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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1896
Page
4
The State Journal Daily edition offers carrier delivery at 10 cents per week to Topeka and suburbs and same rate to towns with carrier service. By mail pricing is three months for 3.90, six months for 3.60, and one year for 3.60. Weekly edition rates are 80 cents per year.
A chaotic Kansas paper fragment covers silver party clashes in Congress and state politics. It names Senators and candidates, cites Populists courting Caldwell, debates on tariff and Sherman silver act repeal, and hints at temperamental sports and laws shaping Topeka and regional sentiment.
A Wichita Eagle excerpt scorns overbearing officials and urges publicize all news to curb fraud. It cites President Hayes and Chicago Times-Gossip on how newspapers serve the public, while noting the State Journal’s wide circulation and the gold standard debate shaping the Republican nomination context. Local quips and wedding musings punctuate the column, ending with news of Colonel W. P. Thompson Bend’s pneumonia death.
The article paints a vivid portrait of winter lumber camps in Minnesota Wisconsin and northern Michigan. It describes the rough housing cooking and sleeping arrangements the steady work of choppers sawyers drivers and cant hook men and the disciplined logging process from felling trees to skidways and rollways with logs hauled to mills downstream.
A young Egyptian khedive owns the costliest set of peace regalia in the world. The harness is made of black feather with chased gold buckles and collars, pad cloths embroidered in gold, and is valued at $11,000. It is designed for four bores and used on all state occasions.
Selected Her Grave. Annie S Peck of Providence who climbed the Matterhorn last summer chose before starting the ascent the spot in a small English cemetery at Zermatt where she wished to be buried if she perished. The World of Wonders notes enough iron in a diced specimen from forty two men to forge a 24 pound plowshare.
A portrait of Senator Hill of New York as a fearless, combative figure in the Senate. The piece recalls his early battles with older senators, his stubborn privacy at the Arlington and Normandie hotels, and stories of his opposition to women near him. It notes his honesty, wealth, and readiness to fight for his aims, with anecdotes from Albany and Wolfert's Roost.
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