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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1894
Page
2
The ad touts quality and artistic value over cheap prices, urging readers to inspect offerings before buying. It highlights chamber suites, large dressers with mirrors, carved bed room sets, and a modular combination desk bookcase system with prices from 1 to 30 dollars, promoting value and rapid turnover.
Upstairs and downstairs displays showcase hundreds of rockers in oak maple mahogany birch and wicker. Designers tout magnetic attraction and pleasing forms for wave and motion. Thompson Bros offers a large depot of rockers from multiple woods as an extraordinary collection for customers in Kansas and nearby markets.
The report notes postal department expenditures exceeded receipts by about 9.24 million dollars for the year ending June 30, 2494, with a fiscal year deficit around 1833 and ongoing losses from bid debts. It cites stamp issuance data, changes in special delivery stamps, and projected savings from new transfers and printing contracts. It also covers franking criticism, distribution of Columbia and other stamps, and issues with registered letters and packages, including losses and investigations.
Postmaster General Frank Jones submits a year ending June 30 1394 review detailing divisions of the service with staff counts salaries and proposed budgets. He urges anti fraud measures for stamped materials warns against misuse of franking privilege and notes scope of free delivery and money order operations along with dead letter office activity and enforcement against green goods schemes.
A mass misfortune struck an outdoor religious service as a crowd at North Beach gathered for a baptism from the bay waters. Wooden wharf timbers failed spilling people fifteen feet into mud below. Though tide was out, many suffered bruises and broken limbs with no fatalities reported. Authorities investigate injuries amid large turnout.
The statistical bureau of the State Department published advance consular reports on the McKinley era tariff. From Bradford to Glasgow and Columbia, the notes show a low mood at seaports and trade stimulation under the new tariff law. Michigan beats Kansas 22 to 14. Missouri loses to Ottawa 29 to 0. Yale defeats Lehigh 60 to 0. Harvard defeats Chicago 36 to 0.
A Washington letter from Honorable William L Wilson, West Virginia, chairman of Ways and Means, analyzes Democratic defeat as caused by hard times and Senate delay over tariff reform. He cites industrial slump, labor unrest, and political friction, arguing reform was not rejected but delayed and mismanaged, costing the party votes.
Peffer 18 hopeful as Governor Flower agrees to let experts test whether a man executed by electric chair can be resuscitated. Debate rises over autopsy clauses and Westinghouse claims that death was staged by postmortem procedures. Tesla allegedly contends immediate revival could prove life after death by electricity. The move could provoke widespread scientific and public interest and challenge the role of state executioners versus electricians.
Senator Peffer of Kansas says Populists gained votes despite losses in Congress noting about 2000,000 total Populist votes nationwide. He suggests future influence if Populists hold balance of power, while Senator Stewart of Nevada vows no coalition with Republicans or Democrats to organize the Senate.
Twelve hundred people gathered at Waldheim cemetery Chicago to mark the Haymarket anarchists deaths. Herr Most spoke in German, drawing away more conservative attendees. The crowd sang as wreaths were laid on the anarchist monument. Also reports a narrow derailment near Chicago and a major hotel fire in Arlington Texas with substantial losses and a bride missing valuables.
Tacoma November 12 William G Norris representing Chicago merchants syndicate wins two major contracts. Armour & Co. receives a canned corned beef supply contract for the Japanese army. A separate $370,000 deal awards cast iron pipe for expanding Tokio water works.
A veteran writer, known for his war service and medical timing, weighs moral and national duty. He compares wartime ethics to civilian remedies and notes evolving views on medicine and honor.
New York girl Emma Morwan, four, allegedly became blind after consuming cake and other sweet meats. Doctors traced the condition to indulgence in cakes and pastries, noting spells of blindness followed by improvement then recurrence. The case drew comment from specialists and was sent to a New York physician for further study.
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