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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1900
Page
4
A scanned page fragment from the Topeka State Journal covers editorial opinions on politics and public policy, mentions the ongoing presidential race and party dynamics, notes calls for reform and municipal employment oversight, and includes social snippets and cultural commentary from the period. The text references figures and entities in a broad civic context, including newspaper staffers and public figures.
A Seattle Times summary argues that high tariffs on wood pulp and newspaper paper inflate costs for publishers. It contends American print paper is largely wood pulp and that tariffs raise consumer prices, urging Congress to repeal the tariff to aid about twenty thousand publishers nationwide.
The passage mutters about truth and brevity with garbled lines. It hints at social habits church attendance races fashion and trust in a plodding jumble of phrases.
A garbled prose fragment discusses bachelor buttons, a widow, hotel life, and children's role as mirrors of society. It hints at engagement etiquette and a woman's change in behavior after betrothal, with scattered references to shirts, elbows, and observed attentions.
County superintendents reported to the state that Kannas has a rising school population with a year earlier total of 87 963. The Shawnee nation area shows 14 236, while other counties list varying totals. The data cover white children and overall school enrollment across districts with figures for males and ages.
A fragmentary verse memorial captures Boer and British tensions amid desert hardship. It reflects prayerful lines, stark landscape, and the vow of endurance and fidelity to country. The speaker laments bloodshed while praising courage, faith, and the heavy burden of war.
Chicago attorney Fred Roe Pratt and his twin Frank Pay Pratt were famed as twins with a purported telepathic link. Fred died in Manila a few days earlier, and Frank reported a premonition confirming his brother’s death. The brothers claimed their bond existed since infancy despite being separated by 19,000 miles.
Readable fragments report a fire near Sher Sty affecting a Turkish engineering facility and prompting wage talks with workers. No further specifics on persons, dates, or organizations are clear in the text.
A Washington dispatch reports deep splits among Senate Republicans over McKinley’s Philippines stance. The president favors permanent retention while some senators resist declaring future policy, debating whether to pledge future sovereignty or keep options open as Congress weighs expansion and colonial questions.
Experience shows that good clothes last, good food nourishes, and effective medicine cures. Hood's Sarsaparilla is claimed to be the best medicine money can buy for lasting health, curing when others fail. A testimonial notes improved strength and appetite after using Hood's products.
Debates in Congress reflect split Democratic and Republican views on a Bacon revolution and a potential American protectorate in the Philippines. Republicans waver over Spooner bill control by the executive while Puerto Rico tariff plans face resistance and questions of territorial status and eventual statehood.
The Republican state central committee set a single state convention for May 46 in Topeka to nominate the state ticket and choose delegates to the national convention. Judge Francis C. Price of Ashland resigned from the committee for the Thirty first district. W J Fitzgerald was named price. The report lists numerous district members and associates across Kansas, including D R Anthony Jr Leavenworth and D W Mulvane Topeka, with several others from towns like Pleasanton Fredonia Norton and Dodge City. The secretary Frank L Brows is not a member.
Harry W. Frost ex editor now Detroit plant manager and organizer of the Kansas Day banquet visits Topeka. He was to be guest of honor at Kansan Day banquet and last edited for Topeka. contrasts with Chicago rail news where it cites exaggeration about rail layoffs and a federal anti trust ruling in Illinois.
Editor E W Howe proposes six lay sermons printed in papers challenging Rev C M Sheldon on how Jesus would preach in Topeka. The Globe lampoons clergy faults while Howe to write daily sermons for the Topeka Journal during Sheldon week, arguing Jesus taught simple humanity not church doctrine.
Former Secretary of State W B Bush arrives in Topeka to press Bank Commissioner Breidenthal to run for governor. He advocates Breidenthal despite Breidenthal’s claimed reluctance, arguing his honesty and broad appeal could unite fusion forces and attract business voters. Bush plans to return to Fort Scott tonight.
In Leavenworth Washington on January 23 the house advanced a bill to appropriate sixty thousand dollars for a military hospital at Fort Leavenworth. The bill also enacted stricter conduct rules for officers and pilots and set penalties for violations while the session began discussing reorganizing and improving the United States Weather Bureau.
Fragmentary dispatch lists War Department items from Manila and Washington. Report mentions a rescued spaniel and a Major seen in northern Luzon with unclear date. Minor notices reference a councilman and late reflection from a city ward.
Major T J Anderson travels to Salina this afternoon to attend the funeral of Jacob DeWitt who died yesterday and will be buried tomorrow DeWitt a prominent Mason and former official of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar will be honored by fellow Masons including A K Wilson and Wine Shaversi with other delegates from across the state expected to attend.
Police raided joints on East Sixth Street and Kankas Avenue arresting Frank Murphy W B Smith Fritz Durelit Paul Noskes aged 19 and Frank Bates Royal Tallima hall. Joint fixtures were confiscated and warrants cited locations and barholders. A maid fled the back door as officers entered without a warrant for her.
For years W C Illatte served as chief clerk in the office of the division superintendent of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe road at Temple Texas. The notice mentions a move from Marceline Missouri to Topeka and a February departure, indicating a transfer or retirement amid departmental changes.
Stadelph Nunne macher, head of the real estate department at Pabst Brewing, died today in Milwaukee after an appendicitis operation. He was the son-in-law of Capt. Frederick Pabst, with Tun. 20 reported as the date.
A garbled OCR portion discusses spectacles and court scrutiny, noting many people avoiding eye tests and the fear of glare or stench. The text references a faulty lens industry portrayal, with vague mentions of suspects and a 41 feet attestation to fat frames, though details are obscured.
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