Topeka State Journal Subscription Terms
The Topeka State Journal announces subscription options including daily delivery for 10 cents a week to Topeka and suburbs or same price in Bank’s town with carrier system. Three months, one year, and weekly editions offered. Also notes address, office phones, and advertising access at the Potter Building New York.
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Topeka State Journal
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Editor Harger's Poe and the Golfing Verse Spoof
Abilene editor Charles Merean Barger cites a playful verse from the New York Sun poking fun at golf and women players. The spoof lampoons a daughter at the links with lines about clubs, swings, and the cost of a new wheel and extras, ending with a note on Christmas gifts and scarce ducats.
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Charles Merean Barger
Abilene Heflector
New York Sun
Magdalene
Mies
Weather Indications for Kansans Tonight and Thursday
Chicago weather report notes fall conditions for Kansans tonight and Thursday with warmer readings in the northern portion and southerly winds.
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Chicago
New York World praises business revival and Topeka progress
The New York World forecasts an economic upturn with higher production and trade. It cites increases in employment, pig iron output, and railcar demand, while noteing the Bank of England’s influence on gold imports. Topeka plans an auditorium next year and shows growing enterprise.
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New York
Bank of England
Couma
Onder
Topeka
Mr. McAfee
Felice
Shawnee County
Fragmented Globe Light Humors and Local Notes
A column of humorous, fragmentary social maxims and local observations from the Globe Light section. Includes quips on economy in marriage, manners, weather, forgiveness, and playful anecdotes about red hair and appetite, with brief mentions of Kansas City life and Church White, an Atchison police figure with novel ideas.
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Wormsnamar
Ively
Kansas City
Church White
Atchison Obier
Pilice
One Trifling Conviction Reported in County Case
County Attorney Jetmore reports a lone conviction yesterday amid a string of quor related cases. The text mentions Guy Kuehle in a poetic brew office dispute and Pink Porsivy as another convicted individual, while other juries remain unsettled or cases dismissed.
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Jetmore
Gua Kuehte
Kuehle
Taree
Cyneland Expands Influence In Pension Office Move
Pension Agent Reland wins push to move Topeka pension office to the Columbian building. Ex-Governor Crawford urged retention of the Crawford building. Reland’s move lowers rents from 2280 to 1007, aided by Thomas Ryan, but Reland's pull wins. Columbian building renovations proceed. office to occupy two basement rooms and a third floor, with occupancy planned for November.
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Cyneland
Leland
Topeka
Columbian
Crawford
Crawford Building
Reland
Columbian Building
Thomas Ryan
Loland
J. Hunt
Lelaid
Shortage of Wheat C A Pillsbury Sees Flour Mills Closing
Minneapolis report notes C A Pillsbury predicts a wheat shortage will force flour mill closures. He cautions mills may not run regularly as shipments continue, and only a scientific breakthrough in cereal processing could avert shutdowns.
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Pillsbury
Minneapolis
C. A. Pillsbury
Carolan Starts Daughter of the Dead Millionaire Journeying Eastward
San Francisco October 20 Mr and Mrs Frank J Carolan left for Chicago that night Mrs Carolan is Harriet Pullman second daughter of the millionaire and was married to a San Francisco man three years ago Mr Carolan manages the California Distributing Company News of Mr Pullman s death reached Mrs Carolan yesterday morning when she learned from her father he was in the best of health a few days ago
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San Francisco
Frank J. Carolan
Chicago
Carolan
Harriet Pullmat
San Prapeiscoan
California Distributing Company
Pullman
United States the Cheapest Steel Producer in World
London report notes a long article on American competition in iron and steel. It states the United States now challenges supremacy in neutral markets and even gains a foothold in England, with permanent causes behind its position as the world’s cheapest steel producer.
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United States
London
Iron and Steel Industries
England
Bananas Wash Ashore At Cape May From J W Yellow Fever Case
Yellow jack reports after bananas washed up on Cape May strand last evening likely from the steamer John Wilson which jettisoned cargo amid a yellow fever case. Local board of health bans touching fruit as state convention notes follow. Delegates announced from Topeka including Misses Montgomery Countermine Trae Pratt Goodrich Evarts and others. Mary Gudal returns from Shanghai to lecture at the convention.
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Cape May
N. J
John Wilson
Board of Health
Baldwin
Annette Montgomery
Mra. J. D
Mary Guedal
Kansas
Shanghai
Jumped on Stage and Kissed Her at Bijou Theater
In Wilmington on October 20, George Cornelius, a member of the Willington Bicycle club, sprang from a front row wearing a wheeling suit and slapped the surprised soubrette after the line come kiss me during a Carlisle Sizers song. The uproar halted the performance until the incident subsided.
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Wilmington
Bel
Carlisle Sizers
George Cornelius
Willington Blevelr Club
Bubonic Plague Reported in Punjab Village Jaifundur
An outbreak believed bubonic plague erupted in Jaifundur Punjab district with twenty three deaths reported so far. The infection was traced to Purdamar the pilgrimage center.
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Bombay
Jaifundur
Punjab
Purdamar
President McKinley Sets Course for Congress and Cuba
Washington notes outline McKinley plans likely for the November message and Congress. He aims to push Cuba policy currency reform and foreign affairs last, with cabinet reports guiding the message. Long backs dry docks, Alger favors stronger coast defences, Gary supports postal savings bank, Wilson on seeds, McKenna on Pacific railroad deals.
