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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1895
Page
4
The official paper of Topeka offers daily edition delivered by carrier for ten cents weekly in Topeka or two burks, same price in any Evans town with carrier. Subscriptions: symbol three months eight dollars, by mail one year three dollars sixty, weekly edition per year. Includes delivery options and pricing.
A long sworn statement details the Topeka State Journal circulation for the year ending, noting record daily averages and wider distribution beyond Topeka and Shawnee county. The piece compares its reach with the STATE JOURNAL and discusses local election talk, political shifts, and regional coverage.
Compiled dispatches describe federal bond issuance tensions as officials reportedly push for gold purchases or bond exchanges. The piece touches on Treasury actions and Congress’s potential authority shifts, plus Kansas politics, and notes Topeka’s manufacturing growth despite broader upheaval.
The page surveys Kansas community notes from Arkansas City to Ottawa and Emporia. It cites a church mystery supper, coal shortages in Leavenworth, corn shipments to Atchison, railway talks at Parsons, and local mishaps from Wichita to Independence. Names include W S Yoho and J R Burton, with readings on creameries, hunting, handkerchief blessings, and political chatter.
A brief tribute highlights how Henry B. Plant advanced development in the southern region, praising his efforts and influence on transportation, commerce, and growth in the area. The notice emphasizes Plant’s role in shaping the South’s progress and legacy.
A long profile celebrates H B Plant, identifying him with Southers Enterprises for forty one years and praising his role in southern transport. It details his early work from New Haven express service to leading the Southern Express Co, his Civil War pass from Jefferson Davis, and later leadership of Texas Express, the Plant Investment Co, and associated rail and steamship ventures.
Charles J. Hackley, born January 3, 1887, built a vast Muskegon empire in timber and banking. He donated 200000 for Hackley Public Library and endowment, bought Hackley Place park, funded Central school rebuilds, and plans a $130000 manual training school with ongoing income. His gifts extend to Hackley Park Assembly and numerous private charities.
London’s HL Stiles, Britain’s San Francisco expo commissioner, will oversee a new international show in Montreal. The event begins around the queen’s birthday next year and runs five months, spanning most of the 1846 summer.
While waiting at the government building in Kansas City last Sunday morning, observers counted thirty seven ex Kansas residents passing through within half an hour. Of these, twenty two had lived in the city in the past year.
The burial site of Thomas H. Benton lies in Bellefontaine cemetery in St. Louis. A fragile stone marks his grave, neglected among nine Brant and Benton plots. Despite burial indifference, monuments honor him elsewhere, including a bronze statue in a St. Louis park. Also noted is a New Port Royst plan on the North Sea to serve Bruges with a two mile breakwater and canal expansion costing 0.4 million plus 2.4 million for the canal.
The race for township treasurer in Quindsto, Wyandotte County, pitted Frank H. Betton as Republican against William H. McCansick as fusion candidate. Official tallies showed 176 votes for each, prompting a dime toss to decide the winner. Betton declared he would take heads, and the dime showed heads, yielding the election certificate to the former labor commissioner under Gov. Lyman A. Humphrey.
WD Driver, the colored newspaper man who started the Bischmer in Topeka and moved it to Coffeyville, has suffered amputation of one foot after a badly sprained ankle led to bone decay. A note mentions easy payment terms at Xman, and an ad by a steam laundry offers water cleansing methods.
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