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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1897
Page
4
Trinity edition delivered by carrier for zero cents with a weekly rate to any part of Topeka or suburbia. Prices posted in Kan state laws where the paper maintains a carrier system. Buss offers three months by mail, one year. Weekly edition rates shown as one year.
Kansas weather note reports warm air arriving from Pate port with northerly winds shifting to variable. Forecast hints at changing conditions and potential temperature rise across the region.
In Cosmopolitan, John Driehon Walker outlines a scientifically based automatically regulated money system. He proposes retiring current legal tenders and government bonds, replacing them with 2 percent bonds redeemable by treasury notes and coins, designed to stabilize prosperity and cure recurring financial disasters.
From the Illinois and other state reports comes news of women gaining offices and influence. Missouri opens state jobs to women. North Carolina votes for temperance measures. a women’s temperance union forms in North Carolina and a board of visitors to a city hall is appointed.
Mrs Robinson named chairman of the committee on discipline in the city jail, with Miss Willard noting her influence. The article mentions the alum and refuge facilities and cites a physician member of the new board of school commissioners of the city of Multimere.
The St Louis Republic presents Reverend Burnham arguing newspapers should publish crime details. He says reporting serves as practical lessons and guides social reform, while suppressing information harms moral progress and public improvement. Publicity, he maintains, is the enemy of crime and demoralization.
A historical note on a brigand whose brain was donated to science to determine if criminal tendencies relate to brain structure. The examiner found no abnormal features, suggesting no clear link between brain makeup and criminal behavior. The article mentions past calls for eminent figures to donate brains for study to uncover the roots of crime.
From the Atchison Globe comes a reflective piece on mothers as train dispatchers of their households. It notes the early rising, managing of partners and children, and the emotional toll of keeping a family on schedule amid modest pay and chores. The narrator muses on domestic toil, social judgments, and the quiet resilience of women.
The article compares Victor Hugo to Gustave Doré, praising Hugo's dramatic imagination and spontaneous creativity. It notes Hugo could draw from imagination with minimal materials, creating vivid scenes as if from life, and argues his visual work matches his literary power in originality and intensity.
An Englishwoman defends propriety in fashion arguing a sailor hat suits only youth and beauty while red bonnets and red gloves tempt provocative looks. The piece blends advice on attire with social judgment, noting clothes must flatter while avoiding garish extremes.
Maurice FH Black, a St Louis billiard hall proprietor, announced plans to open a women’s public club with a billiard room, bowling alley, and other features. The place aims to provide a space where women alone or accompanied can enjoy themselves, a unique enterprise as there is only one public billiard room for women in the world, Vienna aside.
From New York to Los Angeles a letter notes actress Helena Modjeska is dangerously ill after a severe fall on February 21 during a Mage role at a Los Angeles theater. She lies in Van Nuys hospital, with friends and physicians offering care. Modjeska is well known in northern California where her family roots and farm life are often recounted.
A scattered run of humorous quotes and civic quirks from various papers. Gentle jabs at Greece politics, economic signs, and social mores surface alongside light editorials on spring, wealth, carpet care, and public bustle. Notable lines reference Dardanelles, McKinley restraint, bloodhounds in Fort Scott, and women as implied politicians.
Princess Clara as Chimay travels to Paris after receiving her March allowance, with Rigole still in her life. Edmond Le Roy reports in Paris that she refuses to marry into France, hopes for an English divorce, and eyes engagements in Berlin and London venues. She will be paid substantial sums for performances in Berlin and London, amid concerns about American reception.
Deputy U S Marshal Currier arrested Fam Hayden a colored boxer former Jabiter of the Grand Opera House on a counterfeit money charge. J R Dudley a colored barber testified Hayden gave him a counterfeit dollar October 18 and kept 90 cents change. Dudley says he later sought repayment and Hayden refused leading to the preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner John Mileham Thursday in jail on default of bond.
At the Borktl and Debevoise factory in New York City doors for the Grant tomb near completion. Col Fred T. Grant calls them beautiful. They are bone-dried pine with a bronze cover line, under three and a half tons total weight. Three panels per door feature rosettes and decorative panels. A governor from Ohio plans to attend the April 27 Grant monument parade.
General Paul Vandervoort former Grand Army of the Republic commander and Populist orator, now living in Chesterville Colorado County Texas, has organized the Southern Texan Colonization Company and launched a Chicago office. He plans to bring hundreds of settlers to the coast over the next year, promising opportunities for farmers across northern states and North Texas.
New York dispatch says the English steamer Yanaraney picked up sixteen survivors from the Ville de St Nazaire wreck. A St Nazaire boat was rescued by Creole from New Orleans with six bodies found. one alive child’s distress cited, others missing.
Chicago draws social elite patrons and debutantes for a grand ball in a month. Wealthy sponsors like Pullman and McCormick families back the event. Rehearsals begin at 101 Rush Street with 64 young women and gallant men to perform the minuet and quadrilles under Mrs. Wilmerding.
Amasa Thornyt on, of St Lawrence county now in the twenty fifth assembly district, plans to press tariff legislation to curb Canadian strawberry competition. He says Canada undercuts U S by three cents a quart due to cheaper labor and will push for duties when the Dingley bill reaches the Senate.
A striking spectacle titled The Evolution of the Earth will preview at Carnegie Hall. Garret B Serviss will narrate the birth of earth from vallhuos oceans and lands, then guide a journey to the moon and back with electrical effects and stage scenes, depicting animals plants and dramatic celestial lighting.
Avante Georgia March 23 report describes Clay Sexton Stevens clearing Pakland cemetery of pauper graves. He displayed nearly 20 dead snakes from the day’s work as workers battled furious serpents rising from decades of neglect in shallow graves and old pots.
World reports dispatches from Keuoupe claiming Emperor William’s condition is grave and his illness resembles insanity. Berlin replies that the emperor’s condition is excellent. Also noted is a Mystic Shrine event in Alexandria on March 31 where President McKinley will be initiated into the order, after earlier election in Cleveland.
A vintage advertisement claims Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia cures in one to many days. It touts rapid system-wide action and early benefits from the first dose. Testimonial from T. F. Anthony of Promise City Iowa and a Topeka druggist quote strong relief and prompt improvement.
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