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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1895
Page
4
A compact clipping highlights varied Topeka and Kansas items including education critique, local oddities, and brief notes from Emporia, Lawrence, Wichita, and Abilene. Mentions public schooling progress, misgivings over European comparisons, and humorous regional vignettes about local life and misadventures.
A jumble of weather hints for Kansas with fair to warm forecasts and west winds, followed by a noisy mixed array of political snippets. It mentions Judge David Murila, the gold standard, Bob Lincoln, and party feuds, then shifts to dam injunctions, Santa Fe road plans, and literacy stats cited from Governor McKinley.
Secretary E. Gault of the Kansas Republican league reports from Cleveland that western delegates pressed the silver question but the league favored bimetallism at a ratio to maintain parity. He notes the sentiment backed McKinley, though Ohio may weaken him, and Cleveland was praised for convention handling as Kansas begins campaign organization.
W. W. Cone of the State Historical Society has returned from Brandsvile Mo where he bought a forty acre orchard and plans to move there soon Brandsville lies in Howell county on the south slope of the Ozarks about ten miles from Memphis West Plains, the county seat, lists Jake Stotler, once a Kansas newspaper man, and Charley Williamson as hotel operators.
Mrs E B Green proposes discussing why more girls graduate high school than boys at the Women's Progressive Political League meeting. She cites a male view that girls stay in school to marry, while others say girls seek self support. Mrs Otis supports the discussion and invites a paper from the gentlemen. Also notes local laundry and streetcar guidance to Olympic Park fairgrounds.
New York June 25 Cornell University a leading American institution is noted for wealth and youth with an annual income of 500000 and endowment of 10000000. The article profiles President Schurman, the university’s cosmopolitan student body, Sibley College, and the grand library, highlighting its rapid growth and global reach.
Charles Elliott has spent a month at Atlantic coast resorts with Charles Hiliott, enjoying Ocean Grove and surf bathing in approved attire. He is expected home Saturday and has not written to relatives due to social duties amid free theatricals at Olympia grounds.
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