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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal daily edition offers mail and carrier delivery options. Carrier 10 cents, four weeks to Topeka or suburbs, same price in Kansas towns with carrier service. By mail three months for 90 cents. one year for 3.60 dollars.
The report proclaims the State Journal as the leading Kansas paper with the largest average daily circulation for summer months of 1864, highlighting Associated Press status and a full service press in the east. It notes political shifts in Kansas with business interests backing the Republican party and signals on judiciary staffing and state offices reform.
The piece argues that wage declines and failing purchasing power stem from a gold standard, urging silver coinage restoration. It critiques railroad passes and official mileage fraud, calling for publication of all passes monthly. It frames a broader shift in western civilization from paternalism to fraternal public ownership debates amid rising political polarity.
Kansas paragraphs present a string of brief items from Pleasanton and nearby towns. Segments mention four tailors ranking a man, a Wisconsin professor at Wesleyan College in Saling, and a plea about discouraging callers to spare diary entries. Other notes note local clubs, quick store hours, a Hochs, German couples in Marion, and a theft of 100 chickens and sorghum near Leavenworth.
A political scene baffles as new contenders arrive with few credentials or official passes. Analysts note scarcity of access badges and lack of familiar endorsements among rising figures, signaling tight security and uncertain introductions for these newcomers.
Editorial notes a sharp drop in railroad passes as lawmakers from across Kansas travel to Topeka. Vexed editors and officials report widespread pass refusals, fealty to anti pass pledges grows, and calls rise for a law making pass taking a misdemeanor to curb free transportation paid by railroads and taxpayers.
George Coulson, once a leading Republican in Kansas, has moved to Oklahoma and won a seat in the territorial senate from the tenth district. Republicans hold a large majority. a later inquiry questioned his status and residency as contested.
The secretary of state filed charters for several firms in Kansas. The Cummings Creamery of Cummings—$3000 stock. The Pioneer Cemetery Association of Graham County. The Overbrook Creamery of Overbrook—$10000 stock. The Fish Tower and Doyle Commission Company of Kansas City Kansas—$100000 stock. Directors names and capitals listed. Also notice of closing out stove lines at Manrox Saetpon, 102 Kansas Ave.
Hawaii’s post downfall scene saw two American adventurers linked to royalist schemes to restore Queen Liliuokalani. Stephen M Katzer, ex US Army corporal, and Claude H Wetmore, ex newspaper man, joined plots, spied on defenses, and left Hawaii or faced arrest as authorities intervened. Katzer sought gold and glory, Wetmore sought power, both exposed by the provisional government’s crackdown.
Alexander W. Terrell, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey, is a Virginian by birth and Texas by adoption. A cultured diplomat aged 69, he owns a large Austin residence and ranch, attended Missouri and Heidelberg, and speaks several languages. He has served as Texas senator and former state supreme court reporter, with a failed Senate bid against Reagan. He was appointed by Cleveland in 1893 to Constantinople, noted for a Booth poem praising Lincoln’s assassin long ago. His wealth enables him to support his office as diplomacy unfolds amid AI investigations.
A scrambledOCR passage describes various governors, detailing Boda the California Democrat elected after a long delay, his age, early schooling, Berkeley education, and service as U S commissioner. It notes his rise from local politics to Congress in 1882 and mentions McIntire in Colorado, a Yale graduate and lawyer with farming ties, plus regional ties to Pennsylvania and Colorado.
A composite of light literary bits and society chatter. Dialogues reveal engagements, family intrigues, and ironic banter. Short sketches include Beattie and Beattie’s mother plot, a farcical lunch caper, and miscellaneous jokes from several U.S. papers.
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