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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1895
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription options for the State Journal Daily edition with delivery by carrier in Topeka and surrounding areas and by mail. Rates shown include three months, one year, and weekly editions, with prices listed for readers in Kansas towns served by carrier systems.
The item blends weather forecasts for Kansas with nightly showers, a dip in exports, Pennsylvania political shifts, and a tangle of 19th century opinions on banks and law. It cites Senator Peffer, Senator Brice, Dawes, and Judge Jovex Carowine, and describes a humane view of juror deliberation amid a Cheyenne case.
John P. Rogers leads a proposal to build a nearly square one mile track in Topeka modeled after Terre Haute. Estimated cost ranges from 2,400 to 14,000 dollars, requiring space from track south line to north fence and possible demolition of several buildings. Rogers argues a mile track is needed to allow spectators to view horses the entire circuit, noting Topeka already has a fast half mile track in the west.
A collection of brief notes from Coffeyville to Ottawa and beyond, peppered with oddities. Items include revival meetings in Morris Illinois by Congregational minister Philip Krohn, a thin man in Ottewa needing snow shoes to avoid cellar gratings, and local quips about births surpassing deaths in Ottawa county by 857 over three years.
A clerical error in publishing an ordinance set all vehicles at six mph, though bicycles and tricycles were meant to travel ten mph. The council plans a correction soon while noting Royal Baking Powder costs and is claimed stronger yet priced similar to inferior brands.
Kansas violinist Dome Geza known as Louis Donenin has not deserted the monastery. He is in Kansas on a leave, visiting Chiia Hoffman’s family at Enterprise. In a Topeka letter he says he has no plan to quit the abbey and retains Abbey St X Maviers Novitiats Bardstown KY as his permanent address.
The Rock Island company began dam construction east of Spin Creek crossing near Smith Center. The project will reach about thirty feet in height and around one hundred feet wide at the base, with dirt removed from a cut east of the creek by a fleet of four horse scrapers. The dam aims to be the largest along the Chicago to Denver Mortgase Base line.
J Howard Moore, a vegetarian advocate and Prohibition club leader from the University of Chicago, won the national contest title as the champion Prohibition orator of the United States. His oration argued against liquor and called for reform, with Moore also noted as a suffragist and future reform lecturer.
An electric locomotive of 96 tons and 1440 horsepower is being tested by the Baltimore and Ohio in a tunnel. At 46 mph for passengers and 15 mph for freight the 35 foot long unit uses a trolley system and produces no coal. Designed for tunnel work, it can haul 200 to 250 empty flats on level track.
A two part smokeless electric locomotive built by General Electric in Schenectady New York uses eight steel driven wheels with 3 inch tires and air powered controls. It moves with smooth jolt free motion and can pull or push, outstripping two large steam locomotives in a tug of war. Letter carriers in London face street name confusion with 264 Victoria streets and other clusters across the city.
Mark Twain displayed a cache of handwritten epitaphs from his years as San Francisco city editor, reading aloud somber poems about a youth, orphans, a child, a wife, and a creditor. He joked they steady him in dark moments and offered the Post writer a glimpse into his tender, humorous reaction to grief.
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