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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1897
Page
4
Daily delivery by carrier and mail options span Topeka and Kansas towns served. Rates include three months by mail and one year for weekly editions. Address details point to a North American newspaper publisher and subscription offices, with terms noting permanent notices and advertising availability.
A distorted weather note for Chickee July 2 predicts locally thinner storms tonight. Goulet Saturday afternoon calls for fresh couta winds with unsettled conditions across the area.
Fragmented OCR outlines a debate over education quality in Johnson County. Ex governor Joha P Se J's delivered lecture is cited. critic argues the current system harms children. The piece condemns delays in school reform and urges a remedy to wasteful governance and ineffective policies.
A garbled OCR passage assembles assorted quotes and stray phrases from various sources. It mentions weather, politics, religion, and travel in a disjointed, historically styled collage with numerous misspellings and incomplete attributions. The text lacks a coherent event or clear lead.
A dense passage from the Atehiaen Globe describes a set of characters: a devoted but distant father, a resourceful brother, and a group of women in Atchison facing social expectations. The narrative contrasts pride, love, and social mobility with the town’s gaze on wealth, health, and overseas dreams, noting how residents seasonally chase status while managing daily life and distant ambitions.
The piece argues that June brought a large surplus in treasury receipts totaling 315 660 014, attributed to anticipated tariff changes. It asserts a general revival in business activity and stock market gains, predicting continued employment growth and increased consumer purchasing as investors expect currency and reserve questions to settle.
A Pillsburg Dispatch note discusses ethics in academia centered on Tent EW Bemis offered as Kansas State Agricultural College political economy chair. Bemis opposed corporate favoritism, while Bemis’s orthodox economics clash with state ownership views. The piece questions academic independence when funding and donor influence shape teaching, citing Bemis and Brown University as cases. It argues colleges should teach truth without compromising beliefs or accept compromised principles.
The essay argues true teaching rests on hearing all perspectives in economics. It contends long established economic principles are challenged by self interest and corporate privilege advocates. A fair inquiry into facts and legitimate conclusions is needed, free from fear or favoritism.
The article discusses voluntary death among Greek and Roman thinkers and later figures, arguing that many great men died by their own hand influenced by philosophical teaching. It notes a pattern of self-inflicted death tied to era, schooling, and social imitation, while acknowledging some crises stemmed from illness and despair rather than doctrine.
From the Chicago Times-Herald the Prince of Wales introduces a sleek black silk hat with a broad turned-up brim and exaggerated bell crown. The style echoes historic hats and may attract mature fashion followers while not suiting younger men.
The article traces advertising from Pompeii and Rome town criers to early newspapers. It notes that newspapers made advertising a growth industry, moving from luxury to necessity as readers encountered business promos at home. It highlights evolving methods and professionals in the field.
Report from Literal Maine describes a crowd of 3000 to 5000 migrant berry pickers seeking days work. Destitute families suffer cold and hunger, some trespass on farms to milk cows. Crowds gather for dancing halls shows and confidence games while some groups threaten berry crops, signaling growing social unrest and danger to the region.
A Chicago Tribune note questions a new approach in early education labeled Daly training. The piece suggests this method could threaten a traditional baby tale used in kindergarten instruction. The column hints at debates over curriculum and storytelling choices.
The piece debates reforming baby language teaching to emphasize phonics early, arguing that infant speech quirks fade with maturation. It cautions against harshly altering a beloved childhood charm and questions the practical gains of such methods.
Mes W P Pierce of Salina travels to Paris for health reasons and to secure funds to pay depositors of a failing Laune bank. The bank, under state bank commissioner, owes depositors 394505 7 overdrafts in New York and Kansas. Pierce plans to obtain money from his father at Dysart Iowa to cover these debts and avoid prosecution.
New Brunswick New Jersey July 2 visitors inspect government supervised macadam road on College avenue. Work progresses rapidly and should finish in two weeks. Plans include a short Farmers cheap tracedam section eight feet wide five inches deep six hundred feet long funded by Prof E B Withee of the New Jersey Experiment Station to illustrate farming benefits.
Indiana reports show farmers lost about ten million dollars in hogs and cattle to cholera last year. Gov. Mount opens talks with railroads and veterinary Prof. Bit ting to study disease causes and eradication over summer and fall. Luke Hayden, former Irish parliament member and Rosscommon mayor, dies at 47 in Ireland.
Cool breezes are welcome in summer as Milwaukee sits by Lake Michigan. The National Educational meeting runs July 6 to 9, 1897, with the Santa Fe house as the most comfortable choice. A Topeka contact writes about Garfield Park picnics, local band entertainment, and quality domestic services including Peerless Steam Laundry and Ralston Health Yeast.
New York July 2 congressman C H Grosvenor of Athens Ohio narrowly escaped a bunco scheme. A man calling himself M Montmorency Bell tried to swindle him at the Fifth Avenue hotel and in Central Park. The general was warned by a detective and later told friends this was not his first such encounter.
Denver reports the New York Herald telegraphs James Gordon Bennett Jr and E Monash of the Chamber of Commerce in June 1897. They discuss a brighter business outlook in Colorado due to gold output and crops, blaming delayed revival on government monometallic policy that harms farmers and overall prosperity.
A silver miniature model of the Bank of England, one foot square and to scale, was presented July 2 to Dumont Clarke, president of the American Exchange National Bank. The gift came from a former college friend who hopes New York will have a bank as mighty as the original. Tfany Co. of London artisans spent a year crafting the model, claimed as the only exact replica in existence.
An assorted page excerpt includes an advertisement for Cascarets Candy Cathartic a laundry service notice at Peerless Steam Laundry with addresses on West 4th Street and a notice offering printed copies of a federal court opinion Met Life Insurance Co vs Webb McNall. It also advertises a Santa Fe Route round trip fare up to July 6 with advertised pricing and conditions.
Arbutus Lake near Huguenot, 1600 feet long and five feet deep, swarms with turtles up to fifteen inches across. Work to clear the lake will start this week, lowering springs to three feet so turtles can be moved. Fishermen will trap turtles with sticks and hooks in flatboats. Garfield Park plans July 3 concerts and Miss'ouri Pacific offers July 3 4 rates. local notices include medical ad for Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
Lowell July 2 1888 Massachusetts mills close due to low prices and weak demand. 1900 workers laid off with weekly payroll about 14500 while dividend cuts and reduced rates signal broader textile downturn. An employee notes persistent overproduction and belief a company can stock goods without demand.
California for 22.50 from June 8 to July 3 inclusive the Santa Fe Route will sell flat class tickets to San Francisco and southern California for 22.60 same state to intermediate points and in reverse direction except that He kept will be to and from Colorado. Though made for Christian Endeavorers this race leans to all and affords a favorable opportunity to yield the Great Southwest. It is cool in July where Santa Fe crosses the plateaus and mountain ranges of Colorado New Mexico and Arizona the seate attractions are many. Through Pullman and tour kit sleepers on fastest daily train run to California. Apply to agent A T & S F Ry.
On account of the Fourth of July falling on Sunday the Union Barber Shop will renew the following times. Remains open until 11 p.m. Friday July 2 and closes at 1 p.m. Saturday July 3. Santa Fe Route offers one fare for trips within two hundred miles July 4 and 6 with limited tickets to July 6.
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