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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1901
Page
4
An assorted Topeka State Journal digest cites British actions on De Wet and Kruger, U S party intrigues, and election chatter. It mentions Carter Harrigan, Morgan and Carnegie debates, and Arkansas jury reform, plus voting totals by state and a remark on wealth and philanthropy.
In Topeka a week from May the voters decide if the city should choose a bond or service plan to fund street and public shop improvements. The measure will shape the city’s future and impact property costs for residents and owners.
From the New York Journal a critique of municipal ownership for streetcar lines. The piece argues private owners will not cede control, contrasts public air and governance with private fare, and calls on citizens to awaken to demand better, honest government and avoid rapid, costly changes.
The article notes a sudden drop in theater box receipts in Topeka over the past two weeks as large touring companies, including James K. Hackett Blanche Walsh and the cast of Way Down Beat and He Took She Loved Him So, tour with prices near 1.0 million in Wichita and similar markets. Topeka audience turnout has fallen despite strong company names and prices.
In Topeka two efforts to establish a Methodist university surface after a failed prior project near the city. Elea Chrieman left funds to found a Topeka campus if friends match her estate, amid Baker University interest and a demand from local Methodist students, with 1800 potential students in the city and at Baldwin College.
The government offered 6 000 acres for Port Hays land to support an agricultural college and normal school, but questions arise whether the land was government possession at offer. Settlers had begun settlements and claims, and appraisal terms may force them off as 20 percent more price targets the land. The western state farmers push back against perceived pork barreling.
The piece discusses a demand to compensate settlers before the state seizes land for progress, urging payment for titles lost. It then shifts to a 1901 baseball outlook, praising fanfare, league rivalries, and team prospects including McGraw's Orioles, the Chi Cubs, the Boston club, the Pirates, and St Louis Cincinnati, with bets on outcomes as the season nears.
As the Kansas penitentiary mutiny highlighted acts of personal bravery, the piece argues courage arises from all social levels, not just the elite. It defends the brave inmates, notes critics sought fault, and urges political restraint to preserve the state’s integrity and patronage during management changes.
A garbled excerpt shows pointed, typonymic paragraphs railing at widows, fools, and the poor with cryptic proverbs. The voice mocks greed and pretends wisdom, mentioning a “Richie” and a forest man while riffing on honesty, advice, and earthly happiness.
Review outlines Dr J ene Memon's completed Doak project and a forthcoming children’s volume by Herbert S Siuse Co. Readings include selections from Richard Yea and Nay, with a note on its popularity, editions, and distribution. The piece praises the author’s vivid characters and moral aims, and discusses the educational value for youth, stressing accessible language and pictorial embellishments.
A mosaic of light quotes and wry observations on manners and wit. It blends aphorisms on virtue and advice with playful dialogue snippets about manners, dogs, and daily life, reflecting a nostalgic newspaper feature tone.
A jumble of OCR fragments mentions smallpox patients, a Seventh Day Adventist church, and various county or town names. The text references grasshoppers in Gaylord area slopes, a police court question in Holton, and odd phrases about a town dog named Mr. Bush, all without coherent context or full sentences.
A jumble of local notes reports bizarre incidents in Doniphan, Scandia, and Ellis counties. A dancing bear, a sane scare, cemetery neglect, Rock Island lines, and pastor counts mix with medical study plans, spiritual permits, and spring fashions. Fragile town lore and odd jobs color a curious midwestern page.
A compilation of humorous and pointed vignettes from the Atchison Globe recounting social quirks. Notable moments include unmarriage quarrels ending in divorce, a wife testing her son’s clever tricks, and light exchanges about manners, nose blowing, and local reputations.
Ex postmaster general William F Vilas, in Washington on local business, recalls telling intimate friends of Grover Cleveland his plan to resign the presidency to counter public rumors about his family. Vilas said Cleveland, rarely breaking silence, was angered by sermons alleging mistreatment of his relatives. A Massachusetts preacher accused Cleveland in a sermon, prompting Vilas to discuss the episode with Woodley Lang and Mrs Cleveland.
A garbled passage depicts a tense scene with a mother sewing for a child, accusations of an online attack, and a confrontation involving a minister or preacher. The speaker vows to expose alleged insinuations andCalumnies and to take action for a perceived wrong, implying a local dispute.
An incomplete clipping mentions a disease outbreak with scattered phrases about cures and health efforts. The readable text includes hurried, unclear references to patients, treatment attempts, and authorities, but lacks concrete names, dates, or locations.
A garbled excerpt mentions Sweet Cir, fort tos mewn, friend queries about calling or social activities. It references a person named Mr. Nleefello and a weekly task, with unclear context about opera and activities over nights, producing a jumbled local-interest snippet.
Fragmentary OCR text notes an inconclusive statement attributed to a writer F. 4. Grogn of Limatey with unclear references to indigestion and a unit at Degen. The legible portions resemble a garbled inquiry or personal note without coherent facts or identifiable entities.
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