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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1895
Page
4
The notice outlines newspaper delivery options including carrier service in Topeka and suburbs, with a price parity policy across Kansas towns where the paper is distributed. It details rates for weekly and monthly mail subscriptions, indicating three months for mail and annual rates.
The Topeka Daily Journal notes record circulation figures for the first half of 1894, stating Topeka’s paper set a new high. American Newspaper Directory lists daily circulation for the journal and claims superiority over rivals in Topeka and Shawnee County.
Fragmented notes mix weather chatter in Chicago with glimpses of a weekly Republican paper in Barliogams and reports on political figures in Texas, Arkansas, Florida, and Kansas. The piece references Secretary Carlisle, silver debates, and a curious Vogue of diamonds and gowns in Kansas City, with stray mentions of Warth, Kirkpatrick, Culveras, and a New York trip.
A heated opinion piece argues the cost of Smother school policy burdens citizens, warns that gold standard advocates aim to anchor national policy with sound money, and critiques party positions on free coinage. It cites lines from state papers and mocks sectional divisions over monetary theory and industrial policy.
Bishop John H. Vincent awaits home periods then travels from South McAlester Indian Territory to Atlanta Chicago and Denver before Tepes, planning three lectures in Topeka this winter. Dr Daniel McSwegan visits Topeka offering free exam and advice at Keith Block room 30.
The report describes Tupper's impressions during Hadith sessions held in a shadowed San Francisco setting. Observers note celestial themes shaping discussions and the city’s nocturnal mood influencing the gathering’s tone.
A San Francisco Chinatown tour guided by ex police officer William Glennon, now Palace hotel detective, reveals a nightmarish district. Readers see crowded streets, barber shops with exotic rituals, opium dens, heroin swindles, and a brutal underworld run by gangs. The piece notes violence, trafficking, and the ills of Chinatown, including the Blind Annie joint and the Lee and Wang family feuds.
A collage of garbled dialogue snippets, stage lines, cross references, and brief captions from various papers. The text moves through theatrical and literary quotes, urban notices, and stray reports, including a cartoonish soldier, a tailor’s shop, and a dating scene, with no single coherent event.
Fragmentary OCR reads like a collage of jokes and ads about a butcher, a cop’s death, cows and money, a shoe store guarantor, a TV sales taunt, a Mary Teas advertisement, and cheeky quips. Names and places are missing or garbled, yielding a mosaic of period humor and commercial snippets.
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