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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1895
Page
4
The State Journal Daily lists delivery by carrier at ten cents a week for Topeka and surrounding areas including neighboring towns served by the paper. The notice specifies uniform pricing across all covered regions.
Readable fragments touch on Democratic woes, Cleveland era politics, bridge construction, and weather notes. Names like Grover Cleveland, Topeka, and distant towns appear amid stray columns and public notices in a midwestern newspaper layout.
A dense editorial critique discusses Grover Cleveland's policies, tariff influence, and gold standard opposition in Kentucky and Ohio campaigns. It argues Democrats and independents joined Republican majorities, condemns bond issues, and analyzes arbi tration limits, voter reforms, and public utilities from a late 19th century vantage point.
SUFPFRAGISTS AT EUREKA They Will Hold Their Annual Meeting Week After Next. The Twelfth annual session of the Kan- A Suffrage association will be at Eureka on November 21 and 22, beginning at ten oclock. Delegates from Topeka include Mra T. O. Case, Dr Eva Harting, Mrs F3 Lyon, and Cornelive Carey Hart. State officers named: Daum M. Jonas president, Mrs A ch vice president, Mrs Emma L Albright recording secretary, Mrs Elizabeth Tropkine corresponding secretary, Mrs Cardy E Tilksay M.D. treasurer. Reunion details, reception at Mrs George Morrison’s residence, and address by Elwin Tucker of Topeka. Speakers include Judge Aloer, Hortos of Topeka, Lauria Gregg, Custer Cuspman, and Antie L Diggs. Round-trip fare set at one third via certificate plan if 100 attendees pay full fare at Santa Fe and other roads.
A lively brawl near the Second ward polls ends with Mate striking Hillerman and Hillerman delivering a knockout blow. Mate is arrested and fined five dollars in police court. Also notes travel promotions for Chicago and Grand Trunk routes to New York and eastern points with vestibuled trains and dining cars.
A fragmented, lyrical Riverside piece wanders along the Thames embankment near Westminster Abbey and Big Ben. The narrator ponders London, love, class, and history while imagining ancient invaders, the arch of Waterloo Bridge, and Cleopatra’s Noodle. A sidestep touches a fruit dealer’s odd advert about shoelace holes.
Lawrence dispatch profiles Chancellor P. F. H. Snow of the University of Kansas who uses a fungus Sporotrichum globuliferum to attack chinch bugs and other pests. His method involves infected bug boxes sent to farmers, with trials in Washington, Oregon, and beyond, sparking interest in Europe and prompting further scientific pest warfare.
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