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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1897
Page
4
The Topeka Daily State Journal reports a sworn detailed circulation statement showing it exceeds all Topeka dailies. The paper grew from six to seven columns, installed Linotype machines, and operates a new state parish model home building with fast web press. It lists 43 carriers earning over a yearly sum and provides exact daily circulation figures to advertisers.
The notes show early newspaper circulation growth from 1835 to 1891. It lists 800 copies on January 1, 1835 and quotes a daily average of 3,125 for 1891, with an implied comparison to daily averages for 1862. The fragment records growth over decades in print run figures.
The Mall announces a weekly edition and a yearly option with three months and one year terms. By Mall, weekly edition, one year.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rules that mandatory vaccination by the state health board is unconstitutional. The Texas Supreme Court finds the anti trust law unconstitutional. The writer argues for the people to have initiative and referendum to curb trusts and vaccination policies, criticizing slow constitutional amendment and noting growing sentiment for direct popular control. The piece concludes that justice, right, and freedom justify exploring such reforms.
Chicago becomes central hub for taro flour imports from Fiji Islands. Ten tons of taro root arrived in San Francisco and were sent to Chicago for general use touted as a delicate nourishing health food for children. Described production methods from Honolulu and uses in both raw forms and with water to make a paste.
A Knoxville correspondent shares a nine month Europe trip costing about 650 dollars for two, averaging under 40 dollars a month each. They describe traveling second and third class, renting furnished rooms, and cooking with an old stove to cut costs. They advise low hotel costs, simple meals, and mixing with locals for richer experience at lower expense.
Excerpts discuss ethics as human welfare and perfecting humanity. The speaker argues ethics entails a broad duty beyond rules, expanding with knowledge and opportunity, and justifies an ethical movement separate from religion and science as its instructor.
A Western observer denounces New York’s yellow kid coverage as infantile. The writer condemns the New York Journal and World as puerile sensationalism and mocks New Yorkers for failing to grasp the alleged “sliver agitation” in the West. The piece calls for a real man from the West to confront New York’s dollhouse journalism.
The article extols the western woman as energetic, industrious, and steering her own fate. She balances home life with work, pursues careers beyond domestic roles, and drives settlement by teaching, clerical work, or entrepreneurship as education and opportunity expand.
The Journal attacks Congressman Calderhead, contrasting its sharp tone with praise from the Kansan Republican press. It portrays Calderhead as lacking genuine wisdom until risk and loss compel him to act, critiquing the influence of a plutocratic system on political virtue.
San Francisco February 24 The arrangement committee for the Christian Endeavor convention reports a large chorus of several thousand voices to be joined by an orchestra of over 100 pieces for a grand festival concert in Mechanics Pavilion the Tuesday before the meeting A circular for society presidents will detail the musical plan and a chorus book will be issued with a deposit refunded on return Also pulpits will be supplied by world renowned speakers and gasingments to local pulpits are to be managed by Rev Wm Rader California Limited trains advertise routes and schedules via Santa Fe with through sleepers and Homeseekers car via the same line
Carson City Nev Feb 4 A clash over a squaw between two white boys and a Piute buck led to fears of violence in the Mason Valley. Messages to the governor urged rapid troop deployment as Piute threats were reported. officials prepared militia and muskets while denying confirmed plans for immediate action. The Piute population in the Walker Lake and Pyramill areas totals around 420, with numbers likely to grow if hostilities erupt.
In a New York supreme court decree, deeds of trust by Anita McCormick before marriage to Emmons Blaine are set aside as misapprehended. The case traces family Frictions within the McCormick Harvesting Machine company, with trustees named as her brother Cyrus Hale McCormick Jr and uncle Eldridge M Fowler. Emmons Blaine died soon after, and proceedings followed to realign property interests for Anita and her children.
William Davenport a young colored man died at City Hospital after a traveling salesman paid for drinks in a Yandes Street saloon. Davenport gulped two small beers then whisky to the brim amid a group of colored men, collapsed, and died after lingering in a semi conscious state.
Joliet Illinois February 4 A mortgage for 50 dollars is filed in the recorder s office in favor of Russell Sage New York millionaire. The loan to Elizur Sage is evidenced by a promissory note due May 10 1597 at per cent interest secured by a mortgage on Elizur Sage s Channahon home stead. The note and mortgage will be sent to Mr Sage in New York. Also Charles B McCroy surrendered to a United States Marshal in San Francisco February 24 He was wanted in Michigan for embezzling 3000 from the Second National Bank of Bay City He has been traveling around the world since and says the money has been spent.
In Columbus common pleas court Judge D C Badger ordered Patrick McGraw, plaintiff seeking 10 008 in damages from John R Hughes, to submit to X ray examination to determine the fractures he says resulted from an elevator break in owned Hughes.
The Wichita Eagle business manager discusses Kansas prospects and national press attitudes while Kansas leaders claim a prosperous year. Separately, Harland and Wolff to build a record long twin screw mail and passenger steamer for the White Star Line, aiming for daylight arrivals in New York and Liverpool and a 704 foot length.
Washington Feb 24 General Alger will move into the Lamont home left vacant by the Lamonts four years residents until September. The house remains furnished and near the White House and War Department for official entertaining with upper floors commodious and a rear balcony. Secretary and Mrs Lamont depart for Florida with their family in March. Victoria Arrives in London from Osborne and the Buckinghham Palace drawing room opens tomorrow drawing immense crowds.
Inaugural Rock Island Route sells round trip tickets at one fare. Details show gate prices, stations in Kansas and Indiana, contact routes and agents. Mr Anthony ex postmaster Promise City listed as agent. Mystic Cure mentioned in sales notes.
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