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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1903
Page
4
The State Journal reports on New York Vanderbilt ties and Cuba policy, plus rising coal prices and railway material contracts. It notes gubernatorial market anxieties, Panama and Colombia affairs, and possible constitutional reforms to curb price gouging.
Reportedly Washburn may benefit from the quarrel that ended athletic relations between the arena and the state universities. Washburn had sought football games with the Cornhuskers but Nebraska preferred opponents it deemed more desirable.
Dorothy Dix addresses perceived female honesty in a series on Disagreeable truths About Women. She argues women may lack masculine honor codes yet cites confidants and petty pilfering in hotels and dining rooms, urging a crusade for honesty among women while noting broader social duties. Kansas rural schools focus on farm life education, arguing public schools should prepare girls and boys for agricultural living rather than urban professions, highlighting the rural education crisis and the role of women in farming communities.
The article argues rural schools should modernize teaching to include agriculture and practical farm science. It stresses consolidation as a step to widen access to developments once confined to agricultural colleges. It urges rural teachers to train in plant life soil chemistry and farm topics to keep country youth from migrating to towns.
In Chicago Tribune prose a Central Labor Union meeting ends with Tepe rejected for arguing a union man may repair clothes at home. A comic scene follows as a man contemplates drastic measures and dodges the wandering delegation with a razor, stove pipe, and muttered curses as the crowd mocks him and his wife.
A mixed plate of odd notes and rumors from small towns. A Hinwafba citizen seeks artificial arms in New York. Hazleton reports a whisky incident at a social. Lightning hits the La Crosse Chieftain editor’s chimney amid subscriber chatter. Local show licenses and odd quotes pepper a sprawling, garbled update.
A fragmented humor column titled Quaker Reflections presents garbled dialogue and misread lines. The text references nameless speakers, stray phrases, and jumbled terms suggesting a satirical prose piece with humorous musings on habits love and society.
Enid’s popular mayor I A Faubion rose from horse car days to run a thriving grocery and meat business, then was elected mayor. The article praises his “man of the people” stature, detailing growth of his Enid store, workers, and a dramatic rise in public trust and business success.
Fragmented social quips on pride and jealousy, with satirical lines about women, wit, and gender roles. The text riffs on decorum, whist etiquette, and relationships, presenting a collage of witty anecdotes and observations with a dated newspaper voice.
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