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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal outlines carrier delivery seven days a week in Topeka and surrounding towns with a weekly rate of five dollars and ninety cents. Mail options include three months for five ninety and one year for two hundred dollars.
The article argues a Hawaii city court would reduce waste and litigation while maintaining civilized respect. It notes railroads offer to settle debt, discusses state aid ideas for Navajo Indians and critiques paternalism toward white citizens, asking about irrigation projects in the West and Nebraska.
Tax gold pirates and the administration grow alarmed by methods pushing the country to a silver basis. Senator Hill, Cleveland's ally, introduces a senate resolution to redeem bonds issued as gold bonds in gold if gold and silver coin parts diverge, exposing his long staged silver stance.
The Pittsburg Dispatch argues the law requires re issuing notes but not immediate blanket re issuance. It questions whether any urgent duty exists to distribute surplus notes and warns against using funds not belonging to the treasury. It contends the notes belong to the loan fund and must be re issued only as needed. It criticizes the president and secretary of the treasury for alleged deception and notes a looming gold reserve issue.
A Dunkard church group from Place Illinois donated a carload of corn flour and clothing sent to Decatur re ground into meal and re shipped to Colby Kansas for 200 destitute families. 1187 parents fed 200 families with 804 veterans in Piatt county ensuring only worthy recipients. $45.16 allocated this week to buy seed for distribution.
A mosaic of small town items from Kansas highlights gossip on Prohibition, marriages, debts, and local oddities. Notes include Osawatomie’s youths with Paola girls, a Horton wedding costing $800, provision shipments to Gray county destitute, and a special grand jury in Rego county. Streetcars at Arkansas City end, public moral talk, hog cholera fears, and local quips on widows and jewelry shops frame a lively but fragmentary page.
A list of newly chartered Kansas firms includes The Commoner Publishing company of Wichita with 7000 dollars capital and named directors. The Wichita County Agricultural Society of Scoti, Holton Delvins Park amusement venture, Tyro Union Hall company, Columbian Manufacturing of McPherson, Wichita Loan and Trust, Hallowell Investment, and The People’s Publishing company of Topeka. The Shawnee Drumbeat weekly is to be published by the latter with Populist alignment.
Despite snow and wind Silver Lake held a grand G A R ball with Col D F Wyatt of Topeka and Commander H Miller hosting. Sons of Veterans marched in drill, veterans recalled prison memories, and local youths performed declamations songs and violin pieces in a lively town event.
Special correspondence from New York argues comic valentines dominate February spending with 25,000,000 copies annually and $250,000 in value. It credits Howard and Rigney as the artist and rhymster behind 26 million in sales, made at McLaughlin Bros. Williamsburg plant, critiquing the social harm while noting the public demand and regional variations.
A 15 minute apparently dead drowning case is revived by Dr de Baun using a rubber tube to force air into the lungs. After sustained artificial inspiration the chest contracts and breathing becomes natural, saving the child’s life.
The Wembley Park project, meant to soar above the Eiffel Tower, risks bankruptcy after spending $500,000 with the first platform unfinished. An additional $150,000 has been approved to raise the height by 155 feet. Costs of spring and autumn maneuvers across Europe total over 10,000,000.
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