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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1894
Page
4
The State Journal Daily edition lists delivery by carrier at 10 cents a week with regional options Topeka and Kansas towns. Mail rates are shown at three months for 800 and one year for 360, with weekly edition pricing per year.
A garbled OCR item notes a three month period in 2834 showing a fifty percent rise year over year. It mentions Yorees Darcey Stare Jogewar and a teaser from June, with August dates and a signatory Homma tule. The text is fragmented and unclear.
Nov 3 weather forecast for Kap ene predicts local rains, tonight warmer, and Saturday with variable winds. The text then digresses into political commentary on free silver, Kansas voter totals, and labor issues, mentioning Shawnee Wyandotte and Sedgwick counties, Pullman, sugar trust dividends, and Alabama politics with partisan overtones.
The report praises Calderhead as honest and steadfast while criticizing the GOP platform as shaky. It notes his election by over 8000 votes, discusses party convention rights, and warns of federal endorsement shaping platform adoption amid local sentiment and political risk.
A disputed police commission race in which candidate Penwell, a Democratic county committee member, seeks support alongside Albert Parker, Oscar Bischo and A. W. Earnest. Endorsements from Col Veale and others surface while Penwell vows to avoid the contest. Overmyer signals noninvolvement. Additional notes mention patent grants and local business ads.
Captain Frederick Vehling sails the Kassiloff a 46 foot schooner with his wife and seven children from San Francisco toward Gushan and the Ladrones on a 6500 mile cruise. A former gunner in the US Navy he once crossed from Alaska with a pocket compass and clock. The voyage drew attention at Atostics World’s Fair as a daring maritime feat. The family’s 14 year old eldest daughter Marion Edison is praised as an artist musician and linguist from Edison lineage. The report extols their rugged determination and the dangers faced at sea.
The London Sketch critic argues novelists overuse the new woman, predicting public revulsion unless tone and subject shift. Meanwhile, women prove capable in business and public life as Miss Cora E. Hart runs a Toledo telegraph office during a manager’s vacation, and Miss Ivy Kinyon and Miss Maud Howard prove up on homesteads in South Dakota with steady travel to Plankinton for work and land payments.
A long itemized grocery list from The Star Grocery detailing various staples including sugars, fruits, crackers, cereals, nuts, oils, canned goods, and preserved items. The list enumerates quantities and some brands such as California raisins English currants evaporated apricots pitted plums and Queen olives, with many other pantry essentials and perishables.
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