State Journal Leased Wire Realities and Royal News
Full leased wire report from the Associated Press covers the State Journal's wire service. Topics include Prince Henry, Attorney General Snort, Jake Gates, a proposed railroad to the Persian Gulf, Schwab and a yacht named Shamrock, Ben Butler, the Midway at the St Louis fair, Miss Stone ransom, and Carnegie remarks on the Nicaragua Panama canal.
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TEE Associated Press
Pring Art
terBoon
State Journal
Snort
Mr. Schwab
Jake IV
Gates
The
Baephorus
Persian Gulf
Phineas Pnes
Kansas Day banquet signals new political alliances in Topeka
The Kansas Day banquet is described as a key early year event that will unveil new political alignments. Republicans anticipate a large turnout of top figures including a West Point? senator and several congressmen, with state officials and many aspiring leaders, promising intense behind the scenes maneuvering and whispered intrigue.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Usen
Sil
Topeka
Aflther
Spread of business district on Jackson street
The article notes Kansas Avenue is crowded as a central business district and suggests Jackson Street, from Fifth to Eighth Avenues and Sixth Avenue from Quincy to Van Buren, could form a new business core. It argues firms hesitate to move alone and that establishing momentum could attract larger houses to Jackson Street, replacing former Kansas Avenue wholesale activity.
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Kaneas Avenue
Alors
Jackson and
Quincy Streets
Fifth Street
Eighth Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Quinncy Street
van Buren
Eixth Avenue
Iacatiusiness
Jackson Street
Kansas Avenus
Kansas Avenue
Jacksontreet
Opposition to the manual training plan reframed by labor groups
A column argues against abolishing manual training and praises modern methods after observers from unions visit first grade rooms and a high school shop. They report reading spelling and number work, visual teaching, and practical crafts as effective. The piece notes a broader debate about progress versus tradition and criticizes anti-foreign bias.
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St. Paul Dispatch
Chicago
Thore Innova
Federation of Labor
Cigarmaxers' Union
Boxmaker and Lawyers' Union
Sigarmakers’ Union Salt
Municipal Problems In Topeka Court Of Finance
The article praises Albert Parker as a capable city financier and urged prudent cost cuts, license reform, and minimal police court expenses amid Topeka’s worsening debt. It criticizes Hughes' administration for spending and portends Parker as a stabilizing choice in municipal affairs.
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St. Topeka
Albert Parker
Hughes
Col. Hughes
State Journal
Col. Mughes
Tooeka
Supreme Court
Parker
Invasion of the Trolley Spreads to the Holy Land
A Cleveland company plans to build trolley lines in the Holy Land and extend to Mecca for pilgrims, turning sacred sites into a modern transport route. The piece satirically laments American capital’s reach while noting logistical and cultural frictions in this imagined venture.
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Hevent Dispatches
Cleveland
Ohio
Holy Land
Meroa
Mahomet
Saa of
Galilee
Anon
Jericho
Bashan
Joppa
Prophets Tomb
Damascus
Kerak
Dan
Beersheba
Joseph
Egypt
Unproductive Zionist Convention in Basel
A Basel Zionist congress aimed at restoring Jewish settlement to Palestine proved largely impractical. The piece criticizes US Jewish support and questions why a dispersed people with long histories elsewhere should return to a land with limited prospects, suggesting the endeavor serves fad ends rather than real aims.
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Basel
Switzerland
Palestine
United States
Holy Land
Emigration Talk From a Past Era on Palestine and Migration
The text discusses emigration to Palestine, noting perceived religious and political tensions. It argues that Palestine offers no unique lure for migrants, suggesting Kansas as a better commercial option, and critiques the notion of returning Jews to Palestine as impractical while citing historical unrest and attitudes toward Zionist plans. It also references Lord Salisbury and Rosebery on Boer war peace overtures amid ongoing speculation.
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Lord Salisbury
Rosebery
Jeader
Atchison Globe Digest of Local Quips and Quirks
A column of humorous vignettes and puns from Atchison. It notes high egg prices, New Year contrasts, social quirks, a proposed Sphinx club, and light domestic observations about women, men, and family life in the community.
Pensions The silver linings of war clouds
A compact column from Chicago News surveys social shade and satire on domestic life and finances. It notes how wartime pensions glitter but do not erase troubles, mocks cash focus in business, and reflects on manners, love, and the perils of financial improvidence in a brisk, opinionated tone.
