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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1897
Page
4
The State Journal offers daily and weekly editions with home delivery across Topeka and Kansas towns, detailing prices and addresses. The piece critiques coverage of Mrs. Lease and includes short humorous clippings from surrounding Kansas papers about events, weather, and local color.
Chicago July 4 weather: for Kansas Shin Gre afternoon fair and cooler tonight Sunday fair with variable winds. In trade news current events favor regulation over unfettered competition as combines grow. Critics warn of rising labor and capital consolidation eroding price competition and prompt calls for state action to curb combine power amid miner strikes.
Mrs Lease of Kansas, once a national figure, has slipped into obscurity after years of shifting political tides. Despite fading visibility, she remains prolific in writings and columns, with new pieces in major papers and frequent appearances in Sunday journals, continuing to draw interest from the public and critics alike.
A collage of quirky rural notices and local curiosities from Kansas papers. Joe Jones reports on corn harvest in Sumner County. Walter Johnson is robbed but a dime is left for his morning needs. Lighthearted anecdotes span multiple towns and editors.
Washington diary notes a short cabinet gathering without Sherman to discuss Alaska sub-ports of entry for mineral migration revenues. The group planned schedules vary with each member, Sherman at Long Island, Gage in Chevy Chase, Long on the Dolphin, Alger and others with the president on Lake Champlain, while Sileson's plans remained undecided.
An old advertisement promotes mineral water at 1 W Eighth Street promising relief for constipation headaches and various stomach ailments. It asserts wits digestion aids offered by a local purveyor.
Denver July 2 Mackawanago the strongest town in Colorado with a population of about 70 thirty families two public emes a commissary and resident physician operates on a cooperative plan on Frying Pan river sixty miles west of Leadville Promoters include Green Adams Dr Eldridge and President Jones of Grand Junctions First National Bank The town serves as a summer refuge for Grand Junction residents and features a vegetable shaded village layout and regular grocery and meat deliveries A police presence guards children while weekend visitors from Grand Junction enjoy excellent trout fishing including twelve and ten and a half pound rainbow trout and typical five to three pound catches
Topeka school officials dispute attorney general and city superintendent claims about five year textbook contracts. J H Squires asserts all over year contracts are trade conditional and cost no extra expense. He urges officials to verify details with the board of education rather than speak from the state house.
Governor Pingree denounces the pending tariff bill in a published interview. He argues hide duties raise a pair price across Ritz wheel and claims Armour Swift Morris and Libbys control the hide market. He questions sugar duties and notes lumber taxes hit modest households hardest while farmers and workers bear the cost.
The Union Pacific announces cheap one way fares to Chicago for 10.20 and to St Louis for 7.40 with certain July and August travel dates. For details contact FP.A. Lewie, City Ticket Agent, 625 Kansas Avenue or J. Fulton, Depot Agent. Beggs Diarrhea Balsam advertised as a fast relief for bowel inflammation.
E H Sothern and his wife Virginia Harned nearly drowned at Lawrence Beach when undertow pulled them out. A friend helped, and lifeguard Joseph Raynor dragged them to shallow water. Sothern pressed a $3500 check as thanks, praising lifeguarding and the courage shown.
Stewart Ford files for divorce from Loretta Small Ford daughter of evangelist Sam Small amid accusations of infidelity and quarrelsome conduct. Ford cites details of alleged immoral acts at multiple addresses and names W S Capps as a corespondent. Loretta Ford counters with accusations of her husband's infidelity and cruelty. Sam Small, licensed attorney, is expected to represent his daughter.
Interior of the state capitol rotunda in Columbus is being cleaned and renovated. Janitors wash portraits of governors, risking damage to artworks valued around 25 000 dollars. Art critics fear half the portraits may be ruined, including a famed bas relief of Vicksburg surrender by General Pemberton.
Denver July 24 signals from Fort Logan officers under Captain Glas ford used heliograph to contact a party on the Equitable Estate roof yesterday morning. Detachments at Evergreen mountain near Morrison and Fort Logan exchanged flashes with rapidity. Captain Glass ford led the drills with Sergeants Baldwin McLaughlin Kennedy commanding Morrison unit. The drill will be repeated till morning.
Berlin July 4 Lokalanzeiger reports the Pram the vessel used in Dr Nansens polar voyage will be commanded by Captain Sverdrup and explore Greenland western coast for about two years. A research tour with English and American geologists is planned with dogs to prevent freezing and a possible circumnavigation of the northern Greenland end.
A Topeka reader writes to defend the Colorado Co operative company from charges raised by John G Otis and others. The piece recounts the colony’s incorporation, its shift toward cooperative land and water projects in Montrose and Shenandoah, and the expulsion and break with Otis and Blake who formed the Altra ia Co operative association. The letter claims the Colorado effort has grown to 100 residents and 235 active members with plans for a large ditch and extensive irrigation from the San Miguel river to support 210 acres, while denouncing Otis as injurious and misrepresentative.
The Rocky Ford melon day committee visited Denver to arrange events and forecasts say records will be broken this year with larger crops juicier melons and bigger crowds. Six special trains will be run on the Santa Fe road to meet demand while Melon Day falls on September 2. Shirts collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Emu...
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