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Washington
Cuba
Spain
Woodford
Madrid
Congress
Senate
Monetary Commission
MacKinney
Long
Alger
Gary
Postal Savings Bank
Wilson
McKenna
Pacific
Salvation Army Leader Targets German Emperor
Lees wet su wen and suoth of the nation Army foresees major camp in Herli on Monday. He claims the harvest of souls is enormous and predicts the German Emperor might convert if current methods continue. Gen Booth notes the Emperor could join the Salvation Army but would face discipline and conversion steps.
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Su—Wen
Germany
Booth
Salvation Army
Pelleno
No Rocking Chairs There Attention of Furniture Makers
Washington reports that American otton Seed oil duties face protest as France suffers wheat shortages and rising bread prices. Steamer ballast shipments return with American wheat while furniture dealers in America may be urged to introduce rocking chairs in France. Grain-O coffee substitute touted with low cost. Buckeye Pile Ointment advertised. local baths and drug ads included.
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Washington
Donasi Pressley
Marseilles
France
State Department
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Pressityanya
Paris
America
Scrofulous Humor and Sarsaparilla Health Revival
A former general store worker describes severe blood impurity and scrofulous humor, failing medicines, and finding relief after Hood's Sarsaparilla. After five bottles, he is strong, healthy, and never ill since. Hood's Pills aid digestion.
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Hood
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell, Masa
Treasury Robbed of Silver Dollars in Secret Vault Count
Washington reports a long running theft from the United States Treasury as silver dollars vanish from a strong box. A painstaking count of bags and coins, including past thefts by a trusted worker, reveals numerous bags containing lead and missing coin. Authorities reopen and intensify the count, with total loss uncertain but potentially in the thousands.
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Washington
United States Treasury
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Treasury
Roberta
New York
D. H. Morgan
Connecticut
United States
Tas
Mormin Lo
John Martin
Martin
Havine
Hoberts
Anderson
Roberts
Gage
Roberts i
Morgan
Hall Caine stage version of The Christian shown at Isle of Mull
The playwright Hall Caine presented a dramatic version of his novel The Christian at the Tittie theater in Douglas Isle of Mull with strict secrecy. It drew attention for business acumen as Caine seeks bidders for the drama while bids from Alr Wiland and Miss Giga Nethersole are rumored. In Columbia Judge Buchanan rules original package stores lack state protection and may face taxation or license, while confiscated liquor remains state property. Educate Tour Bowels With Cascarets.
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Wiland
Giga Nethersole
Columbia
S. C
Buchanan
Citrult
Anderech
United States
Simonton
Greenville
Klondike Women's Club Forms in San Francisco
Klondike region women form a Women's Klub of Klondike to rival male clubs. Despite rough geography, the new group adopts a stern program, yellow and white colors, and a gold pick emblem. They expect to join the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Klondike
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Kuldest Klondike
Aeberd
General Federation of Women's Clubs
A Mile a Minute Trains Neumann to Pueblo for Surgery
A Gulf road special train ran 37 miles in 54 minutes from Walsenburg to Pueblo to medico the injured sheep owner Sig Neumann who was shot in the abdomen by Paul Frohliebh, a Wal senburg council member, after a quarrel over a hide house order. Protilich says Neumann drew a revolver. Neumann denies it. Probable lie rate given as about one in 30.
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Pueblo
Colo
Gulf Road
Walsenburg
Sig Neumann
Paul Frohliebh
Walsenbure Council
Protilich
Neumann
COLOR LINE STRIKE AT DUQUOIN HIGH SCHOOL
Sixteen students were suspended for not preparing a Friday literary program. Twenty five more cold up and tiled out of the school amid a dispute over the division of color between the Pin tumb and Socratic Literary societies. Superintendent Rawlins had promised preference between four colored girls and one colored boy, stirring protests and a division plan. The board of education will decide the dispute after the students failed to respond to a deadline.
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Platonic Society
Prof. Rawlins
Board of Education
Lashes for Dinner Thief in Adel
In Adel 20, a black man reportedly received 100 lashes for entering a woman’s home and demanding dinner. After he entered Mrs. Clay’s house he sat to eat. when challenged he refused to leave and ate what was on the table. He was later found, tied to a tree, whipped with a large lash, and left badly injured. The victim then disappeared.
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Adel
Laia
McKinley to Ohio trip to influence Ohio race
President McKinley plans to leave for Carton Ohio to cast his vote and aid the Republican effort in preventing a Democratic legislature gain. He will attend a Cincinnati banquet on the 20th but will not speak on political issues. Hanna buttons flood Washington as government clerks wear them.
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Washington
McKinley
Carton
Hinana
Ohio
Hanna
Cincinnati
Greatest circulation claim for state daily paper
The piece states the paper has the largest daily circulation in the state and a daily average of 11 584 for the first six months of 1897, citing a Great authority on United States newspaper circulations for validation.
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United States
American Newspaper Directory Records Thirty-Ninth Year Status
The American Newspaper Directory is the recognized authority among advertisers for newspaper circulations and is now in its twenty-ninth year. It has a standing offer of $100 for proof that its statements on circulations are incorrect.
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Dun and Bradstreet
State Journal Claims Top Circulation in Topeka
From records for the first half of 1897 the American Newspaper Directory notes Topeka Kansas State Journal has the largest daily circulation in Topeka Shawnee County and the First Congressional District. The directory, based on signed statements by Kansas dailies, will be issued Sept 1 1897. The State Journal pays no postage on much of its edition as delivery is by carrier or express.
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American Newspaper Directory
Kansas
State Journal
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