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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1895
Page
4
The notice lists delivery prices for Topeka and suburbs and Kansas towns, with weekly and monthly mail rates. It specifies three month and annual mail terms, and a separate weekly edition price per year. Prices noted include 3.00 for three months and 3.60 for annual mail, along with a weekly edition rate of 60 cents.
The text notes three dull summer months in Idjt showing an increase of over fifty percent in a single year, indicating a surprising rise during a typically slow season. Some details are unclear but the core fact is a substantial year over year growth in the season.
A set of proposals aims to curb office proliferation and reform pay for federal court clerks while warning against harsh penalties. Edward Quigley’s New York forgery sentencing highlights crime suppression ideas. The Abilene Dispatch praises the Topeka State Journal as influential and criticizes free transportation abuses by railways.
The article argues it is not the business of railways as corporations to fund churches missions or charitable institutions and that relations with the public should follow pure business principles. It criticizes a recent hold up by the city mayor on a major railway and questions who bears greater guilt for forced transportation.
The legislature faces a $73,000 deficit for public printing as costs stay high despite drops in wheat and livestock. Advocates argue for efficient management, fixed salaries, and modern plant leasing, while criticizing current staff incentives and profits.
A jumble of small notices from Graham county to Sumner and beyond records odd local happenings. Taxpayers face tobacco bans, rabbit control debates, and resubmission efforts. towns contend with entertainments, marriages, and civic questions as editors report on local quirks and public issues.
A survey of state house leaders shows Hamilton Fish of New York and Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut among prominent speakers, with many others from Massachusetts to Missouri highlighted for social standing, career paths, and Civil War service in a broad portrait of 19th century legistature leadership.
The town of Huntingdon Pennsylvania was named in honor of the Countess of Huntingdon, a notable eighteenth century benefactor to the University of Pennsylvania. Provost William Smith founded the settlement in 1777 and honored the patron in its naming.
Sergius Stepinsky, noted Russian radical, argues the czar will avoid a major war while the empire remains impoverished. He contends that widespread poverty will deter aggression, keeping Russia at peace despite potential tensions.
Horace Chilton rose from a printer's devil at sixteen to U S senator after a long career in law and politics in Texas. Born near Tyler in 1841, he saved enough to study, built a Tyler newspaper, supported his family, studied law, and served as assistant district attorney before entering politics. He backed Hogg, served as governor’s appointee, and sat in the Senate from 1891 to 1892, noted as Texas's first native-born senator and a strong advocate of silver coinage.
Mary Baker Eddy founder of Christian Science and author of its key text led a movement that grew to about 100000 adherents. A new Boston fireproof church costing 250000 was financed nationwide by supporters. Eddy's life included marriages, a son, and a shift from medicine to spiritual healing based on mind over body. The church counts around 4000 members with 800 in Boston. Also note Winslow’s Soothing Syrup advertised for teething and diarrhea.
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