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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1903
Page
4
The State Journal prints wire copy from the Associated Press about a leased wire transfer by the evening edition. The report references a news item bound over wires and mentions a veritable flotilla of ships and boats in an afternoon publication.
Readers may have the State Journal mailed daily to any address at thirty cents a month during summer. Changes of address available. The notice presents the paper as a daily letter from home while away. Also includes scattered items on politics, finance, and scholarships from Oxford.
Fragmentary text discusses pending nationwide electric trolley railways and reactions from railway parties. It hints at opposition to new lines and later calls for railway construction, phrased in a historical newspaper voice.
The piece analyzes how Kansans reacted to flood relief and the New York Times critique of state independence. It argues Kansans were capable of self help, wary of overreliance on external funds, and cautions regulators to avoid undermining local charity by overreaching with outside aid. It notes the New York Times' stance and calls for balancing external contributions with state-led relief efforts.
A Kansas appeal highlights a large per capita fund for immediate use to aid Shawnee Wyandotte and other counties hit by Kaw River floods. The author notes 660 Kansas banks could raise the needed 50 000 dollars if each contributes under 100 dollars, urging bankers to lead and asking if money always speaks.
In Topeka the temperance faction accuses local businesses of replacing beer with hop tea a mild nonintoxicating drink. Critics say the sale undermines laws, while supporters defend the shift as a legitimate change. Residents question whether a new name is needed for such establishments.
A humorous survey of summer talk and overused weather chatter, citing Elbert Fiudbard’s quip about concise speech and urging avoidance of sentimental phrases that heat up conversation and fashion. It mocks censors and arousal of terms like ardent affection and burning shame in the June season.
In a hot spell the piece urges readers toward simple outdoor vacations in the woods. It contrasts urban educational trips and family visits with rustic camping, urging practical prep, proximity to town for milk and water, and the rewards of roughing it in nature over luxurious travel. It notes some people never camp while others master cooking and fires, then hints at broader destinations like the Rockies and Michigan.
A rustic plea urges two weeks yearly in the woods for all. It warns of fewer theaters and gowns yet champions simple prosperity, family time, and national devotion. The verse praises courage, fidelity, and enduring values under a banner of loyalty and hope. By A Woodward, Bogue, Kansas.
A scattered survey of Kansas locales mentions sod house building around Atwood, a claim that Sr. Atehisno is building a shack in Hungry Hollow, and various small-town notes from Phillips, Saline, and Atchison counties. Reports touch harvest labor, community events, and local plans including a saloon debate in Morganville.
Fragmented column from the Atchison Globe recounts quirky moral musings and social asides. It mentions a respected figure named Marguerite Maggie, jokes about spring chickens and gravy, and various humorous quotes about marriage, weather, and busy life.
A historical note recalls Kansas boom days when a promoter formed a city railway on paper, then built little. Cars and horses proved costly. land speculation flourished as real estate men used rail lines to sell town lots. The venture collapsed, leaving a minister ruined while others gained little, and harvests surpassed street railways in value.
A fragmentary market of literary chatter and notices. References to Margaret Puller letters in Appleton’s forthcoming volume with an introduction by Julius Howe. Journal gossip on James Lane Allen renaming Gent The Mettle of the Pasture. Kipling’s Just So Stories to be illustrated. Quaker reflections and a quick rail-bulletin for St. Joe to Topeka travel.
A collection of oddball social observations from a Chicago newspaper mocks moral policing, marital alimony, and gender norms with satirical turns. It notes women speaking of ailments, women resisting advances, and the odd belief that beauty lies in deep effort.
A review survey notes Lilian Bell’s new book The Dowager Countess and the American Girl and its Harper & Brothers release. It covers her reading tour in Dayton for the Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs with husband Mr. Hart Hogue, and recounts a large reception attended by about five thousand women. It also mentions forthcoming works by Gwen Dalden Overton and Rice, plus English notices on teaching methods, The London Academy’s take on a play, and opinions on Ernest Thompson Seton and other American authors.
A fragmented society sketch on bachelor life and social expectations. It notes friends' costly tastes in attire and a girl striving to appear unaware of male attention. The piece contrasts personal accountability with a farmer’s imagined duties amid social opinion.
A garbled passage laments enervating days when people feel drained and sleep comes easily. It hints at struggles with weak systems and the stress of the season, noting a blurred sense of time and fatigue through the year.
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