The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-20

ING Inc Boy From EmpOria played
UP in yesterdays Sunday Capital. which
contained at least one fine, well illus
trated article, now offsets the story
printed in Chapter VII. this paper, Oc-
tober %. and entitled 1.-The Boy From
Garnett.' Thanks awfully.
The noon edition has exclusive fea-
lures. 1t prints Goldberg and other
cartoons which may be crowded out
of the regular carrier edition. The
noon edition is not delivered by car
rier: only sold for two cents per copy,
payable on delivery.
The daily noon edition of the Tope-
l1a State Journal is sold on the streets
CT Topeka every noon business day
after about 11.15 every morning, and
on all the various railroads on the
noon trains leaving between 11:40 in
the morning and 1850 in the after
noon.
It is the evening paper for big
portion of the state of Kansas
1t is the first and only paper in the
world printing a page in colors red,
blue and black daily. BY mail post
paid, one hundred days one dollar.
This has been said in these "Remin-
iscences'' before.
That edition is on sale on the streets
of Topeka between 11:3O a. m. and 1870
o. m. for two cents per copy; should
be obtained from nearly every news
stand in the state of Kansas in the
territory west and southwest of To-
peka on the day of issue, but at news
stands always five cents per copy.
Our noon edition IS a tremendous
success over the state. but in Topeka
there is doubt about it. according to
Secretary Kelley, due to the apathy
of few of the Commercial club bust
ness men who lunch at the club.
J. Will Kelley told the writer last
week that the consensus of opinion
among the business men who came to
the Commercial club at noon about a
hundred representative citizens, so far
as he had heard expression, was ''There
is no demand IN Topeka for the noon
edition of the State Journal
This was a strange statement as
the noon edition has been a phe- |
nomenal, success outside of Topeka;
five hundred copies of it We're sold one |
day at Dodge City.
Notwithstanding Mr.. Kelley's state
ment, and we think the particular
residents with whom he talked are in
error, although honestly so, the noon
edition has been a tremendous success
in Topeka and is in great demand by
the Topeka merchants.
The business men of the city of To-
peka We're never so eager to get into
the state Journal as they are now to
get into the noon edition. Nearly every
big merchant now hands in his copy
the day before. knowing that by doing
so he gets a large additional benefit
sob
his advertisement He gets the service
OF all the street and news stands sales !
in Topeka, and of all the big outside
calculation i'll the towns tributary to
Topeka trade.
Some of the business men seem to
be telling Mr.. Kelley one thing, while
other business men fully as represent
alive, are acting along an entirely diff
ferent lire.
If the noon edition with its expen-
sive color page every day be a failure
it will be largely chargeable to the
members of the Commercial club who
made the above statement to Presi-
dent Kelley.
If a feather factory. violin fac
tory, or a canning factory We're pro-
posing to come to Topeka the Com
mercial club would get Immediately
busy. hold a meeting and endeavor to
foster the enterprise: probably con-
tribute several hundred dollars, or a
few thousand, to helping a new re-
sponsiple factory along.
The State Journal is a big. welI-es-
tablished manufacturing concern, pro-
baby sustaining more than five hum
dred Topeka people, men, women and
children. 1t is not asking for any
money, aid or sympathy.
If from twenty-five to fifty mem
bers of the Commercial club will meet
today or tomorrow and pledge them /
selves as individuals to buy the noon
edition of the State Journal every day
of the elevator boy at the Commercial I
club or of newsboys, at two cents per
copy five days in the week (they need
not buy the Saturday paper unless
they want to, the Saturday paper will
take care of itself) the noon edition
of the State Journal will be a success
We will get a revenue if twenty five
members do this. of 25 cents per day :
The colored inks alone cost this paper '
SIS or 81 daily; but the indirect bene-
fit will be large.
At the same time the Commercial
club business men pledge themselves as
to pay two cents per copy
every noon for the noon edition of the
state Journal while the expensive color
page lasts, or limit the pledge say for 7
30 to 80 days, they might pledge them
selves to agree to subscribe, If they {
do not DO SO already, regularly for the t
Morning Capital, or to buy it every
morning and Sundays at its regular