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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1895
Page
4
The edition explains a carrier delivery plan with ten comics weekly and service to Topeka and nearby suburbs or any Kannas town with carrier routes. It also lists a mail option priced per three months for a weekly edition and per year for the annual rate.
The item notes 1891 prints with figures on daily and six month averages. It records SAB 3,852 as a daily average and cites other year values including 3834 and a six month figure for 1894. The text reflects a historical financial or production statistic.
Weather forecast for Kensan calls for light rain, clearing skies, and quieter conditions with variable winds. The report also notes a Taw colony bound for Liberia, a call to organize another party in New Orleans, and reflections on political writings and party dynamics with references to silver currency debates and Nebraska legislature coverage.
The text notes a strong New York movement backing open Sunday saloons, arguing the saloon serves as a poor man’s club where he can meet friends. Proponents claim the poor man needs such a social space, but the public may sense liquor interests behind the push and resist it.
Greensburg folks plant garden truck. Junction City hosts year end party. Wichita minister remarks on Wichita’s standing. Kansas news snippets from Emporia, Parsons, Chanute, Kiowa, Chanute, Moline and more. Vignettes on jail tramps, education nicknames, prohibition bonfires, prairie lighthouses, political feasts, judges’ careers, barbed wire country, skate prizes, Latin excuses, hogs in towns, sororities, and Delta Delts pins.
Edward A. Horner of Topeka Coal Co will move to Leadville Colorado to manage Santa Fe coal operations for a large territory. The offer came from Santa Fe superintendent Charles J. Devlin and Horner departs Topeka Thursday. The salary is about $9,000 annually.stddef
A local oddity item notes ferns from Pine Tree garden valued at about $1000 each. The unusual horticultural treasure draws attention from collectors and plant enthusiasts amid questions of rarity and provenance.
Special correspondence from Philadelphia details high value greenhouse treasures. Notable specimens include Pritchardia grande palm valued around 600 when living, rare Bismarkia nobilis, spiny auricarias from Norfolk Island, Dioon spinulosum, stag horn ferns, and exotic nepenthes pitcher plants. Orchids command vast sums, with a blue Vanda cerales valued for beauty and rarity, while seedling culturing remains a risky yet rewarding business.
The Hartford novelist Miss Morgan dedicates royalties from four or five novels to charity. Her funds built a summer program for poor girls, provided homes in Blanford Mass, and support for.deserving young women. Her father, a wealthy Hartford resident, backs her philanthropic work as she remains active with the Hartford Woman's Exchange. Her brothers include the Rev G Brinley Morgan and Dr William D Morgan.
A Des Moines man, Charles Y. Pollock, invents a ball nozzle for hoses after a potato blocks a nozzle in 1892. The bell shaped head contains a loose rubber ball that is held in place by brass loops. The nozzle can deliver a spray or a solid stream, aiding fire suppression and irrigation. Scientists debate why the ball remains in the bell, with aspirating jet theory and atmospheric pressure proposed.
A Sioux City canned foods firm recently wrote to Meeker County Colorado ranchers asking for quotations on horses by the pound. Respondents said horses would be delivered on the cars at a given live weight per pound. The note mentions a business of slaughtering horses and canning them for oriental trade. German university students numbered 25 155 in the last year.
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