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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1897
Page
7
A man recounts a tense encounter with a peculiar intruder in a brownstone tower room. The visitor reveals a dream of perpetual life through a grisly apparatus and a doomed plan, leading to a deadly struggle ending with the madman’s fall. The tale ends with a moral about perseverance and a quip about a bulldog Never say die.
North Alabama representative P H Timberlake travels to Montgomery to push a bill to ban tights bloomers and other attire deemed provocative. The proposal aims to distinguish dress by sex, drawing ridicule from the state press but Timberlake vows to continue fighting for passage while in office.
E. Deane, Wisconsin deep waterways commissioner, announces to the state legislature that the $3,000 line job should be abolished. He says duties are light and he cannot earn his salary, having written a few letters and made one Lake Superior trip last year. Deane, 51, ex-cashier of Racine Union National Bank and former Racine Journal owner, is famed for his anti sinecure stance and secret society ties. He was appointed to a position Upham could abolish, rather than sought by many politicians. The piece also notes touted speed records for a mile in a half minute and a balloon mile in 40 seconds.
The Tribune announces a new 16 page colored pictorial supplement named Twinkles to accompany Friday issues. Subscriptions rise to 2 dollars per year direct from The Tribune with Twinkles free for those paying full annual rate. non-remitters miss the supplement.
Scribner's Magazine outlines a feature rich 1897 plan including London seen by Charles Dana Gibson, a new Richard Harding Davis novel Soldiers of Fortune, illustrated business and travel articles, undergrad life at Yale Princeton Harvard, Japan and China since the war, The Unquiet Sex by Helen Watterson Moody, Howells story of a play, George W Cable short stories, travel guidance by Lewis Morris Richards, and an offer for a prepaid booklet.
A quotation highlights that Americans cannot inform themselves on public subjects as effectively as by reading the North American Review, noting its monthly influence on public discourse and awareness.
A historical description of The Review as a family magazine focusing on morals literature business finance and social municipal affairs. It highlights contributions by men and women shaping public opinion and notes the magazine’s unique timely stance on subjects in the public mind.
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