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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier ten cents a week to Topeka and suburbs or any Kansas town with a carrier system. By mail three months thirty-nine cents, six months five? zero. By mail one year three eighty. Weekly edition per year fifty cents.
In dull summer months of 1910 an average daily circulation shows an increase of over fifty percent compared with the previous year, marking a notable rise for the Kansas publication.
The State Journal of Kansas touts AP affiliation as the sole Kansas paper. It lists an Eastern office at 73 Tribune Building New York and names Perry Lukens Jr as manager in a brief promotional note.
Forecast for Kansas calls for fair and warmer tonight and Sunday, then fair with colder evening, south winds shifting to northwest Sunday. Notes on railroads seeking extra charges for cattle into stockyards and commentary on political ideologies and social ideas, including anarchism socialism and utopian colonies, with stray references to figures and events.
The piece denounces personal attacks and factional sniping in a campaign as harming the parties, noting Populists and Republicans share fault. It casts David Overmyer as sick and irate after a speech, warning voters that angering the public could doom him and highlighting opposition to a woman's sailings amendment.
A garbled Kansas paper notes oddities from multiple towns. References to politics, schools, a Delphoz minister, Blue Rapids suffrage talk, Ottawa County fruit tastes, and a Seneca possum dinner event mix with playful claims about El Corsito and a preacher in El Dorailo. Also mentions Price’s Baking Powder honors at fairs.
Atherton of Fort Scott J Manus of Joplin and several men from southern Kansas were cited by Indian police near Goetunte for hunting on the Osage reservation. Their guns, ammunition, dogs and camp gear were confiscated and they were ordered off the reservation immediately. Hunters face the same action next winter on the Osage lands.
A misused German word caused a moment of offense when violinist Ludwig Biener met Rev. Danton MarcGregor and Detroit Philharmonic members at a national horse show gathering. An onlooker clarified the blunder, noting the correction to “ausgezeichnet” meaning most excellent. The anecdote underscores a language slip amid a social table.
A 19th century view portrays the Cherokee Chickasaw Choctaw Creek and Seminole nations in Indian Territory as advancing in arts of civilization. It notes a mixed population, high government expenditure, and a prominent Creeks leadership with a Black principal chief. The piece cites land trust payments, schooling, church activity, and slaveholding among tribes, detailing community sizes and major towns.
Cantor O Nov 1 dispatch surveys fakirs at county fairs as season closes. Some travel for winter, others retire to cities or real estate ventures. Stories recount thrifty acts, shell games, and disguises used to fetch profits, with anecdotes of travelers in fairs, circuses, and distant lands.
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