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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1904
Page
5
A garbled AP dispatch fragment covers various topics including naval news, political commentary, and early 20th century trade figures. It touches Admiral Alexieff, British strategy, elections, beverage market notes, and grain shipments with numeric totals for cities like Portland Boston New York Philadelphia and Baltimore. It references ongoing wars and calls attention to carrier salaries and government pay scales.
A fragmented letter by Hoeh argues party methods over individual candidates. He criticizes candidate character as irrelevant to caucus outcomes and discusses influences on Marion County politics, including references to Burton, Governor Bailey, and state finances. The piece defends formal methods in elections and critiques dishonesty.
A damaged line of OCR text discusses attempts to organize a rump county committee to override the will of the community. It references a person or group named Ai and Hoch and questions the approbation of methods used, showing internal disagreement and implied political maneuvering.
A serialized reflection on the Russian Japanese war and its appeal to American readers in Topeka Kansas. The piece argues most Americans side with Japan, questions why war captures public interest, and contends people enjoy conflict more than rational pacific settlement. It critiques leadership, voters, and party dynamics, noting fear and ambition fuel support for war.
A long editorial discusses poet Thomas Brower Peacocke and his revival of dramatic verses from Kannas City. It critiques liberal church theater relations, cites a Chicago Methodist clash over sympathy for theater victims, and questions religious leaders guiding cultural life. The piece laments sectarian limits on art and highlights calls to duty and public responsibility in entertainment.
The piece argues broad American sympathy for Japan over Russia amid the Japan Aureia war, framing it as a hard business choice tied to expanding U S trade. It cites historical sentiment, political contrasts, and the pursuit of a vast market in the Orient, plus figures on grain shipments and wheat trade in 1900s America. It references rail and port logistics and changes in weekly grain movement and flour shipments.
The Department of Commerce and Labor through its Bureau of Statistics reports 1903 livestock and grain movements. Hogs at 142 markets averaged $6.28 per hundred. cattle and pork prices rose versus 1902. Interior markets showed the dominant price trend, with total live stock receipts at five markets totaling 2587,001 head in 1903, up from 1902. Wheat receipts across eight interior markets for the crop year to Jan 1, 1904 reached 167,561,285 bushels.
Kansas newspapers report rising anti Tom Kelly sentiment as reformers demand a clean state treasury and replace Kelly with Hoch. Factional strife within the Republican party centers on Governor Bailey and the Hoch camp, with calls for Kelly to withdraw and Hoch to be renominated.
The Brook county editor attacks W. J. Kelly amid cross county resentment over renomination. Critics argue Kelly’s honesty is questioned by many while supporters fault others for backing him. The piece reviews newspaper stances and calls for party purity and accountability.
A quirky column lists local curiosities and oddities from across Kansas. Entries include a measles trust at Alta, a gas enterprise in Strong City, a hog in Westmoreland, a Clyde physician profiting from sore throats, a resigning truancy officer in Sumner County, swift hockey, political chatter on Governor Bulley, talk of Ten Stights in Barroom, a Beloi owner with 23 chicks, long dry spells at Preston, brave meadow larks in Phillips counts, two Mormon elders spreading doctrines in Pratt County, a Randolph hunter and a giant eagle, a Waterville house partition revealing Paradise Lost, a 1800s edition found, Bamboo poles at the Manhattan World’s Fair, and a quip about living in Japan.
A quirky column notes money to be made by avoiding stock speculation and comments on social circles. It implies advice on conduct in company, and humor about the dynamics of women and a mother-in-law figure. The piece blends light satire with social observation.
A playful column of light verse and social quips on Valentine themes witty lines about love, bills, honesty, free speech, fashion, poets, and marriage woven with humorous misdirections and slang. The fragment hints at wedding gossip and quirky observations with local flavor.
Fragmentary column notes cover local mischief, birthday jokes, debates on marriage ages, and sly anecdotes. The text references a town marshal, Friday unlucky, Charley Styles birthday, and social topics about women, love, and courtship. Also mentions a private room behind a bunk and a vague warning about the dead returning.
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