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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1895
Page
4
The notice outlines delivery options for Topsks or suburban areas with a 10 tent weekly plan and carrier service. It states mail prices for three months and annual rates, including a weekly edition by mail.
Variably warm in Kansas with fair skies tonight and Thursday. Warnings about lard quality for importers in France and a mix of editorials on money, plutocrats, and fishing advice. Mentions Benator Rogers and T B Murdock as figures in local discourse.
The piece notes Decoration Day flag raising in Wamego amid ongoing debates over Populist officials and misused funds. It criticizes the cost of investigations, questions accountability, and mentions Cleveland naming William Whitney as successor, with implications of Democratic party splits and potential alternate ticket support.
Lxgarts delivered a powerful but unpublished address to veteran attendees in Iola Kansas. He warned that without sacrifice and unity the republic would falter, comparing past wars and losses to dangers of disunion, and urged defense of the Constitution and national ideals against threats from elites and factional politics.
Vague reminiscences from Kiowa residents recount a man tending politics and visiting Greensburg to shop. An Effeyham girl with a white dress attracts Fourth of July Goddess of Liberty offers. A farmer near Alma contemplates two rows of potatoes for a preacher. An Arkansas City wife used concentrated lys in biscuits, her husband and friends skeptical afterward.
In Cal June 12 a report claims gold was found in paying quantities on the ocean bed near the western end of San Clemente Island. Archibald Read’s yacht led to the discovery using a wax-tallow sounding tube, with gold embedded in the wax. A diver and expedition are planned to strip the treasure, gold noted as fine quality and unquarried.
The Young People's Alliance of Houron Kan adopted a resolution opposing pernicious literature and the Continental Sabbath. It denounces open parks art galleries saloons and other amusements claiming they degrade youth and empty churches and fill prisons. The group vows to use moral political and religious influence to retain the Puritan Sabbath.
Weetwonetanp Kan June 12 report claims thousands of canal fish are being taken illegally at Winkler's mill dam. Seining dip nets and gill hooks are used, despite laws. Many small fish 5 to 8 inches are hauled home by large crowds daily, threatening catfish and local game stocks.
Crosby Bros. plan to consolidate their two shops by July 1 at Stevenson's Stand. They have begun moving stock from the Sixth Direct location to the Stevenson building. The occupied building has been leased to A H Sharum for his dry goods stock after July, and the connecting bridge will be removed and walls reconfigured.
John Simon left a pocket book with money for his wife Mira while he traveled. A storm forced her indoors and she hid the purse between two ticks. When she later retrieved it the money was gone and a note read next time you hide your money between the ticks look under the bed. Mira Simon will remember the note forever in Sesrca Kansas on June 12.
County Superintendent Strong found wagon rear running gear in his courthouse office and two large bullsnakes by his den, blamed on a court house joker gang. He reportedly never drinks liquor. Prof Charles Goffrie dies at 74 in Fruitvale after fame as a leading musician.
State officials discuss funding for the asylum investigation committee as pay delays threaten to halt hearings. Governor Morrill has exhausted the current year funds and a Dawes ruling blocks using the coming year’s contingent fund for the current year. Stenographer demands pay before releasing evidence records. Also notes grain, citizenship restorations, and moves by state officers and others.
Orville Brown, about twenty, was tried for stealing two horses from Mrs. Casson on Quinton Heights. Believed by officials to be half-witted, he was acquitted. He claimed the horses were his, but could not explain entitlement. The judge and prosecutors approved the outcome as he left, reportedly the happiest boy in town.
James Dinnen of Newman visited North Topeka while the Hackford two-year-old is very ill. Local firms advertise goods and services from Stutz buggies to groceries, with various residents visiting, housekeeping, and club meetings noted. The Laurent Street tennis club and several merchants on North Kansas Ave are listed along with services from embalmers, carriage works, and horseshoeing.
On June 11 the Baltimore and Ohio will sell day excursion tie points in Virginia along the Harperd For Valley Branch south of Winchester at one fare round trip. Tickets also sold to options in the west south and southwest at low rates good for return within 20 days. For details contact ticket agents or P Kretzer land and immigration agent Philadelphia or LD S&S Allen general passenger agent Lucio Illinois. Randall Crill irrigate 18 acres of potatoes and onions north of Sentra ville Kansas using a $500 gasoline pump irrigating 8 acres at 19 cents per hour. Marsh creek provides the water. E82 calls up the Peerless.
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