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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1894
Page
4
The notice lists subscription terms for The State Journal including daily carrier delivery at 10 cents per week to Topsite and suburbs or Kansas towns with carrier service. Mail options: three months for 3.90, one year for 14.40. Weekly edition priced at 89 per year.
A fragmented report notes that for the three summer months of 1804 the average daily circulation was the greatest in Kansas with an increase of over fifty percent in one year. The text appears garbled but indicates a notable circulation surge and mentions a measure or period tied to a newspaper context.
Fragmented weather update forecasts colder tonight and fair warmer Saturday with NW winds. Political blurbs note Josph W. Ady's U S Senate candidacy, city engineer funding debates, and a dividend pledge by a car company. Includes editorials on reform, Dr Holmes death, and Ellis county voting patterns on suffrage.
An eclectic Kansas column surveys political jockeying and social tensions across towns like Topeka Dodge City and Seneca. It mentions state figures a U.S. water ship candidate and local entertainers while noting weather, industry, and civic life in a lively, opinionated slice of public discourse.
Pullman says he will issue a statement after reviewing many documents and statistics in Chicago. He will not discuss the Commissioners' report yet, stating he wants to present a weightier reply than prior talks. He and associates will devote time after returning to Chicago to prepare the statement for public release.
Nov 16. Ex-secretary of war Stooten B Elkins cites Nathan Up as possible successor if Judge Goff runs. President Cleveland linked to successor Wilnece on the bench. Meanwhile Commodore Robinsons daughter plans to leave her husband Clarence Clark, jailed for larceny, for relatives in the West.
Colonel Burrows of Montana recites a near fatal encounter while prospecting along the Rockies. A large centipede clung to his arm as a hungry bear approached, a Crow Indian fired nearby, and Burrows barely escaped by leaping aside as the bear toppled into a ravine. He eventually secured the bear’s hide with help from companions.
Frank H. Mason, U.S. consul general at Frankfurt, reports to the State Department that American railway securities have fallen out of favor in Germany. He cites mismanagement, evasions of responsibility, and calls for federal law to regulate elections, reporting, and prosecutions to restore confidence and curb abuses in railway companies.
Prominent attorney Major Moore warns in Muskogee and Fort Gibson of rampant banditry led by Bill Cook. law enforcement strained, business paralysis, and widespread depredations across the territory. Meanwhile a playful fiction fragment from New York Herald exposes domestic chatter and dating mischief.
At First Reform Church in Brooklyn on November 16 the consistory hinted a possible call to Rev Dr Talmage. The pulpit is now occupied by Rev A W Mills who has been asked to resign. The church is among the eastern district’s largest and is debt free with many prominent business members.
Dispatches from Yokoyama dated Nov 16 report Field Marshal Oyama likely to renew the assault on Port Arthur. The Chinese garrison is estimated at 16,000 men across arms, with operations aimed at forcing a fall in the beleaguered port.
Capt J Lee Knight reports a detailed corner stone laying for the new courthouse with no souvenir for participants. Revival services start Sunday at Wesleyan Methodist Church corner Third and Jefferson streets conducted by Rev H Abbott and wife. Rev O W Cooper is the pastor. Purman’s Prescott & Co moved to 118 West Eighth Street. Try Formano’s 3 Warranted Shoe.
A scrambled OCR fragment offers snippets of daily humor and chatter including parrots repeating words, family squabbles over a sliver penbulder, and light exchanges about wives and weather. The piece mixes joke lines, stray names, and miscellaneous phrases from periodical pages.
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