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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1895
Page
4
The message advertises delivery options for The State Journal in Topeka and Kansas towns with a cam pler system. It lists mail rates for three months and one year, a weekly edition price, and references carrier delivery and mail subscriptions.
Forecast for Kan wae is fair and cold tonight, with Friday turning fair and warmer and winds shifting from north to south. A broad sweep of notices follows, including remarks on suffrage at Atlanta, a New England congressman favoring free silver, and reform chatter about Missouri saloons and Kansas. Also noted are Illinois plans for a state anti-venom plant and Rev Anna Shaw's sermon on women’s clergy rights.
City residents oppose funding a 65 auditorium and demand a bridge as a priority. The piece notes a legislative push to repeal the prohibitory law and critiques free coinage of silver in global trade, arguing Europe’s gold standard favors commodity buyers.
A jumble of notes from Kansas towns. Mentions John F. Willits in Labo, Coffey County, Judge Woolchester cracking down in Dighton, and Crewmates in Quenema trading. Reports on Lyndon Osage City county seat quarrels, Burlington trade, fashion, and a rash of local oddities from Dodge City to Colby. An obituary line, pictures in Scranton, and a forecast of consolidating Dighton Sunday schools. Local humor on trains, chickens, skating, and a Wellington charity offer.
A Tupeksa man, Psunibas, unemployed and with a crippled wife, seeks aid from Associated Charities after pride blocked earlier help. His son, uneasy outside the matron's office, is brought in as both are comforted. Another veteran, widowed six weeks after his baby and with pension cut, struggles to support his motherless children and is unable to secure work or a police job.
A federal appeals court ruled that twenty eight trained snakes imported by Miss Jeannie Magnon were instruments of her trade as a snake charmer and eligible for duty free status under the tariff act of 1890. The decision reversed the collector and board of appraisers, upholding Magnon’s claim that the snakes were professional instruments rather than animals.
Special Correspondent notes a string of unusual winter cold across North America and beyond. From Dallas beer barrels bursting to Monterrey ovens, the piece argues a milder overall climate trend despite dramatic polar incursions. It highlights frost’s health benefits, warns of nuisance weather, and compares past winters to present anomalies while citing scientific prompts from Podet and others.
A London News report notes a Japanese army order restricting war journalists. Controlling officers grant visit locations and times, require travel tickets, and preapprove letters. Correspondents may only report past events and cannot reveal force strength or locations or timing of dispatches.
This historical recipe instructs patting two pounds of brown sugar with half a cup of water in a candy kettle until boiling then adding four ounces of butter. Boil until thick but not hard, flavor with lemon, pour into tins about one eighth inch thick, cool, cut into squares, and finish by tapping to loosen and breaking apart.
News from the North Side highlights a busy New Era shop with shawls hosiery and discount Titanic lines. Mrs Wetherholt is gravely ill with pneumonia while Miss Ellen Heartbury returns to teaching after mumps. A wreck on Tyler street follows a collision between Union Pacific passenger and Rock Island freight trains. The New Era advertises deep discounts on hats gloves underwear and blankets as well as a note on the Camden coal and a heavy man from the Santa Fe shops Amos Beeler and E P Ewart are mentioned. A postponed necktie party at Luken's opera house and plans for a Young Peoples union meeting appear, with Mia Dell Small expected home soon.
Ethyl Frances Beker lectures at Ober Ammergan and its Passion Play assisted by the Young Ladies O. B. club of the United Presbyterian church at Library hall February.
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