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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1897
Page
4
The notice lists daily edition delivery options for Topeka and surrounding areas with annual prices. It specifies permanent home at Topeka State Journal Building and gives contact details for the business office and reporters room.
Weather indications note generally fair tonight and Saturday with a warmer trend in the northern portion. The forecast mentions increasingly unsettled conditions toward the south and the potential for light winds and shifting cloudiness.
A garbled narrative describes a cat perched on a pine, musically unsettled, as a woodland scene unfolds with forest birds and distant voices. The piece evokes a dramatic moment of the cat reacting to a singer and birds, ending with the creature leaping away into pines.
A congressional note proposes a Festilution empowering the president to invite European engineers to advise on flood control and property protection in the Mississippi basin. The plan aims to avert repeated fire and flood losses by preventing future disasters affecting a vast territory.
Washington dispatch reports on a debate over women in the Broadway cable car era. The piece describes seating rules favoring men, noting women were pushed to back rows and warned about smoking bans, with insistence on male prerogatives and chivalry amid rowdy reactions.
A collage of misread quotes and stray notes from multiple papers. It cites claims about Rockefeller and ex torts, a quirky street scene with a shirt-walet girl, and a Denver chemist’s Cantonese claim. Miscellaneous observations include Topeka street activity and auditorium opponents.
Bishop Potter lamented the evils of large scale machinery in labor splits and the growing employer–employee divide. He warned that strikes among thousands of garment workers in Greater New York reflect deeper tensions, noting middlemen and contractors blunt accountability and push workers toward desperation.
A collage of terse Quip era observations from a local Globe page, noting political fraud, manners, thrift, ribbon wheels, and readers’ gossip. It observes graduates, teething faults, a serious merchant’s heaven remark, and odd hypotheses about geese, geographies of fat people, and the need for hard training.
The Reston Herald reports Toronto has approved Sunday streetcar service, ending a contentions dispute between business interests and clergy. A charter provision lets a vote every ten years. the latest tally shows 32,287 total with a 478 majority in favor. Citizens celebrate release from prior prejudice.
Claus Spreckels sent a $5,000 donation with best wishes to Frisco Children's Hospital and training school for nurses. The gift, accompanied by a note from Mr and Mrs Spreckels, supports the hospital's care and training programs amid other local fête reports.
May 21 Anderson Indiana workers at the Columbia Encaustic Tile works found sparrows that fell into furnaces and were carbonized and as hard as flint. Birds appeared dead but touch showed preserved form and color. Likely a vacuum caused by furnace heat, sparrows exposed for months.
Adolph Nathan lauds the Civic Federation of Chicago for civil service laws and reforms. He cites causes including arbitration conference origins, street cleaning funding, revenue bills, election law enforcement, sanitary bakery conditions, milk purity, and charity programs. The federation claims credit for Bureau of Associated Charities origins, vacation schools, and pay-roll cleanups, with prosecutions for obscene literature and efforts to curb public drinking.
Electric phastane carriages go on sale in Hartford with a fixed price of 110 dollars. They promise lower maintenance than horse-drawn carriages and speeds up to 15 miles per hour with a range of 30 to 35 miles per charge. Testing covered various obstacles and weather, showing resilience to snow and mud.
A very large steel keel echooner yacht for Georges Weld of Boston is under construction in Wilmington by Harlan Hollingsworth. Designs by A J Chesebrough show a forward forecastle for 16 sailors, a watertight bulkhead, a large messroom with berths for five stewards and two cooks, a long galley, pantry, ventilated spaces, a broad hall, a stateroom, lavatory, valet room, and a spacious saloon finished in mahogany.
The description notes maintaining colonial style for mantels, fireplaces, lockers and sideboards. The mainmast is to be lowered at the room’s after end. The yacht is proclaimed to be the finest in the world, signaling premium craftsmanship and ambition.
Miss Rana Dean Proctor, the Boston poet, arrives in New York aboard the Trojan Prince from Rio. After crossing the Andes she traveled 10,000 miles and reached the summit of a peak to compose verse, which she withholds for now. She plans to stay near Boston for months, then join another explorers’ group in Europe.
Dr Roby of this city invents a bicycle device that lets riders stop mid run yet keep their weight on the machine. A lever releases two steel bars to form supports, preserving rideability. He has filed for a patent and already attaches one unit to his wheel.
Potwin has not had an arrest since its city organization yet maintains a police judge, city marshal, and street commissioner. City attorney A H Vance drafts ordinances as needed while Wm Henderson serves as police judge without an office. Tax valuation trails Topeka by about half, keeping the levy unchanged.
Fragmentary notice reports tickets sold on July 3 with a stopover arrangement. Names and places are unclear in the readable text but indicate a travel or event ticketing detail.
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