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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1894
Page
4
Fractured OCR shows garbled masthead and subscription details from the State Journal. The fragment mentions Topeka Kansas, weekly edition, and a press room with imperfect printing, suggesting a damaged or misaligned page text.
Weather forecast notes fair skies and rising temperatures with southerly winds for Kaneas. The piece also reports on political discourse in Topeka, with mentions of the Populist party, judges, prohibition, and the Independent voter as a reform force shaping party dynamics.
A report discusses Geymnat Corer courting Congress in the Mississippi district with a circuslike campaign plan. It notes a prior Populist proposal and questions ad spending as a political tool. The piece also critiques Senator Perrin's tariff vote and its impact on price, profits, and consumer costs.
J B Jennings weekly weather crop bulletin notes above normal temperatures but ample sunshine and rainfall across the state. Abundant rain favored southeastern areas while northern counties saw less. Grass revived, gardens revived, corn in silking, stock water improving, and preparations for wheat begin as flax and date crops recover. T B Sexsence, Observer Weather Bureau Director.
A New York family in Wentchester County features two dignified sisters and a single brother who mounts a bicycle for exercise. The sisters enact a comic, ill-fated bike display on a moonlit night causing chaos on the tennis court and garden. Injuries follow: torn net, broken poles, bruises, and scattered turf. The brother laments a brick dropping on the locked bicycle. The sisters remain unhurt and stoic.
The Brotherhood of St Andrew, formed in Chicago eleven years ago by a Bible class, is preparing for a Washington convention in October. Led by James L. Houghteling and spreading from Episcopal circles, the society aims to win young men to church work, with growth noted across Canada and Australia and talks of expansion to England.
Advertisement lists large crochet quilts priced at 1.00 1.25 and 1.50 each plus children s extra heavy ribbed black cotton hose 15 and 25 cents per pair men s heavy ribbed black bicycle hose 50 and 75 cents per pair and ladies and gents medium weight underwear at very low prices odd lines to close out
Sept 11 Maine voters swung decisively to Republicans in the state’s biggest victory. Cleaves may have 70,000 votes for governor despite a drop from 180,000 two years ago. Democrats defeated in all sixteen counties and in most cities. Four Republican congressmen elected with larger majorities. Republicans win both legislative chambers, with a solid Senate and a House of about 137 Republicans to 14 Democrats, according to early returns.
The Santa Fe general office announced free seed wheat transport to Kansas and Oklahoma counties with crop failures. Applications go to F.C. General Freight and J. E. Frost, with county commissioners controlling distribution. Also notes on Russian nightingales teaching music and a mock English sham-fight in England.
A telegram from the Japanese legation reports a negotiated offensive and defensive treaty between Cores and Japan, defining mutual relations and toward China. The pact was signed at Seoul on August 26, claiming no further fight. In other items, Jackson refuses to sign Corbett-Jackson agreement, a receiver is named for the Atchison bridge, Washburn classifying new students, and T B Sweet to speak at Washburn College.
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