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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
4
The notice outlines subscription pricing for The State Journal offering 10 cents a week in Topeka and suburbs, plus rates for mailing options. It specifies three months by mail and one year, with weekly edition pricing per year.
A jumble of weather notes and political gossip hits Topeka and surrounding areas. Reports mention southerly winds shifting to northwesterly, and a Kansas postmaster fined five dollars for a letter to the department. The column also recaps misinformed political chatter about governors, candidates, and financial policy debates amid a flurry of partisan commentary from local papers.
A fragmented dispatch from Topeka mocks Kansas women as capable of balancing teaching cattle ranching and social reform, while noting editorials praising Kansas feats. It contrasts Chicago and New York editors with Topeka Journal, cites Flower and Wall Street debates, and questions political loyalties in the McKinley era.
March 5 San Francisco report notes Paderewski praising Chinese artists filling rookeries with unmelodious but classic productions. He remarks dramatic expression in tones, even without understanding words, and admires simple beauty and centuries of study behind the art. The music blends Slavic and Scotch influences with perfect rhythm throughout lengthy recitative passages.
The profile of Anna W Williams on millions of silver dollars sparks nationwide attention as rumors spread she will marry. The piece notes extensive railroad fare offers and promotions tied to travel dates, random city agents, and scattered ads interwoven with the wedding tale.
William Sickles of Setauket won a $2000 wager by swimming across Setauket Lake in 4 minutes 30 seconds amid 14 to 18 degree cold with a blanket and shoes ready as safety. Friends Davis Fallon and Dr Bates backed him. after a dramatic start he reached shore, recovered, and later repeated the feat across the ice.
Idhn Dillon, about 45, son of John Blake Dillon, elected permanent chairman of the Irish parliamentary party to succeed Justin McCarthy. A veteran of Irish politics since 1880, he has endured imprisonment, exile, and mob violence, once aiding the Land League plan and briefly jailed for conspiracy. He began as Parnell’s lieutenant, later opposing him, and remains a prominent, controversial figure in Dublin politics.
A new patriotic children's society, Children of the Revolution, organized by Mrs Daniel Lothrop of Boston, aims to unite descendants of Revolutionary patriots. Since its first Concord Massachusetts chapter on May 11, 1895, it has spread to Reading Pennsylvania, Washington, and many states with multiple chapters.
A sheriff and a jailed man argue at the courthouse steps with the prisoner claiming a hog-case arrest. the sheriff orders the man to leave, citing repeated escapes, while the man insists he must stay until the courthouse meeting. The confrontation ends as the prisoner retreats, and the sheriff mutters about a stubborn detainee.
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