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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1897
Page
4
Daily eftion delivered by carrier, 10 cents week to any part of Topeka or Subajis, or at the same price in any Kansas town where this paper has carrier system.
The bulletin notes general fair and warmer conditions for Chicago tonight and Friday with variable winds. No precipitation is mentioned. Strong high pressure influences the region, suggesting mild temperatures and light to moderate breezes.
A lengthy discussion on Civil Service reform tracks opposition seen at the Chicago Democratic convention and in the Senate. The piece contrasts spoils practices with calls for merit hiring, arguing salaries and efficiency across public and private sectors must guide policy, while noting political gamesmanship.
A garbled OCR mix quotes Wichita and Chanute papers, praising Kansas pride, noting officials appointing women as election judges, and various stray lines about trials, taxes, and odd phrases. It reads like a collage of headlines and snippets with many unreadable bits.
The article argues individuals can apply scientific health guidance to extend life. It warns against overdeveloped or underdeveloped muscles stressing the heart and emphasizes mental activity, varied routines, and mindful eating and rest to delay aging and boost vitality.
Fort Worth correspondent recalls cattle barons ruling Texas with big banquets and high cattle prices. A frightened young journalist warned that a farmer revolt and the hoe would end the cattle era, predicting land openings and future economic shift away from cattle.
The New York Post discusses the literature of indecency, praising the spirit of literary innovation while warning that novelty can distort art. It argues ten innovations rarely take root, as eccentricity and sensationalism tempt authors but may fail to move readers or endure.
Readers note familiar Kansas figures such as James Heeder planning to buy a Topeka home and Chester I Lone returning to Medicine Lodge while others like Renatur Stocke and id Little attend events in Lawrence. The item references Judge Stilin and a memorial address in Erie, with mentions of Billy Bolten and Alva Shebion tied to regional happenings, plus letters from Mexico and Hutchinson News competition.
The piece portrays President McKinley as a lifelong smoker, fond of cigars in every room and at all meals. It notes his illness kept him from smoking briefly, and describes visitors and household habits around his cigars while speculating on papers recounting his smoking.
The passage contrasts visitors from the North with life in Washington, describing the South as seen through fashion, hospitality, and social scenes. It highlights wealth, polite manners, and the presence of laborers and servants in the city, noting tensions around race and independence while praising southern imagery and the allure of Washington as the sunny South.
Descriptive excerpt notes Crete as a long narrow Greek isle about 18 miles wide at its broadest, mountainous yet fertile, with key cities Canea, Retimo, and Heraklion and populations of 23,000 14,000 and 10,000. It calls the island Homeric birthplace and burial ground for mythic figures, a Christian history site, and a land of volcanic upheavals with much historic ground behind its modern civilization.
Rollerskating is the Lent diversion for New York society as railer skating clubs host weekly entertainments each Thursday and Saturday evenings. Women dress in short gifts and bicycle attire while men wear knickerbockers and tailored evening wear, matching the rink’s fashionable ambiance.
A garbled Atchison Globe column riffs on social mores and old tales. It sketches wary views of women and moral judgments, notes damp morning weather, and hints at a man remarrying after a year with low income, framing a slice of early 20th century life.
A hillside collapse at Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Township near Pittsburg buried and scattered 100 graves. Coffins were crushed and bones exposed as rain saturated ground and a long neglected site slipped, prompting workers to reinter remains in a new area.
San Diego, March 25. Mesa run, once a famed scenic stretch overlooking the ocean, has become a trail across private property as owners plow, plant, and fence the right-of-way. The city has not acquired the full route, leaving a through road blocked by orchards, fields, and barbed wire along the cliffside near Johnston Heights and the Fors Stockton cliffs, with views spanning Mission Valley, San Diego River, and the bay.
Major Charles W. Miller electrical contractor of 252 Allegheny avenue died after a bicycle rider struck him on North and Irwin avenues March 12. Miller never regained consciousness and died at home surrounded by family. Rider Martin Morganstein, a well known Allegheny youth, allegedly rode faster than the city ordinance allowed.
Daniel Harris, president of New York state AFL, urged the Central Labor Union to back Governor Black on a plan to employ prisoners for making wearing apparel, growing food, and repairs, with surplus labor going to state hospitals. The proposal seeks to abolish machinery and has won positive comment from the prison board after a two and a half hour session.
A dramatic patent remedy advertisement claims a “Mystic Cure” fixes rheumatism and neuralgia in 1 to 3 days. Testimonial from T. F. Anthony of Promise City Iowa credits one bottle and two doses with greater relief than prior medicines. Sold by Swift Holliday Topeka druggists. Also notices Peerless Steam Laundry advertises shirt laundering at 112 and 114 West 8th. st
Paris March 2 A long running American divorce case resumes with Mr and Mrs Antonio Terry as petitioners. Grace Dalton Secor, once of New York, is the wife seeking a divorce. Terry, a Cuban born naturalized in New York, is said to be worth about 4 609 000 and to own fast trotters in Paris. He is linked with Miss Sybil Sanderson and other New York figures in a tangled court battle.
Chicago March 21. Professor Richard T. Ely of the University of Wisconsin spoke solo at the Congregational club dinner at the Palmer House on reforming city government. He urged expert nonpoliticians to run cities, outside candidates if needed, and a city run like a well ordered household with clean streets, cheap transport, better sanitation, improved tenements, and strict control of monopolies.
Baltimore March 26 The first part of a remarkable book on Oriental ceramic art has appeared. It cost an estimated 500000 and will issue in 600 copies. The work draws on W T Walters collection of more than 4000 pieces and aims to exhaustively present China Korea and Japan pottery with 437 black and white plates and 116 full page color plates created by seven years of lithography drawing and printing.
New York reports Howard Gould and Katherine Clemmons dining together in the winter garden at the Wharf. They lingered from 2 to about sunset while guests greeted them. Miss Clemmons appeared in a spring frock with a straw hat and flowers decorated the table. The scene fed gossip about an engagement and possible wedding.
Andrew Carnegie, still recovering from pleurisy at Alta Crest in Indian Harbor, has again sat up and is expected to leave the house soon. Doctors report continued improvement and anticipate his April return to the city residence, with May 1 sailing for Scotland and a September trip to Palestine and the Holy Land planned for Mrs Carnegie and retinue. The California Limited train service is noted in the same column.
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