers of his profitable yet troubled finances in hard times. The tale blends dialect, debt swap anecdotes, and a comic misreading of wealth as a measure of status amid monetary strain.
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