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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1895
Page
7
An early Topeka newspaper fragment markets real estate and auction sales with mentions of rents, loans on real estate, and banking services. The garbled text references lenders, discounts, overdrafts, and certificates, as well as shoe and retail notes, reflecting a general classified ad section.
First published January 2 1895 in the Beka State Journal. Official notice by Frank Herald Commissioner of Zisctions detailing precinct boundaries in First to Fifth wards and charges to regulate voter registration elections and the appointment of a Commissioner of Elections. Includes description of precincts by streets and avenues and references to Metscer and Meisner additions. Also notes a school of dancing at 23 Jackson Street with class times and invitations.
Rock Island announces a Home Seekers' Excursion with round trip tickets at first class fare plus $2 to multiple western and southern states. Tickets valid returning in 20 days with stopover privileges. for details contact H O Garver City Ticket Agent and Wasson Cromweny at North Topeka P O First and Kansas avenues.
January 25 Walmseron. The amended financial plan being shaped by Springer Cox and banking committee with Secretary Carlisle includes silver coinage and silver certificates in 1 2 and 3 dollars backed by treasury bellion seigniorage. It would back coins with gold and adjust bank reserves to ease gold raids, potentially issuing low rate bonds to protect the treasury.
Surface indicators show the electric street railway strike may end soon. Brooklyn Heights Railway Co is under a mandamus suit from shopkeeper Joseph Loader. Justice Gaynor rules the firm failed its public obligations and must man its cars as fully as needed. Court to decide if writ becomes mandatory. Traffic remains limited tonight.
A bill to form the National Central Railway Company includes Chicago figures and John Bell of Benton Harbor. It would build and run a continuous line from New York area to San Francisco along the shortest practical route, with rights to lease existing lines. The United States would guarantee 3 percent interest on bonds issued by the company.
Representative McMillin of Tennessee reports to Secretary Carlisle that administration optimism on revenue growth rests on a long discussion. The statement is the first authentic glimpse of the administration’s view, predicting income tax receipts to greatly exceed prior estimates by the department.
Indignation rises as Colonel Hawkins, Fort Leavenworth commandant, bluntly declines participation in the ceremony honoring Senator Lucien Baker. He says he is not a saver of politicians and dismisses the event’s pomp.
Dr. Parkhurst speaks at the Auditorium urging the Civil Federation of Chicago to win broad backing across all classes. He stresses appealing to the poor and distressed, not just the policy, to create a city with lower taxes and honest governance. He warns against overemphasis on respectability and calls for transparency to unite rich and poor.
Washington January 25 The drive to end fee based pay for U S court officers gains momentum as Congress weighs salaried compensation for marshals district attorneys clerks and commissioners Attorney General Olney notes loopholes allow clerks up to ten thousand dollars yearly and some district attorneys near twenty thousand The House bill proposes fixed salaries for marshals and district attorneys with clerks salaries set by the attorney general to a defined maximum.
In Starke Washington January 25 a Stevan and Post mill engineer Horatio A Stetson suffered a horrific accidental injury when a feed belt dislodged and his head was cut by a rip saw. His brother Leroy aided and the man survived the trephining operation and remained fully conscious with appetite intact despite injuries.
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