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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal Baily edition offers weekly delivery to Topeka and surrounding towns with mail options. Rates shown include three months for .880, one year prepaid, and weekly edition pricing per year at .20.
A cool front from the Rocky Mountains moves eastward aided by a high pressure area. Temperatures fall across the Mississippi valley and upper Midwest with frost reported in Montana Wyoming Colorado the Dakotas Nebraska and northern Minnesota. Light frost expected in lows and the frost line may reach southern Illinois Missouri by Sunday morning.
The piece critiques Democratic distrustful tone toward national credit and mocks King Corn, King Hot Wind, and silver monometallism. It notes New York banned gambling, Kansas lessons for New Yorkers, and Texas coinage debates. It mentions Jeno Haier's reading trials and financial system experiments, concluding with doubts about profit and party disruption.
A dated column condemns current officeholders for mismanaging state finances Texas is blamed for $514000 in unpaid obligations while Kansans are urged to take pride in their treasury A political note argues for or against the silver standard and party realignment citing figures from Brice and Cleveland era debates It ends with a healthbeat on baking powder purity and a chemist’s endorsement of Royal Baking Powder
A jumble of era notes from Junction City to Emporia cites quirks in local life. Lawrence readers rail against love stories in pantry papers, while Pratt folks praise tobacco plugs. A Wichita man questions truth, a Leavenworth notice hints at cemetery delay, and a small-town crowd plans spectacles amid commentary on gulls and fences. Six graduates from the State Normal School will speak at commencement, five of them women, with Eureka’s Southern Kansas academy set for a June address by John J. Ingalle for a paid admission event.
Four men in New York are highlighted for their exceptional intellect and leadership. The piece profiles their genius across fields, noting how they influence culture, business, and public life with decisive vision and sustained achievement.
A hundred judges of human nature nominate Chauncey M. Depew John A McCall Thomas G Platt and Henry Clews as New Yorks brainiest men Each led with 12 votes proving a brilliant quartet Known for wit wisdom industry and political savvy they symbolize the metropolis rise in power and influence The piece also notes Platts political career and contrasts early Conkling clash and later triumphs
The article recounts Colonel Frederick Dent Grant eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, recently named police commissioner in New York City. Born 1850 in St Louis, he served with Sherman and Custer, studied at West Point, and held diplomatic posts before a quiet New York life. It notes his marriage to Ida Marie Honore in 1874 and two children Julia Dent Grant and A B Grant III.
May 11 reports women Republican clubs in Denver prepare a major reception for Congressman Richard P. Bland. Committees organized at the Brown Palace and other venues plan a broad, nonpartisan gathering for Bland’s welcome. He will address the Broadway theater tonight on The Twenty Years' Battle for Silver and the Fight Yet to Come.
Mississippi State Bankers Association passes a resolution favoring free coinage of silver by the United States independent of any other patron. Only two dissented. Ten delegates to be sent to the Memphis sound money convention from each congressional district and three from the state at large.
An advertisement from T.E Bowman & Co promotes mortgages for cautious savers with tax and insurance oversight, notes loan care until maturity, and promises coupon and principal proceeds to investors. Also announces a four lecture series by Professor James Black at the Institute of Acts and Languages on foreign influences in English literature with ticket prices.
Kansas Mansion Jubilee in Hutchinson May 7 to 11. Rock Island offers one fare for round trip tickets on sale May 7 to 10 with final return limit May 11, 1893. A M Purves city ticket agent.
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