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Newspaper

Topeka State Journal

Location

Topeka, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Jun 18, 1897

Page

4

State Journal Weekly Edition Rates and Addresses

The State Journal lists weekly carrier delivery options across Topeka and surrounding towns at uniform prices. The issue provides the State Journal Building address, hours for business and reporters rooms, telephone numbers for office inquiries, and notes American Newspaper Publishers Association affiliation.

Permanest Mome Waepeke State Journal Hansas Avenue Erenth Pubiiahers' Association Alwaye

Weather Indications and Debs Movement Reflections

Weather notes for Kansas and Illinois warn of thunderstorms tonight and into Saturday with variable winds. The Debs movement faces skepticism about its leadership and potential success. Readers share mixed local items from Santa Fe to Ottawa, with social notes, notables, and public notices.

Kansas

Human Goodness in a Denver Pastor and a Street Scene

A reflective piece contrasts a Denver minister named David Urter and a casual street moment to illustrate kindness rooted in principle. It recalls a debt repaid by a stranger and a girl weaving through rain-washed streets, showing acts arising from impulse and benevolence beyond strict duty.

David Urter Denver Sermford Tan Tay

Little Church Around the Corner Memory and Clergy Friends

A fragmentary reminiscence at Little Church Around the Corner in Houghton includes past visitors like Edgin Booth Lester Wallach and Mr Backus the San Francisco minstrel. The speaker recalls informal ministry, funeral empathy, and a hymn misquote confusion about “Rock of Ages” versus “Simply to thy cross I cling.”

Ubr Houghton Hever Prbra Clases Edgin Booth Lester Wallach Backus Scripturd Agta

Quotable scraps mix satire from scattered papers

A collage of humorous lines from various papers comments on sponging readers soap users and newspaper readers. It cites Atchison Champion Lakrenet Journal Winteld Courter Arkansas City Traveler Ona-Wwatomlée Journal Leavenworth Standard Chasity Tribune Wichita Eagle and other titles with quips on editors mosquitoes and life dangers. The text blends misprints and playful jabs without a central story.

Amusing Globe Tidbits From Atchison Gibbe

A collection of soft society notes from Atchison scenes. remarks touch on amateur theater limits, a girl’s suitor visiting, aging servants, gossip, and wedding gift plans in a westward town. Paragraphs hint at social norms, boarding school farewells, and farm women’s changing work roles.

GLOBE Atchison

Fragmented regional notice on dress norms and gender norms

A jumble of lines describes reactions to women's clothing lengths in different regions. It contrasts Eastern and Central Branch attitudes, noting women’s skirts and hosiery, and implies social scrutiny when men gaze. The passage mentions a girl arriving by bicycle and differing reactions by locality.

Lgowa Weman

Early Man in America from May Lippincott's magazine

From May Lippincott's magazine an excerpt describes prehistoric climates and fauna, noting cooler conditions, large woolly rhinoceros and mammoth, and early humans in North America and Europe. It discusses bone findings, skeletal traits, and a harsh choice between survival and nascent civilization amid mammoth and beast.

Lippincott Dong Europe

Heroic Names for Dollars I From the New York Law

The essay traces trademark registration growth as factories sprout and public awareness rises. It notes registrars expanded lists amid rising fashion items like collars and cuffs, with 260000 styles once claimed and shifts in naming trends. It highlights using male and martial names, then Indian sounding names, and cites Paul Revere and Ethan Allen as early examples.

New York Troe de Shasta New England Paul Revere Ethan Alten John Alden Cooper

The Evil of the Graded School

William J. Rbeacers argues the graded school wastes time by delaying students who miss minimal work. He notes high promotion failure rates and many pupils not returning, contending the system shortens the school term and harms intellectual development.

Cwilliam J Lees Thaive

Park Rule Bans Grass Sitting by Men in Chicago

A Chicago park order bars single men from sitting on green grass in Union and Garfold parks unless with a woman or a child, forcing many to eat on benches or move to other areas. Enforced three weeks, police focus on the new West Park Board aim to curb vagrants and favor women and children, but nontramps face discrimination.

