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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1895
Page
4
A scattered forecast from Chicago notes mild weather for Kan sas with warmer tonight and fair but colder Sunday, while politics run a gas, mentioning Gardenhire anti-pas a bill and debates over tariffs, postal service, and cable funding. The column blends weather, public figures, and miscellaneous local notes with humorous asides and political commentary.
Special Correspondence notes how figures like Carter Choate Brooke and O Sullivan dominate big city practice. It cites Parsons sugar trust payout as the largest single fee and estimates annual earnings for top names from 50 000 to 100 000 dollars. It profiles Howe Hummel as a striking duo with dramatic court tactics and theatrical contract work.
Matt W. Ransom of Weldon North Carolina has been chosen to succeed the late Isaac Pusey Gray as minister to Mexico. He completes a fourth U S senate term and is famed as a steady politician rather than a debater. Born in Warren County he is a UNC graduate and Confederate veteran who surrendered at Appomattox.
Mrs Althea Briggs Stryker, born in Centralia Illinois, rose from an orphaned early life to become a self made woman and leading Populist in Kansas. She studied at Fort Scott College married Professor Stryker, taught there, and now lobbies for woman suffrage while denouncing ministers over Prohibition violations.
Reports to the agriculture department show growing interest in the good roads movement among state legislatures. General Roy Stone, in charge of road inquiry, just returned from California and Texas where road conventions favored convict labor for road material production. Bulletins will outline wide tires, road improvements, convict labor in road making and material prep, and state government measures on road questions.
The Holly Springs route via St Louis and Cairo Short Line connects from St Louis on the Illinois Central to Holly Springs and onward through the K C M B Southern FP C P lines to Jacksonville and all Florida points. It promotes through Pullman sleeping cars from St Louis to Jacksonville and invites readers to request the Florida Folder for full route information. It also includes a testimonial about Dr King’s New Discovery for pneumonia and La Grippe.
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