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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1896
Page
4
A Montana Supreme Court decision upholds Carey Ivevice Mantis's mortgage redemption opinion. The text also surveys national politics, gold standard disputes, and Senate appointments, noting tensions between Cleveland era figures, party dynamics, and fiscal policy amid currency debates and mint operations.
A London dated AP dispatch outlines Whitely opposition to full international bimetallism while supporting a monetary standard link between gold and silver. The plan seeks international agreement for stable exchange, with broad but secret opposition in England and hopes for a continental push led by Paris, Berlin, and London allies.
Battery E N G hosted about 400 friends at the Prescott building on Eighth Street near Jackson for a Mock military benefit. A 20 item literary programme and tableaux featured The Modocs Miss Bernice Fuller Miss Madge Ward Mrs PH Adame H V Hinckley and Lawrence’s mandolin club and the Young brothers. Hayden Hargate and Taylor delivered an oratorical convention with all three speaking in unison. A saber drill followed by Patterson Dobbs and Haydes. Tables set titled Tenting on the Cubs Pleading for Deliverance.
Waters a former hotel porter in Topeka was sent to Hutchingen reformatory after a violent act against a cook. He later faced grand larceny for stealing a coat valued at 22 dollars. His youth spared him from hard prison time. GOULDS WILL RETURN and new heir expected at the Gould city home in New York.
In New York on March 15 the rivalry between Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World intensifies as The World slashes price to 1 cent, boosting circulation and prompting claims of grand talent moves, salaries, and strategic staff shuffles across multiple papers.
A fragmented court notice shows case caption LD G and K Smart vs Stuart filed in Shawnee County Kansas with initials and district court reference. The text references Mrs Pearl B Smart, marriage to William in 1805, abandonment, and mentions a Santa Fe Route round trip ticket offer with travel dates March 17-18 and return by March 20.
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