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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1896
Page
4
The notice advertises local delivery in Topeka and suburbs at ten cents weekly with carrier routes and mentions mail subscriptions for three months and weekly edition packaging terms. It emphasizes price parity across Kansas towns with a carrier system and clarifies mailing options.
Weather notes forecast fair and colder for Chicago tonight through Wednesday with a northeast wind. Separate items discuss the Democratic free silver debate, a possible McKinley era shift, and cartoons on a westward free silver storm. Reports cite Wichita’s profits tale and Topeka Journal criticism, with Kansas City union actions and injunction debates elsewhere.
The People's Herald notes the State Journal has not proven McKinley a free silver advocate. It says the Journal merely reports records so readers judge, and promises to publish any shift toward the gold standard if that occurs.
Chicago's Sky Reader plans a bold astronomy project to trace star origins with Professor Thomas J. J. Lee and Professor See at the University of Chicago aided by the Yerkes telescope. They aim to map the evolution of stars, computing orbital deviations to uncover how celestial bodies formed and matured.
Professor Frederick Nicholla Crouch, aged author of Kathtees Mavoor peet, battles heart trouble worsened by poverty and war. He lies in Baltimore rooms on West Lombard Street on a tram couch as delirium returns to memories of Ireland and past triumphs. Dr John Fulton from University Hospital Free Dispensary fears recovery is unlikely.
The Catholic diocese of Westminster approves the canonization inquiry into Mary Stuart. The Vatican matter now rests with authorities. The Tatlor organization argues the issue focuses on whether she died a martyr to her faith, not on her historical life.
In Carthage an independent ticket lists RC Phillips township clerk for member of the board of education Mrs Loa Phillips his wife and Harry Phillips their son for councilmen H C Phillips has served three terms as township clerk and their son has just entered the field for public office eight boys in the family will vote for their parents and elder brother.
The court decides that the fast in Question is the property of the heirs of the late Rev. Dr. Gurley, prefessor Lincoln's pastor, who long led what Washington circles dubbed the Church of the Holy Locomotive for its engine like architecture.
A Chicago Times Herald spoof suggests a self made presidential surge with vigor and virtue. The United States judge rules natural gas piped from Canada under the Sagare river is a crude mineral product and thus exempt from duty.
In Denver and surrounding areas more than eight inches of snow fell last night and the storm continues with increasing severity. Forecasters warn the snowfall may exceed earlier winter totals as a cold wave spreads across the state, bringing low temperatures and blizzard conditions in affected counties.
An illustrated profile of President Cleveland in a vast leather coat and gum boots. The article describes his hunting routine on the Potomac and Virginia marshes, his large coat, belt with cartridges, and a double barreled gun. It notes his patience, frequent late evening departures, and success in bagging ducks during ducks season.
A brief item notes activity around Cranuxee P. SknNER and the Maple as preparations for another voyage or state duties loom this week. The text appears to describe looming engagements and travel, with emphasis on staying alert to developments.
London dispatch notes that Matabele forces massed in the Matopo hills as of March 31. Sir Hercules Robinson warns communications with the south are at risk, Bulawayo holds a month of provisions, but lacks rifles for volunteers while natives are reported well supplied with guns.
San Francisco in March Mrs M A Stockton a principal figure in the Brown scandal involving Rev C O Brown of the First Congregational church has been expelled from the church. Stockton resignation letter to the deacons was ignored as the committee expelled her after the verdict in the Brown trial.
Dentis Walsh of Cincinnati owns a highly intelligent Irish setter that guards the private office, confronts intruders, and retrieves a memorandum book on cue. The dog shows near human reasoning, comforts the sick, and accompanies Walsh on hunts, proving its observant nature and loyalty.
Belle Boyd the Confederate Spy was honorably acquitted before Justice Screws in Montgomery Alabama on grand larceny charges. Ex Govern or Jones defended her in his first magistrate court appearance in 20 years. The case arose from a traveling theatrical troupe’s stranded baggage dispute over unpaid board at the Merchants Hotel. The judge discharged all defendants amid trivial evidence and arguments of board bill enforcement. The report also notes theatrical notices and society gossip including a proposed dramatization and fashion limits in London society.
George L. Beasley of the Nations Fire Brigades union visits New York after arriving on the St Louis to invite American chiefs and firemen to the London June tournament. He plans Chicago Boston St Louis Cincinnati Cleveland and Canada trips as Europe Africa and South American representation grows. Chief Hale and his crew from Rome are praised for their reception in London.
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