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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1895
Page
4
Classified notice lists subscription options: carrier delivery at nine cents weekly for Topeka and suburbs, same price in Kansas towns with carrier systems. Mail rates: three months for 90 cents, six months for 360, or one year at 0.60.
Oricaco May 18 forecast for Kansas calls for fair skies and much colder conditions with frost tonight and Sunday. The piece then drifts into mixed commentary on free silver politics, quotes on wages, wheat prices, and public sentiment toward the gold standard, ending with reflections on miners and justice amid a broad economic backdrop.
The passage argues that large groups of Osage county coal miners suffer from unmet needs and a systemic wrong. It suggests charitable aid and reform, including railroad rate changes that do not discriminate against these workers, as potential solutions.
A reader-drawn panorama reports Scranton destitution confirmed by a Kansas City Star correspondent detailing a miner's wife and two children eating their eighth meal of raw onions, dry bread, and water. The piece condemns efforts to deny hardship and promote relief, while noting baking powder tests and political musings on gold and silver standards.
One fare round trip to Colorado Texas Arkansas Arizona Oklahoma Indian Territory Missouri Louisiana Utah New Mexico. Tickets sold May 21 and June 11. Valid twenty days with certain stop over privileges. Rowter Bros and W C Ganver, agents. Why not take your wife or sweet heart to dine at the National tomorrow.
The General Assembly notes the Presbyterians' major gathering in Pittsburg moving forward with sessions and discussions. Delegates from multiple churches convene to address church affairs and upcoming decisions at this prominent regional event.
The region around Pittsburgh is famed as the nursery of American Presbyterianism with roots tracing to early Maryland missions and Fort Duquesne era. It details founder Francis Makeme, Rev John McMillan, Bethel and Lebanon churches, and the growth toward the first general assembly amid 18th and 19th century doctrinal shifts.
Horace Tarior, a Chicago artist, contributed several Dougety sketches to the Times Herald of Chicago. The pictured scene shows a jovial traveling tale about waiting for train time. The drawing evokes the half hour's wait and the merchant's jobs, told with vivid distress that heightens interest.
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