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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal offers delivery by carrier at 10 cents per week to Topeka and suburbs or at the same price in Kansas towns served by the carrier system. By mail rates are three months for 0.80 dollars and one year for 3.60 dollars. Weekly edition is 50 dollars per year.
Fragmentary OCR notes list January entries for SHURNAL and two months with misread dates. Mentions a signed item and averages for Tospec across unspecified months, offering little readable context or names.
Curoaco Kansas forecast notes fair conditions. The piece criticizes Congress for spending and tariff policy, cites a Hawaii cable bill, and discusses the Populists and government ownership of utilities. It cites the Ocala Demands and Cleveland’s currency policy, then mocks conditions of Prohibition law enforcement and rock pile penalties.
The Topska Stara Journal roasts state officers and legislators for attending a Lucien Baker banquet where 300 bottles of champagne were consumed. Reports say many felt the effects, challenging the idea that prohibition should apply only to others. The piece urges consistency and equal rights under the law.
The piece questions calls to modify the prohibitory liquor law arguing that supporters seek no change while opponents push easier enforcement. It notes penalties, rock pile fines, and buyer-vendor culpability as options, contending only universal abstinence would curb illegal sales and that buyers, if eradicated, remove vendors.
A compilation from Kansas towns notes a mastodon tooth found near Hollie, stable storerooms at Stafford, a thief in Concordia stealing harness, Gridley lacking a bank, and labor popular in college oratory. Sterling cemetery rules ban fences after death. Paola records 100 conversions at a revival. Clay Center high school menaces hair trends, Larned telegraph office jars freeze. Phillips county potatoes advertised without irrigation. Lebo hosts a $50 side horse race. Hutchinson gears for a musical jubilee. Butler county officers reward a gold watch for election praise. Manhattan churches rival over pew grates and furnaces. question lingers.
The piece profiles Jeter C. Pritchard of North Carolina, the youngest U.S. senator, noting his 1857 birth in Jonesboro Tennessee and a life starting with 10 cents and a chicken sandwich. It traces his career from printer's devil to law and politics, his Republican alignment, and early work in North Carolina, including state legislature service and the 1894 fusion scheme with Marion Butler.
Chicago to host a series of mass meetings organized by the Civic Federation to arouse civic patriotism and active participation in primaries and elections. Letters ask citizens to volunteer, indicate party affiliation, and allow assignment to local meeting venues in the city’s thirty four wards. A reading room is opened in Independence Reading Room. In Topeka a young lawyer keeps a revolver on his desk despite law’s majesty.
Secretary of State records show The Peerless Fence Machine company of Abilene with capital of 2500 and directors John B. Favors M Hothchilds G A Kabach Bam Sandia and Albert Lenz. Twelve mining firms organized in Kansas City Kansas each capitalized at 10000 to be named Columbus Oregon Saratoga Louisville Pittsburgh Buffalo Utah Arizona New Mexico Wyoming and California. Directors include L H Stevens F C Patherg L A Warner Walter Hendrix R B Thomas and GM Johnson. All HQs listed in Kansas City Kansas.
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