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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1896
Page
4
The State Journal delivers by carrier at ten cents a week to Topeka and nearby suburbs with same price in other towns served by the carrier system.
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with possible rain and cooler conditions in the northwest. The piece also surveys international trade talks, Pacific railroad funding, and the rise of Japanese manufactured goods affecting Europe, alongside Kansas Republican dynamics and criticisms of local politicians amid the silver issue.
The Ohio money plank in the McKinley wing signals possible alignment with free coinage if elected, while eastern Republicans resist pledges. Dixie Lees town Wichita faces public scorn as dim sentinels of reform provoke reader backlash and a local paper exposes the rift.
A fragment from the state capitol records shows an 1807 General Order issued February 10 directing arrest of Colonel Aaron Burr and any party, with militia power to seize them. endorsed by Governor Hebert Williams of Mississippi Territory.
Miss Coburn daughter of F D Coburn receives chair in domestic economy at Iowa State Agricultural College with a $1200 salary. She is Kansas born, State Agricultural College graduate, previously held similar roles in Wisconsin and declined re elections. Also notes political conventions in Erie County and ore find in Creede.
A historical comparison contrasts the 1837 Pennsylvania ship of the line with the modern battleship Iowa. The Pennsylvania, wood hull, 210 foot length, 53 foot beam, 120 guns and heavy broadside would be outmatched by Iowa’s 11,410 ton steel behemoth with two turrets and 18 guns. The piece highlights advances in propulsion, armour, and firepower from wooden ships to steel battleships and considers the relative fighting power.
In a brisk tour of naval power the article contrasts ironclad battle might with wooden ships and extolls the Iowa’s armor and armament while describing a hypothetical ram attack and explosive torpedoes. It then previews a submarine torpedo boat, its design, submerged operation, and deadly implied weaponry. It also notes Paris siege balloons carrying passengers, letters, and pigeons, plus a quick literary note on domestic fiction and vegetarian London restaurants.
In M Quad's tale a mountain trekker is halted by a mule rider bragging on dodging taxes. Tom Hopkins refuses to pay more, taunting the state with a $7 receipt in hand. A moonshiner barrels a keg of whisky, a stranger probes the scene, and the narrator notes wary mountain life with wary humor.
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