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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1895
Page
4
The article argues for an amendment granting women suffrage, noting slow progress due to partisan politics. It emphasizes that the aim is to enable women to act independently if desired, while maintaining femininity, and predicts that true equality would enhance both sexes without forcing manliness.
Feb 4 forecast for Kansas calls for fair, warmer tonight and Tuesday with variable winds. The page also contains editorial riffs on treasury policy, bond questions, enforcement of laws, and commentary from Leavenworth and Topeka papers, discussing gold withdrawals, legal tenders, and European ideas on currency.
Kansas scenes report a rainbow mush and milk social in Smith Center. Smith County notes Tyner sports traded for a buggy and harness. Delphos library sits in a millinery store, boosting headwear style. Local papers mock politicians and rail plans while Kansans ponder lectures, gambling laws, and the fate of the Eldorado Citizen.
A Rock Island eastbound train of nine cars derailed one mile west of Willard, eighteen miles west of Topeka, with no serious injuries. Two passengers were cut by glass but kept from lasting harm. others were shaken but uninjured. Fire was caused by an overturned car stove but extinguished. crew and passengers received care and delays were minimized. The cause remains uncertain, with rails and track condition under review by railroad officials.
Letter to the editor listing reasons suffragists want the legislature to resubmit the suffrage question. Arguments include belief in right and majority support, nonpartisan principle, political strategy, petition momentum, prohibition concerns, supportive men, tax contributions by women, maternal perspective, and fear of antiwomen opposition. Signed Case P. and editor requests readers to note Beggs’ Little Giant Pills advertisement present in the page.
Mrs Stryker speaks on Modern Pharisees or Churchianity Versus Christianity at Hamilton hall tonight addressing Topeka club critics of local ministers. She will discuss temperance reform woman suffrage and church actions while defending some club members and outlining Christian reform tensions. Admission is free. Also notes approval of Rio Grande Dam and Irrigation Co incorporation and an arts lecture at Library hall by Dr Curry with over one hundred European views.
The House committee appointed to probe the penitentiary will convene Tuesday. Warden Dick Chase and several penitentiary employees are ordered to appear before the panel, which will begin the inquiry into the facility and its operations.
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