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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1894
Page
4
Carried daily by carrier five days a week to Topeka and suburbs or other towns where the paper is available. By mail, three months cost 8 90.
The State Journal proclaims highest Kansas daily circulation and features a political expose on passes and favors at the statehouse. It discusses Mary Long and Annie feuds, critics of Pullman passes, and party tensions as Populists face scrutiny while editors trumpet broad readership and reform talk.
The writer argues workingmen defend their wages while Louisiana sugar planters switch from Democratic to Republican as tariff policy cuts greenbacks. Citing Jay Gould and railroad politics, the piece condemns official corruption, calls for anti-pass laws, and urges restraint and reform in politics to curb graft and partisan swindling.
The Grand theatre will feature Barnet of New York next Tuesday and Wednesday with Emily Righton in a leading role. The production, based on a fortune-making book refused by publishers, draws on lurid and cheerful themes with a strong supporting company. Lincoln Carter’s The Fast Mail follows on Thursday through Saturday, while Van the Virginian plays at the Musee with Sunday night lectures Around the Wall.
Local items report smallpox quarantines in Leavenworth three cases of disease declared contained by Dr H A Dykes. Rev F M Porch plans to preach at the Lutheran church after returning from his trip. A joint debate is set for Graham Missouri near St Joseph with participants Mary Late Populists Gov Stone Missouri Democrats Gen Bradford Republicans. A Santa Weland Garden City agent forwarded a box of vegetables and Peach county meals to a Boston Food and Health expo opening in October. The Northwestern Kaw River association meets in Topeka at Rev Peter Bucknoer's church next Saturday September 2 with first session at 10 o clock. A suffrage rally is announced at the Congregation Church in Duckland on September 17 at 7 30 pm with T A McNeal Mera S A Thurston and Mrs Case. Morgan quartet to provide music. Police court session noted as brief. Lowe Jamison scavenger case continued with temporary judge to be appointed and higher court review planned.
President Jordan outlines Stanford University improvements funded by Mrs. Stanford with about 4 million from the estate. Plans include a $150,000 library, museum laboratory space, a memorial chapel, girls dormitory, and a technical building to serve 2,500 students. Other amenities and a cosmetic campus expansion are noted as the work progresses.
The Pawnee lands and Indian Territory offer rich hunting grounds for autumn sport. Prairie chickens, wild turkeys, quail, rabbits, antelope, ducks, and geese draw sportsmen despite dwindling game areas due to settlement. Skilled shots brag of fast game, cautious birds, and challenging stalks across valleys and river bottoms.
North Topeka items list business trips and resident changes as John Powers heads to Texas for work while Goodman Bron reports fresh celery and a meat market at 841 North Kansas avenue. George Stansfield shows slight improvement and Mrs Bertha Stewart falls ill prompting temporary replacement at the post office. The Modern Woodmen meet at Garfield park this afternoon as local church events and services are announced.
Local items note a Monday evening quarterly conferesce. Miss Lois Reece returns from Euoporia to Quincy School next Monday. Emigrants in covered wagons head south from Nebraska toward Missouri or Arkansas. A four month old child died from lung congestion with funeral at 2 pm tomorrow on Quincy street. Rochester cemetery burial. Chicken thief steals about a dozen Plymouth Rocks, leaving some behind. Congregational church services Sunday morning and evening with Endeavor at 6:50 and sermons on Love and The Seen and Unseen. Communion after the morning service. Reform school sermon at 3 pm.
August reports show thirty three druggists in To ilsd gold liquor licenses with 6 persons served and $7.60 turned into the probate office while last month had thirty four licenses. A list of licensees and amounts attached follows including Fred Holler for July.
Three hundred Mennonites from Hays City Kansas arrive after examining the San Luis valley. The society will purchase ten sections of food and move 50 families from Maya City to farm. Also notes a patent medicine ad for Winslow’s Soothing Syrup teething remedy at 25 cents a bottle.
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