Chicago Park New West Park Board Union Garfold Pard

Czarina weight rumors and notable remarks in letters

Reports quote varied views on the Russian czar and German empress as well as remarks by Chief Justice Fuller. Observers discuss Mrs. McKinley’s health, Corsresman George S. White's stature, and Eliza D. Stewart’s long temperance work. An American woman seeks Andrew Lang’s literary support for a request.

Eliza D. Stewart Woman's Temperance Union West Sprinzfield Stewart Osborn Virginia Andrew Lang Ditase

Pigeon Returns Home Under Watchful Care in Cincinnati Mission

The record pigeon Hankla plans to reach Cincinnati in two days from Ellsworth. The bird is sealed in a large basket with food and water, handled only by Hankla. A southwest wind is desired, an east wind could delay the flight. officials will report conditions when the bird is released tomorrow morning.

Hankla Henkla Ellsworth Cincinistl Ituneas City Cincinnati Hankin Talen

Wisconsin Institutions Under Investigation in State

Milwaukee June 1 A movement forms to probe nine Wisconsin state institutions with serious charges. Supt JG Hart of the Waukesha boys industrial school faces drunkenness cruelty charges and Richard Petherick of the state board of control takes temporary charge. Prosecution lawyer Lynn Pease reports demand for inquiry into other facilities Mendota Oshkosh Wad­do prison. Inmates counts cited and cruelty allegations noted.

Milwaukee Wisconsin JG. Hart Industrial School For Boys Waukesha Richard Petherick State Board of Control Lynn & Pease Mttorweys

Not Spreckels Plant In Brooklyn Coffee Refiner

The American Coffee Company plans a Brooklyn refinery with coffee roasting and packing, denied linkage to Spreckels or Arbuckle Bros. Herman Sleloken states the plant will be ready in three months as the Havemeyers expand capacity. The Toledo Wedisin Spice Company doubles output to meet rising demand.

American Coffe Company Brooklyn New York Claus Sprecksls American Sugar Reining Company Arbuckle Bros American Coffee Company Wes Allin American Sugar Refining Company Herman Sleloken

Illinois Senator Speaks to Crowd at Hamilton Hall Event

The tenth annual Kansas Republican league meeting ended at 2 45 pm yesterday marking its shortest run since formation. Delegates were elected to the national convention in Detroit in July with district vice presidents and delegates at large named including Guthrie Atchison Mitchell Johnson and others from Marysville Wichita and Emporia.

Kansas Republican League Detroit W. F. Guthrie Atchison W. A. Mitchell Johnson John Randolph Pittsboro E. B Packer Osage City W. Smith Marysville A. Lewis Philipsburg Gerald Volk Wichita D. A. Hook Leavenworth A. Jordan Lyons W. A. Calderhead George Martindale Emporia W. Beshan Arkansas City M. Chilcott Wamego A. J. Felt W. A A. C. Stich Independence RN. Allen Chanute John Lindberg Esteeburs W. H. Nelson Cockrell Topeka E . Pipp Burlingame Geo. W. Smith J. F. Culver J. Brock Manhattan Hull Herington A. J. Sanderland J. C. Morrow Haddam Ike Purvell Grainfield

Berry's Kansas quip steams up Republican feature event

Senator Berry condemned Populists and reformers in Illinois and Kansas in a sweltering Hamilton Hall address. He lauded GOP unity, recalled the first Republican platform, and praised prosperity while urging Republicans to back a strong candidate and reject reform rhetoric. He contrasted Gov Geld with Kansas leaders and urged defeating demagogues.

Hamilton Hill Atarshall Mr. Berry Berrs League John C. Premont Berry Hlinois United States Kansas Altgeld Tom Jackson East Republican Party of

Madison Likely to Attack Leland in Republican Address

Fragmentary report shows tensions at a Republican State league convention with leaders debating voting rights and delegation seating. Ury challenges secretaries while Madison asserts control as district delegates are permitted to name their own alternates amid disputed ballots and incomplete records.

Madison Leland Kruie Ury Scott Ory Swaine Ury Caldwel

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