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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1896
Page
4
In Manhattan and across the state, political talk centers on the gold standard, free silver, and party realignments. Bryan, McKinley, and congressional figures stir crowds as factions argue for currency policy, while editorial notes compare U S wages to European levels and call for decisive party stances amid evolving platforms.
Circulation statement for the first six months of 1806 shows Topeka Daily State Journal leading in readership. The paper’s daily average circulation figures, ending June 20, 1590, are noted with emphasis on dominance over competitors.
A fragment outlines the daily circulation totals for the first half of 1806 from January 1 to June 30. It reports monthly and yearly averages, total copies printed, and notes the proprietor in Kansas. The text is garbled but mentions averages for several years and a claimed circulation around 10,626 for a month.
Reports from Topckiy indicate efforts to modify the Kansas platform and push a single plank aligned with the Louwis program. Local letters blast the maneuver as cowardly, urging supporters to stand with A H Bill and Charlie Curtis for two Republican congressmen from Kansas. The scene unfolds amid St Louis convention talk and intra party rifts across counties like Smith and Lebanon.
The sound currency committee in New York surveyed six Kansas papers on the free coinage movement. Responses varied. some praise free coinage as a political factor in campaigns, others see limited growth, and several papers express hopes or skepticism about its impact on the fall county election and sound money advocacy.
The Wichita Beacon reprints the State Journal editorial on Partisan Newspapers and notes broad praise for the State Journal’s success, while criticizing Topeka’s mayoral bid to control city printing and push political fences, drawing sharp local rebuke.
A feature on presidential travel contrasts early leaders with later ones, detailing Washington’s Mount Vernon retreats and Jefferson’s Monticello summers, and tracing how Hayes Grant Garfield Arthur and Cleveland spent summers, visited seashores or parks, rode special trains, and used vacations for both retreat and public work. The piece notes public perception, travel methods, and the impact on governance and popularity.
A Philadelphia hospital study observes how patients from different nations vocalize pain during wound dressings. Americans curse openly, Italians mutter strings of syllables, Russians sway and call out, while Chinese patients often remain quiet under procedures.
The readable text depicts a gesture with hands and fingers, mentioning a demonstration and a person. Content is fragmented and lacks coherent events, dates, or names to form a full news item.
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