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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1902
Page
4
Fractured masthead text from Topeka State Journal shows volume and issue marks with garbled line items. Mentions daily and weekly editions, delivery by carrier, price hints, and office notes amid unreadable OCR.
A dense, jittery historical wire report from Topeka’s State Journal era offers scattered notes on weather, beet crops, coal prices, elections, and local politics. It mentions Governor Cummings, Hearst’s possible congressional run, and Craddock’s campaign, with fragmented commentary on sewers, taxes, and school Bible debates.
A Topeka Commercial Club discussion urged embracing an annual gathering of Gxt Fellows and delegates from districts. The speaker argued that inviting the meeting would boost local business, justify travel expenses for delegates, and calm discontent among those who felt unwelcome in past venues.
An analysis claims treasury mismanagement by critics of policy and argues the country remains prosperous. It states banks still fund marketing operations, Wall Street troubles are isolated to speculative traders, and New York farmers merchants and manufacturers do not seek treasury aid. The piece condemns stock jobbers and reckless speculation.
Treasury figures detail inland and coastal trade shifts across the Great Lakes, South, West, and Pacific areas. The August intake shows record Western market activity for the year, while Kansas City and St Louis shipments rise 7.29 percent in the first five months, with mixed Chicago and Chicago area freight data for the year through August.
The weekly grain shipments averaged lower than last year with Nour at 131904 barrels and 2235000 bushels of grain. Provisions ran 24678 tons per week in 1142 and 27766 tons in 1901. Great Lakes freight totals continue to outpace land routes, with August inland receipts reaching 6,790,673 tons. For the year to August 31 domestic freight receipts totalled 22,702,50 tons, versus 29,682,290 tons in 1901. registered tonnage this season reached 46,625,085 tons across 49,709 clearings and 45,159,002 tons across 49,158 arrivals.
In Topeka the state board of charities faced with charges against Bedwell's private asylum heard testimony selectively. The board refused to admit a sworn account alleging patient abuse and death, citing a May 15 1902 cutoff. Residents urge the board to conduct a full, fair probe and shut down the facility if warranted.
A appointed bulletin notes 73 books issued by large houses in one week disputing the demand for books. It lists 1 fellow titles 2 travel 15 children 2 school and 34 miscellaneous. Authors like Cyrus Townsend Brady publish many works yearly to keep printers binders and printers busy.
A jumble of local items from Pratt to Goodland notes unusual happenings and stray anecdotes. References include currency trades, opium suppression, farm updates, Lonesome Hollow attendance, and municipal chatter in Riley and Leavenworth counties with regional quirks and oddities.
A Winfield man must trade his old cast off for a tandem after an event. An Elk Falls resident plays a trick by locating his own lost pocket for which a $100 reward was offered. A Preston man has lived near a missing sister for 18 years without finding her. Miss Stewart is recovering slowly from fever. A partisan paper urges readers how to vote by marking an X. Teed of Pleasanton resigns after 20 years as Prisco section foreman. Questions arise about strokes of the pick and paths delivered.
Roving observations from the Atchison Globe cover light vignettes on manners and quirks. A reader encounters quips on politeness, ambition, love, laziness, and everyday absurdities, from children saying thank you to a world of idle worries and comic misstatements.
A fragment from Quaker Reflections critiques bravery and self perception, noting men lacking self confidence rarely inspire others and women’s statements may mislead. It parodies social norms with quips about appearance, ambition, and domestic roles, ending with a caricature of a custodian or inspector.
A fragment from the Chicago news column reflects on torpid moods and human foibles. It contrasts misfortunes with personal responsibility and notes cynicism toward fame, health, wealth, and history with casual, aphoristic lines.
A fragment notes a bachelor named Dene, a quarrel over control in marriage, and a frontier girl joke. It records P. Hotmar and Captain J. Go. Waters at a county commission meeting on election politics, with partisan quips about voting and God in Kansas. The meeting ends in a discussion about voters and influence.
A Kansas newspaper piece denounces campaign gossip as it targets Bun Adams of El Dorado and Archie in Butler county. It questions personal rumors about a buggy ride and a hay wagon tale while noting Shawnee county ambitions and a ping pong desk rumor. The column mocks political smears and mentions local civic groups and court strikes.
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