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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1894
Page
4
The State Journal announces itself as the official paper of Topeka offering daily curbside delivery at ten cents per week and mail options. It outlines three month and yearly subscriptions with carrier and town delivery details, including Kansas towns with carrier systems.
The State Journal proclaims the greatest daily circulation in Kansas for the three dull summer months of 1904 with an over fifty percent wear increase. It notes national recognition as the only Kansas paper to receive the Pull Day Angocisted Precs for member American Newspaper Publishers Association. The mention of an Eastern office at 73 Tribune Building in New York includes Perry Lukens Jr., manager.
Fragmented remarks reveal factional tensions as Jones and the committes clash with Curtis and Scott over debate roles and alleged favors. The Topeka Slave Journal notes state assessors hold Pullman accounts and a pass scandal involving Attorney General Little and Judge Poote prompts calls for accountability.
A Kansas city discussion laments free coinage and silver support while accusing officials of corruption through railroad and Pullman passes. The Free Press cites state ethics concerns, urging scrutiny of officials and party partisanship. It cites Asbury, Curtis, Scott, and Topeka journalists debating rail passes and political accountability.
A rough collage of early 20th century notes reports a Salina gypsum plant planned near Hulland Cross, various community notices including a Presbyterian synod in Salina starting October 4, misprinted figures and scattered local happenings. Mentioned are a coroner’s jury on medicines, a discontinued Stuart post office, school and church chatter, and small town price quirks amid chaotic, garbled prose.
A long syndicated piece by Ida B Wells and others discusses postwar race progress, white and black class divisions, and the danger of lynching. It argues progress depends on white improvement, urges black self organization, and notes the need to curb mob violence while welcoming English visitors to the South.
Our stock of dry goods Notions millinery and shoes arrives and will be ready for sale by September 29 at 108 East 6th Street. All cash purchases with one price to all, newly bought after tariff discounts, lower expenses than rivals, and plans to advertise soon with “plums” for readers.
In Ohio on September 24 the local Populist group denounced General L C Frye the industrial army leader. He urged a revolution using the Populist cloak to gain work and influence. Populist leaders warned Frye against using Populist meetings to plot against the government and exposed his schemes. Frye’s background as a San Francisco drawing instructor and railway shop master was noted as part of his profile.
Dr Parkhurst visited a north side district urging reform after praising some good men in Tammany and aiming his message at women. He told Bethany Presbyterian Church that women can influence sons to avoid vice, while noting a few banded thieves remain.
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