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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1897
Page
4
The State Journal Daily edition describes delivery by carrier at 29 cents per week to Topeka and suburbs or dam site towns. It notes mailed or street delivery options and holiday or seasonal pricing through three months, with pricing and service details limited by the sample text.
A satirical critique argues that future police forces under theosophist influence would prioritize belief over policing skill. It laments partisan municipal control and calls for citizens to disengage from party politics to build a better city government.
The piece discusses unions, trusts, and department stores as means to economical production and price control. It notes labor and displayers unions, the need for mutual protection, and the surge of fraternal welfare organizations, including life insurance and altrustic societies.
Describes a community where members share property and work for common benefits. It outlines a printing office, planned store, restaurant, laundry, and various enterprises, with housing, meals, clothing, and services provided communally. Cautions that such cooperation could challenge private capital and organized trade.
A polemic arguing white southern rule will persist, contending that negro voting is unlikely to unite, praising black educational progress, and predicting black laborers will align with employers and laws that favor regional prosperity. The piece asserts durable racial hierarchy and economic interdependence shaping political support.
A Harper's Round Table sketch describes Wall Street boys reporting to offices by 9 AM, staying until needed, with a half hour noon break. Duties include delivering stock storks, securing checks, and later handling bank verifications. The piece notes fewer boys on the street as the clearing house modernizes and recounts a mistaken check incident.
A travel party tours a cave beneath Broad Street with treacherous passages and warned only by loose stones. They describe oppressive darkness, past exploration beyond a half mile, and a seven mile underground round trip. Sixteen people entered with several ill and one death. most left after discovering the risks and the cave’s conditions. A final hotel bill itemizes route costs and lodging.
The article reflects on Venus as a dead world, detailing axial and orbital slowdown, and describes its beauty as a distant illusion. It compares Venus’s aging to a cherry blossom, noting the planet once prime is now old and asleep, yet still seen as lovely in the twilight.
A fragmented archival excerpt contrasts reactions to a royal tour in Canada and the United States. It notes intense female curiosity, looted trunks, and touched linens, plus bishops or churchgoers crowding to glimpse the prince, while describing the intrusive behavior of spectators and staff.
Snippets from several Kansas newspapers offer jests on editors, gardening, politics and daily life. Humorous lines poke at editors, farmers, and politicians while noting light hearted misprints and local fancies. Names include Emporia Gazette, Burden Hagie, Atchison Champion, Ottawa Republican, Chanute Tribune, Hutchinson News, Lawrence World, Blue Rapids items.
The speaker challenges the belief that the rich steadily gain while the poor lose, arguing instead that overall well being diffuses and gaps narrow as education rises. He warns against actions that heighten class contrasts and urges measures to lessen social distance amid rising urban tensions.
The St Louis Post-Dispatch cites a Japanese commission report after US monetary policy shifts and the silver demonetization, warning that Japan must revert to gold standard. It predicts hardship, higher demand for gold money, and wealth gains for European bankers as the world gold system tightens.
Captain Wyatt of Topeka praised Congressman Grosvenor for supporting a sweeping civil service reform. The March 1 letter from Washington argues the current system breeds corruption and inefficiency and urges Republicans to pledge broad modification to remove what is described as a federal office spoiling scheme. It asserts only candidates meeting high standards should hold office and appeals to young men to back the reform effort.
In Stoamboat Rock, Iowa, the Presbyterian church with about 100 members disbanded after dissatisfaction. Rev T J Bally preached, drawing support for Congregationalist worship. Deacons spoke up, urging continued services while others wished to consider. A vote carried the change to form a Congregational church.
In Cripple Creek the bic fire era saw G B Henderson suffer a severe cough which resisted remedies until three bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy were used. The editor of the Daily Advertiser reports the cough and cold left him and notes the high altitude requires a strong remedy. For sale by grocers. Homeseekers' excursions via Santa Fe Route March.
Washington society records the Vanderbilt family paying $1,400 for three months rent for a pew at St John’s church. The Corcoran Art Gallery had a formal opening with a reception on a February evening. A footman announced pay day to Mrs Vanderbilt, then the carriage was driven away after the box visit.
Temperance women in Cleveland raid Sam De Graw’s Superior Street saloon after a hypnotized youth, put on display by Professor Carson, appears in the window. They demand removal, appeal to city officials, and police Captain Madigan enforces the action. Carson denounces the confrontation.
At a Fountain County dinner a dish called pon horse, a mush made from hogs hearts heads and corn meal, sickened Alvah Short his wife and two children and others. A physician diagnosed arsenical poisoning yet most recovered though Short and a daughter and two others remained pros trated as the tainted dish showed putrefaction.
Chicago report notes the University of Chicago Weekly did not run a large beer advertisement last issue. A brewery rep offered inducements for a prominent display, but the student management faced faculty fear and ultimately declined the money and space.
David Henderson, long contributing to Ohio theatergoers, will receive a grand testimonial at McVickers Theater in Chicago on Thursday afternoon March 25. Postmaster Washington Hesing chairs the testimonial committee with Hepburn Johne as secretary and J Harry Ballard as treasurer. Leading theater managers and companies lending aid promise a high order entertainment from noted members of the dramatic profession.
The United States Supreme Court decided against the government in the case United States v Conqueror. The steam yacht Conqueror, built in England for Frederick W. Van derbilt, was seized in 1830 as a durable article by New York customs. Vanderbilt sought to recover the vessel and damages of 20000 dollars.
Drug store claim by G Callicutte of Beavers vile praising Dr King s New Discovery for La Grippe. He says he was near death after trying physicians and was saved after using three bottles. Free trial offered at J K Jones drug store on Sun and Kansas avenues with regular sizes 50c and 1.00
In the lead, an advertisement urges travelers heading to Kansas City Chicago or St. Louis or other eastern cities to consult time cards and agent rates for the best service and fastest times. Signed by LEWIS City Ticket Agent and FULTON Depot Agent.
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