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Prom
Chicago News
Jonsh
Staforda
Reflections on life and marriage hidden in a circa scene
A quirky reflection piece explores uncertain love, marriage, and social decorum. It muses on money, artistry, and the servant girl problem, noting how an artist's wife posing can expose the disagreeable truths we should forget. A lingering joke links golf and club foot as a comic aside.
Fragmented Humorous Quotations and Vignettes
A collage of witty lines and jokes. The speakers range from a Manayunk Philosopher to Mrs. Robbies and Silicus, with quips on work, debt, prudent costs, weather forecasts, marriage, and a stock exchange surgery joke. Includes a vaariety of tag lines about mermaids, prodigal sons, birthdays, and a worn vineyard lament.
Book Notes on New Novels and Authors in Harper’s Era
A London publisher cites Burford Delannoy and Leck & Co praising mystery and crime novels. John Luther Long’s Madame Butterfly is noted with operatic adaptation plans, while Philip Merrill Michels is highlighted for a rare short story in Harper’s Magazine. Esther Mather by Exama Louise Orcutta is praised for modern tone and New England setting, with focus on its heroine’s domestic ideal and travel to California. The piece surveys The Grattan Ocean edition, remarks on New York politics, and commends Sherman’s civic analysis as a readable reform study.
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Curtis Waggs-Smith
Bra ‘Ward
Leck & Co
London
Burford Delannoy
John Luther Long
Belageo
Fascoon & Tong
Rome
Madame Butterfy i
Harper‘ Magazine
Philip Merrill Michels
Jules Verne
Tink
Mgr. Michels
Harper
Esther Mather
Exama Louise Orcutta
New England
Bether Mather
New York
California
Grattan Ocean
New York Board of Alidermen
Tecumseh Sherman
Sherman
Pais
Conenn
York Tribune Almans
Papa
Eee
World Almanac featured in State Journal office
The New York World Almanac and Encyclopedia for 1620 pages has reached the State Journal office. It promises condensed yet accessible statistics and information on world events, with a series of descriptive pages on various states by editors including Charles Moreau Harger and William Allen White for McClure's in February.
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New York World Almanac
Offive
United States
Mall
Atlantic Monthly
Kansas
Charles Moreau
Harger
Abilens
William Allen ‘White
Cleveland
Young Girl Rants Away From Home to Be Actress
Pittsboro reports the New York visit of Jean Kirk Barr fifteen year old daughter of Dr. John A Barr of McKees Rocks. She was arraigned in Jefferson Market police court and committed to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children until her father arrives. A telegram says she ran away January 7 with a schoolmate carrying 100 dollars, stayed at Hotel Jefferson under the name Dora Hurford, and spent time visiting theaters seeking an engagement while losing 48 dollars. She will be held until her father arrives.
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Pittsboro
New York
Jean Kirk Barr
John A. Barr
McKees Rocks
Jefferson Market
Ig Ae
Asis Aternoon
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Chartiers Street
Mildree Miller
Jefferson
Dora Hurford
Mildred
Harlem
Society For the Creation
Burr
Lions for Mr. Prick
New York sculptor Phimister Brower opens a studio and works on two six foot lions for the Frick building in Pittsburgh. The figures draw on Central Park studies and aim to be striking additions to the zoo and public collections.
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New York
A. Phimister Browtor
Frick
Pittsburg
Kelene
Proctor
Central Park
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Ailce
Tita
Miss Stone
William McKinney
Senate
House of Representatives
Bilaine
Menory Af Garfeld
St Louis
Missouri
Andrew Carnegie
Chicago Times-Herald
Hanna
Nicaragua
Carnegie
Panama
the Journal of Commerce
Turkey
Jerusalem
GLOBE
Atchison Globe
Germany
Atchison
Atchisen
New York Times
Fecode
Silicus
Blobbs
Lars
Stock Exchange
Tammy
Pommy
Tommy
Hook
Nye
Sam
Willie C ‘Green
Will Green
Bull
C. Mever & CO
Baltimore
Kellam's
LIONS
MR. Prick
Binca
G. W. Reed
S. Watts
General Merchandise
Topeka Kansas
Horner Coal CO
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