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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1895
Page
4
Terms of subscription list carrier delivery at 10 cents weekly to Topeka and suburbs or Kansas towns with carrier service. Mail rates shown: three months 0.80, six months 3.60, one year 3.60. Weekly edition 0.50 per year.
A sprawling, disjointed column reviews silver and gold coinage debates, tariff implications, and liquor enforcement. It cites Governor Morrill, Judge Martin, and Kansas sentiment. The piece critiques temperance reporting, rail fare fairness, and police enforcement, linking policy to public spending and corruption concerns.
The Topeka Globe and Atchison Capital trade barbs with Journal over editorials and alleged misrepresentations. The dispute centers on public sentiment versus law officials, with insults exchanged about language and motives in the ongoing feud among local newspapers.
A collage of Kansas notes from Arkansas City Parsons Ottawa Lawrence and more recounts colorful locals and events. Quirky quotes mention a sunbonneted Parsons shopper AE Skinner at Yale ranking seventh in a 251 class, and a reporter-turned-headline inventor in Lawrence. The Abilene paper battles contradictions in its war coverage. Sedgwick and Halstead donations follow a Wichita celebration band and a cypress of local oddities. Atchison screams of musicians drowned firemen’s shouts. The piece closes with an ad praising a lime-free Royal baking powder made from refined cream of tartar.
Adjutant General Schwartz orders disbanding of the First Infantry company at Tucson after a July Fourth bicycle club parade scandal. A general court martial is ordered for officers and NCOs who faced dishonorable discharge and rank reductions for leading the march.
A St. Petersburg sourced report to the Herald denies any Russian demand for territorial concessions tied to a Chinese loan. It states the loan negotiations were purely financial with no policy or political terms involved.
The Vanderbilt family led by Mr and Mrs Corceline Vanderbilt arrived to spend summer at the new Breakers estate in Newport. The house, valued at eight million, has not yet finished despite grand furnishings and costly tapestries masking unfinished rooms. Work paused after delays, with plaster walls exposed in several interiors.
All for Palma reports indicate Tomas Estrada Palma as the preferred successor to Jose Marti as civil representative. Delegates in major urban centers and in Mexico cast thousands of votes, telegraphed to Treasurer Benjamin J. Guertert to announce the uniform choice. Palma, a Cuban patriot, resides quietly in Orange County New York.
A London cable denies that the Prince of Wales will visit the United States. The private secretary says His royal highness cannot pay a visit and notes the Britannia or Valkyrie may race for the American cup. Francis Kyou signs the reply.
Kansas City liquor dealer W. H. Stack paid a $100 fine after pleading guilty in a Topeka police court special session. The watch on Kansas City firms on Union avenue targets illicit sales as Mick from Topeka took orders. The page blends stray clippings including a czar plot report, a joke exchange, medical quips, and poetry notes from various papers.
In Schweinmagen's gambling game a youngster blurts out that his father has four identical cards. The table erupts as players call bets, and Schweinmagen pockets the pot after the grocer's son loudly proclaims four of a kind. The grocer punishes the boy for lying.
In a Detroit Bree Press snippet a tramp questions a woman about her son. She reveals her son is not wandering but in a workhouse serving six months with over three months left. The visitor departs, noting the irony that the son now has steady work and decent clothes, hoping the man finds his way.
Over the Phone a pair discuss rushing to Milwaukee to marry before two justices of the peace cut marriage fees. Mamie questions the haste while George explains reduced costs spark the plan. The snippet ends with a wry note on divorce lawyer charges amid the scheme.
A collection of satirical lines from British and American papers. A lean government official comments on laziness and pay changes, a boy asks if starving children go to heaven, and a landlady defends an inept cook in a terse comic exchange.
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