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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1894
Page
4
Daily edition delivery by carrier ten cents per week to Topeka and suburbs or in Kansas towns with carrier service. Mail rates three months and one year listed. Weekly edition price per year noted.
The State Journal asserts it has the greatest average daily circulation in Kansas, noting a over fifty percent year over year rise for the summer months. It states the paper is the only Kansas publication receiving the Full Car Associated Press and is a member of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. The paper touts its Webster estype perfecting press and lists its Eastern office at 73 Tribune Building in New York with Perry Lukens Jr. as manager.
Weather notes forecast warm spells and breezy mornings across northwestern Kansas as a southerly flow develops. The narrative shifts to Kansas politics with critique of populist leadership, rail rates, and reform, referencing Governor McKinley’s impending Topeka stop and calls for decisive action and integrity in public affairs.
A Topeka dispatch argues railroad passes for state officials should end, noting New York constitutional convention limits on officials accepting passes. It cites Populist officials in Sarre County using passes and Pullman cars, urging anti pass laws to curb official favoritism.
A jumble of notes from Kansas towns reports on visits by notable figures and local happenings in May fever at Counsell Grove garden fairs in Garden City merchants shipping vegetables to New ton and beyond eclipse views at Lyons and jokes about water transport. Mentions Rev Ailing Allen county Noah’s family reunion bootstrap quips about McKinley meeting Hatchin Farm, watermelons and pecans, editorials on gold and silver parity, and political forecasts for Morrill and Luncelling.
Lexpos Sept 25 ocean bourses fall as the czar, a leading advocate of peace, nears death. A successor might seek naval ports in the Pacific or push toward the Pamire, risking war with China. Dispatches deny Russian troop movements to Corea or any planned disruption of European peace. S250 per ten. Screened Lamp Coal Topeka Qual Co.
A historical account recalls the Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota wildfires of 1881 and 1871 era disasters. It describes rapid spread driven by drought and wind, vast property loss, ruined farms, and harrowing escapes and rescues. Survivors endured smoke heat and gas as trains boats and water held dangers. The piece notes heroism by Jim Wood and relief efforts led by Red Cross figures like Clara Barton.
A fragment warns that the East Indian shipworm will, within months, destroy wooden vessels by hollowing beams and planks, leaving them weakened and non seaworthy as experts note the risk to ships and maritime infrastructure.
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