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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1896
Page
4
The fragment describes a newspaper delivery offer from the State Journal including carrier delivery, weekly rates, and service areas in Topeka and Kansas towns, with garbled wording suggesting a price and distribution system.
Regional brief notes that snow flurries are possible this afternoon or tonight with a colder trend toward Tuesday. The item comments on Topeka needs for a large auditorium, discusses political party patterns since 1873, debates on coinage and silver versus gold, and notes media market dynamics in New York.
The piece critiques Blue and Culp on veterans pensions, price increases, and silver coinage, arguing public sentiment and bankers would not benefit from silver, while Congressmen from Kansas are blamed for gold standard alignment. It laments Blue’s performance and accuses gold standard advocates of failed economics and demagoguery.
February 17 in a spoofed dispatch notes W E Granstona sending a refusal from Gladstone to Walter offering one world for a Cosmopolitan article. The reply cites inability to undertake new engagement due to prior work in Baud. Biarritz dated January 21, 1806.
Governor Morrill accepts the resignation of W C Don Carlos Phillips County probate judge and names Frank Strain a Republican farmer to fill the vacancy. Don Carlos suffered a derangement after a past attempt on his life, leading friends to push his resignation. the governor appointed the successor today. The state board of charities plans a new workhouse at the state blind asylum in Kansas City, a two story brick building with basement to cost 4335 dollars, contracted with H S Wheeler of Kansas City.
A historical piece extols fancy skating skill and balance as the core to mastery. It explains edge work, body alignment, and figure techniques from outer to inner edges, including the Maltese cross and Mercury lift, with guidance on equipment and blade care.
England and France have acknowledged Professor James Hall. Charles D. Walcott and Edward Seligman of Columbia University were named corresponding members. Professor Bell, director of the New York State Museum, born 1834 at Hingham Massachusetts, earned fame as a leading American scientist and author of Paleontology of New York and numerous pamphlets.
From Grand Rapids to Berlin, Edwin F. Uhl, promoter from assistant secretary of state to ambassador to Germany, will succeed the late Mr. Kanyon. A wealthy Michigander and former Grand Rapids mayor, Uhl brings notable political rise, bank directorships, and private income to support the Berlin posting despite embassy costs. He will be accompanied by his wife, daughter, and two sons. A bicycle jointless rim factory occupies two acres at Birmingham, England.
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