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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1894
Page
2
A long fragment discusses holiday gift ideas with a focus on a tobacco pouch as a stylish practical present. It advises choosing a gift combining use and beauty, suggesting a tobacco pouch with ornate embroidery and silk lining. If the recipient does not smoke, propose a decorative base with materials and color guidance.
Step by step instructions describe upholstering a stool with Indian red and olive green fabrics, staking stitches, and adding rivet trim. It covers assembling a decorative box and matchholder, using gold satin, painted Delft motifs, wallpaper strips, ribbon bows, and buttons, with details on construction, materials, and finishing touches.
Instructions describe shaping two linen pieces to form four side pockets for square bottles. Baste edges, bind with telefix braid, and sew red elastic to create secure bottle cases. Decorate with paint and gold outlining, leaving end pockets unmarked and adding simple stripe decoration along the exterior.
A nostalgic Western poker story recounts an encounter in Borela White Pine county Nevada about a gawky, tall player who dominates a game with huge chip stacks and dramatic four of a kind plays. The narrator recalls later lessons from the Mississippi River gambler life and a Salt Lake departure as the tale centers on luck, bravado, and risky stakes.
Fragmented dialogue from a society page or column depicting themes of marital friction and social vanity. A young woman laments hard-to-please husbands while debating dress, diamonds, and social missteps. Intercut with a humorous anecdote about a wine and liquor merchant inserting a promotional notice into a newspaper.
A humorous exchange shows Jlem merfiesh asking what Sew does with a dry goods box while the architect describes drawing a design for a new modern office building. The playful scene from the Chicago Record captures a moment of planning and wit.
A dialogue fragment shows Winkie explaining the doctor advised using a typerwriter to ease writer's cramp. The speaker notes arm pains and acknowledges the idea may not improve things, while a character near Newt Winkie argues against forced poetry. The exchange appears in a New York Herald and Sketch context.
A critique of the festive season as a children's day. The essay argues Christmas has become a burdensome performance for adults, filled with gifts and social obligations, while suggesting joy should belong to children who enjoy myths, toys, and simple pleasures. It notes adults face loneliness, expense, and ritual propriety, urging a kinder, quieter celebration focused on youngsters.
Special correspondence from Victoria notes a shift from leisurely old days to a hectic present. Shops now open early and close late, holidays fade, and travel speeds up. The town, about 13 000 people, has seen new roads and fine buildings including a distinctive courthouse. The piece contrasts prior ease with current bustle and comments on Chinese residents and former outlaws who disturbed the calm years ago. G. W. Clank.
The Straits Settlement names M. de Nancourt, a Frenchman famed for 500 tigers killed, as tiger slayer in chief, narrowly ahead of Major General Probyn who has slain 400. The elsam has long faced tiger infestations and reports of tigers swimming the strait from the mainland.
The article notes Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Victor, third son of the German emperor and empress, receives his family commission on his tenth birthday and soon enters naval life. He is described as the finest looking of the imperial brothers and very mischievous, often paired with Prince Kitel-Frederic in youthful pranks, unlike the crown prince and Prince Eitel-Frederic who are overwhelmed by future responsibilities.
An old instructional note explains a simple optical trick using two white cards one with a circular hole. By aligning a dark spot behind the hole and viewing first with one eye then both eyes, the viewer sees two apertures and the spot reappears, demonstrating eye dominance and handedness.
The piece explains why linemen on elevated platforms are not shocked by live overhead wires. A dry insulated platform blocks current flow through the body, preventing electrocution, while a wet surface could complete a circuit and be fatal.
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