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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal surveys Kansas politics and national issues, noting Hoch Douglass and Hughes as former Republican leaders left unappointed. It discusses weather forecasts, taxation reform, liquor regulation experiments, and the Brooklyn streetcar strike, concluding with praise for Dr Price’s Baking Powder.
Readers encounter a collage of Kansan notes from Olathe to Marion, Chanute to Ellinwood. Items mention frozen oranges on markets, lead deposits east of Marion, help for shelving goods, local operas, social status anxieties, elocutionists, shakers offering cures, snow shovelers quarrels, millinery plans in Cottonwood Falls, fever scares and arrests, saloon-led license talk, and a humorous hog license tale from Ellinwood.
Special Correspondence from Washington reports Hon. William J. Bryan arguing there is little hope for near term uplift under gold standard policies. He warns prices will fall, investment stalls, and a global move to gold will not ease debt or employment. He predicts a prolonged downturn into 1898 with Congress unlikely to act decisively on bimetallism or silver.
The French society against tobacco notes regret that France has a president who is a confirmed smoker. M. Felix Faure smokes several cigars daily while others like Thiers and MacMahon previously quit or avoided tobacco.
Select large plump oysters wipe dry and season with salt and cayenne. Lay on a very hot gridiron and brown first on one side then the other. Remove to a heated dish and pour over melted butter.
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