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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1895
Page
4
Subscription notice for The State Journal detailing carrier delivery to Topeka and nearby towns, price options for weekly and three month or yearly mail orders, and rate figures. Includes scattered OCR errors but conveys subscription terms and pricing.
A patchwork of notices, editorials, and snippets discusses Kansas weather, currency debates, and political punditry. It notes silver and gold circulation, whisky partnerships, and a call for better news standards, with remarks on newspapers like the New York World and Topeka Journal.
A StaTe Journal reader discussion among Santa Fe trainmen features endorsement of John J. Ingalls for president. Speakers praise his honesty, practicality, and firmness against political manipulators, suggesting a potential national movement tied to silver policy and public sentiment.
The academy, ten years old and run by the Southern Kuoses society of the Congregational church, faced $800 yearly deficits early on and $1500 in recent years. Now raising funds to cover interest on $3,000 spent furnishing the building, with Henry Watterson failing as a speaker and Ingalls donating services. Principal E G Lancaster to retire after three years. a class of 21 graduates, 14 girls and 7 boys. A postlecture reception at Hotel Greenwood followed the event with Senator Ingalls among attendees.
The JovxNan sends a special reporter to Eureka to record Senator Ingalla's visit and speech which the Stare Joursan covers with enterprise. It notes the speech as highly interesting and important, while also offering a Royal baking powder tip for cooking receipts.
Suffrage women organize a miners benefit in Hamilton next Tuesday evening to aid suffering Scranton miners. Donations from Hamilton businesses include a free ball and a strong line up of local talent such as the Modocs Prof Vincent Graham Wyatt sisters Mrs J W Going Miss Campbell Winifred Lotna club William Wadsworth and Mrs Frank Foater. Tickets are twenty five cents and go on sale at all drug stores tomorrow.
Five year old Banner E Shawhan Jr son of evangelists perished instantly after plunging from a third story window in Kansas City. Funeral held yesterday in their rooms conducted by Dr Charles B Mitchell of Grand Avenue M E Church. John Blackler aged sixty three died of throat trouble on his Prairie Home farm and was buried there.
The article describes a lightweight two post starting machine for horse racing. Posts brace toward the track with wire guy ropes and inclined side braces. A barrier of eight light ropes is lifted by electric button, aligning with waiting horses, then released.
Rain from western Kansas floods reach the Kansas River, lifting water three feet above low mark. Reports say rainfall totals in Norton county reached eight to ten inches, with foam, driftwood and rising waters visible as the river climbs higher than seen in over a year. Separately, Royal Baking Powder ads claim dominant market share as evidence of its cooking value. An American traveler in Mexico, J. Benton, dies after falling from a cliff near Hermosillo while companion P. R. Flower continues toward Nogales.
Emporia defeats Topeka again at Athletic Park in a game marked by six Topeka errors and a late homer by Roy Evans. A pitched ball injured a Topeka batter, but Evans and Randolph led Emporia with key hits as Topeka hail mary calls for changes meet with mixed reviews.
On June 11 the Baltimore and Ohio railroad sells 30 day excursion tickets to Virginia points on the Harpers Ferry and Valley Branch south of Winchester at one fare for the round trip. Tickets also sold to western and southern points at low return rates 20 days from date of sale. Inquiries to R and D ticket agents P Kretzer Philadelphia or L Allen Chicago. A Rochester man taught a Sunday school class and then went fishing the same afternoon.
A boom targets Edwina Taylor for the 1896 Populist governor bid and James A Troutman for the Republican nomination, with Western Kansas editors connected to Charley Lobdell. Also mentions two lives saved by Dr King’s New Discovery and local advertisements for medicines and railroad ticket deals in Topeka and Ottawa.
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