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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1896
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text from The State Journal appears to be an early Topeka style newspaper item. It references an editor or author Frank P MacLennam and mentions Topeka, subscription terms, daily edition, and carrier distribution. The readability is low and lacks clear event or outcome details.
The Toprke Daily State Journal reports reduced circulation with no daily or Sunday paper published in Topeka or Ravens. A partial May statement notes the daily average for the month.
The Topeka Daily State Journal for May 1696 reports daily circulation, listing dates and pages per day. Total copies printed that month were 296.82, divided by 36 issues, yielding the average per issue. The report is a corrected sales record from the period.
The record shows steady growth with January and April daily averages cited for 1885 and 1922, plus monthly weather indications for June. It mentions the cost of silver in ounces and a political query about Democratic conventions and a prison escape affecting the governor and pardons board.
The piece discusses Mrs. Platt of New York claiming business men control the country and could dictate the Republican platform at St Louis. It notes the Los Angeles Express questions this, citing business influence across states and sectors, including factory owners, merchants, and financiers, and mentions McKinley as a business man’s candidate while contrasting with speculators and party purism. It also touches on Mexican minister Henry Dering’s views and Republican party dynamics ahead of the St Louis convention.
The piece rails at Calderhead for gold standard leanings amid silver sentiment in the Fifth district. It accuses the Republican machine of forcing Calderhead onto voters without consent, calls for a true silver district, and mocks party organs and finances. It also notes European silver purchases and Kansas political chatter.
A jumble of stray notes and quotes from various papers. Snippets reference political vetoes, legends, births, street life, and a lingering sense of local anecdote captured in disjointed lines from the Paracas Sun Ottawa Republic Wichita Eagle and Winkeld Sentinel.
Officers of the grand encampment of the LO. C. F. were elected at the Horton meeting. Names include Grand Biatriarch Frank Starnberg Cedarville Grand priest OG King Horton grand scribe Fed Rees Leavenworth grand treasurer Robert Bolyn and others. Also a local note about a man who left his crutch behind at a Van Buren street house. Kansas normal musical tour Topeka details.
The piece reflects on childhood memories of swimming at a hollow and contrasts rural boyhood sprit with city girls learning to swim in urban natatoriums. It describes lessons, equipment, and the social scene around pools, with references to notable figures and clubs in New York and Philadelphia, and notes how swimming becomes part of urban female education and social life.
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