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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1894
Page
4
The State Journal Topeka edition advertises a weekly issue for the year with wire service coverage from Associated Press and full day despatches. It notes machine printing and local circulation details while stressing timely news from national and regional sources.
Weather notes forecast fair and cooler for Saturday with northwest winds. Amid political chatter on populist passes, reform, and Kansas figures, the text riffs on figures like Lewelling and Breidenthal, plus editorials from The Journal and other papers, interlaced with stray names and observations.
Local readers report satirical takes on Gov. Lewelling’s public speaking patterns. Critics mock his climaxes and mispronunciations, noting a tendency to shout awkward phrases and strain for emphasis amid a wave of laughter and commentary.
A reader questions city spending on the pound, citing an invalid ordinance and seeking details on payments to Thomas Durham for dead dogs, contractor contracts, and whether the city clerks published ordinances as required by law.
Grand Master Machinist O Connell spoke behind closed doors to about sixty machinists at 420 Kansas Avenue in Horton. He favored arbitration over strikes and noted the IAM's growth to 450 local lodges with about thirty thousand members, saying the union originated in Atlanta and that he would speak again tonight in Horton. He was accompanied by G L Glen, head of the grievance committee, and the day included a stop at Horton after leaving Richmond VA.
Tomorrow Stevenson and Co will auction a sale of 10 dozen Biarritz Kid Gloves at 75c, 20 dozen Gent's White Unlaundried Shirts reinforced front and back, described as a beauty. An odd lot of Gent's Balbriggan Shirts at 15c, and 10 dozen Ladies' All Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs once 15c, offered at a low price.
James H. Cianx a former general foreman and ex officers of Capital Lodge No 19 rebut claimed railway union data in a Star Journal letter to the editor. He argues misstatements about Rogue RB and B M membership and delegates, notes foreman dismissals, and attacks the Railroad Register as a Populist paper.
Thirteen jurors march from the depot to the city park to inspect the scene where stolen goods were found as the Rock Island freight car robbery case proceeds. Foreman James Burgess and John J. Guy lead the panel while other locals react. executive session follows the field trip. Charlie Andersen and Sam Leys face trial as accomplices, with readers invited to follow further updates in the weekly Waeuta.
A young man posing as a missionary used a secretarial letter from the M M A to shop in a Brooklyn store. He selected patent leather items and expensive apparel while the clerk, realizing the fraud, alerted authorities. He was arrested near delivery as he left, confessing regret over the pink shirt and patent leathers.
At the session today of the yes Union congress it was resolved to demand that the government cut the landing of destitute aliens. HL Wilson M P for West Hall noted the well known Poe new owner and said there were 56 000 foreign sailors on board British ships. Webb Harris Bonnett s Fiats.
D O Mills sails from San Francisco to begin a voyage around the world visiting the Sandwich Islands, Japan, China and India before Egypt where Mr and Mrs Whitelaw Reid join to sail from Gibraltar. They plan to travel from the Nile to the Dead Sea and Sinai then return to New York by June. Also noted is a September 7 meeting of Sabbath school superintendents at the YMCA to canvass city children and ensure representation from every Sabbath school.
The Santa Fe line advertises round trip fares from Chicago, Pittsburg, Columbus, Indianapolis and other points to Kansas City at 821.50. A Sunday service returns at 6:28 pm from Kansas City Union Depot. Train departs from 454 Fe depot at 7:35 am with a reduced fare of 150 for the round trip.
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