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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivered by carrier for 19 cents weekly to Topeka and suburbs or other Kansas towns with carrier service. By mail three months 90 cents, six months 1.80, one year 3.60. Weekly edition 60 cents per year.
Mrs. Anna Wells of Washington county emerges as a leading suffrage activist amid a crowded Kansas political scene. The piece notes shifts in party fusion rumors, a Topeka music quip about Trilby, and regional vote dynamics affecting legislative representation across Shawnee, Osage, and buffalo grass counties.
The article recounts Towns of Brooklyn who, famed for poetry that pays, earned about 266 900 from doggerel tied to a court case. It explains his unlikely muse came from an old man Broone who urged rhymed summaries of legal tales, leading to a large inheritance.
Nathan Straus, Tammany candidate for mayor, comes from a prominent family with political ties to President Cleveland. Born in the Rhine region in 1835, he built a mercantile career in New York and is noted as a philanthropist who once sold coal at cost and offered sterilized milk cheaply. The piece also mentions a papal Easter egg described as an ivory shell with a ruby.
Danver reports women nearly equal to men in registration totals with 61 400 names on city books and county figures expected to surpass 70 000. If seventy percent vote, future turnout will exceed double of years past. Also notes a New Jersey woman patent for a tamper detecting envelope seal and a Florida water turkey incident where a boy’s strike killed a passerby.
Aronson Kansas Oct 22 Col Everest 50 percent former general attorney of Missouri Pacific died this morning after years of service. The Pacific extension north and west was built, and he served as counsel in the famous invest ment and represented this county senate. Mr M Seelig and others visited Kansas City yesterday after a visit with her priest Mr and Mrs Diment. 82 calls up the Peeries.
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