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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1895
Page
4
A short ad outlines subscription options for The State Journal Daily including carrier delivery, weekly and monthly terms, and mail rates. It lists three month and yearly price variants and mentions a weekly edition price.
A garbled aged column blends weather notes for Chicaso with census reliability, wage contrasts, and political debate. It cites Amos J. Stillwell murder rewards, Governor Merrill’s liquor enforcement, Atchison police orders, and comparisons to federal law, discussing public sentiment and law obedience.
A wave of prohibition talk travels from Atchison to Kansas City with Morarit’s law order stance and calls for renewed temperance action. The piece covers sample baking powder tests, Arkansas City sentiment against saloons, and a stream of local notes from Winfield to Beloit, including bicycle jokes, town population figures, and sporting trip advertisements. It also notes a Kansas City Gazette appearance, a Fort Riley wage remark, and rail fare offers via the Great Rock Island Route.
William Hope Harvey, author of Coin's Financial School, rose from a Punham County West Virginia farmer's son and schoolteacher to a Chicago publisher and finance educator. Born in Buffalo on August 16, he studied law, practiced in Cleveland and Gallipolis, then shifted to promoting multiple ventures before dedicating his life to currency reform. He produced Coin, Coin's Financial School, and other works, emphasizing accessible writing to reach readers. He is described as quick and restless, with a youthful appearance and plain dress.
A Scottish Review summary on The Boatie Rows by John Ewen, detailing his humble Montrose origins, rise as a hardware merchant, and a fortune of about 15000 pounds. It notes Ewen’s charitable aims to fund a hospital and education for poor boys, yet his daughter’s challenge to the will led to a Lords decision voiding the deed, revealing his churlish spitefulness.
Count Kalincky resigned recently and Count Agenor Goluchowski of Galicia was chosen successor in Vienna. The appointment raises questions about his ability to manage Austro Hungarian diplomacy, finances, and Bosnia Herzegovina affairs while facing delicate France relations and domestic confederation challenges.
A newspaper exchange quotes a well known bartender naming spring water as the best cool summer drink. It adds that for a stimulants option claret punch can be prepared by mixing claret with cracked ice sugar lemon and topping with orange pineapple lemon slices and strawberries to enjoy a long lingering nectar.
A humorous note from the Atchison Globe mocks a girl who must stay home due to rain while she protests to her mother about canceled picnic plans. The quip envisions men’ s imagined reaction to her moment of frustration.
The article notes Mexican Indian princes educated by Spaniards and viceroys descending from Montezuma. It highlights two widely separated U S points, Key West Florida and Alaska’s Analaska, 6 271 miles apart, yet a two cent stamp mails between them as easily as between New York and Brooklyn.
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