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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1895
Page
7
City treasurer presents a month ending January 1895 statement of all accounts showing condition. The report bears official attestation and includes publication date and compliance notes for the ordinance taking effect upon publication.
Dennis Reardon, a totally blind Boston architect and printer, designed plans for the library, natural history building, Howe building, Perkins Institution tenements, and the Massachusetts School for the Blind. He uses raised line drawings or pins and string to outline layouts for tenements, and explains to a draughtsman. He is also foreman in the printing room for blind reading material and books for multiple New England libraries, with expansion plans for his printing and workspaces.
In a shop a dealer explains modern French potters imitate Holland Delft so well that experts struggle to distinguish, noting marks on the back reveal authenticity. The piece from France is sold as Delft, while genuine Holland Delft differs only in provenance. Also mentions Wellesley students testing servants socials and a humorous hair anecdote about a senator's wife.
Frank Arnold of Hartford recalls an insurer telling of a Western fire-proof building that failed disastrously. A brick shell with steel frame housed highly combustible stock and tenants. When a fire occurred, ten hours later the interior became a roaring furnace, leaving only fragments of brick and bent girders. The tale illustrates that fire-proof design does not guarantee safety.
The codfish hangs from the Massachusetts state house dome, a relic tied to 1784 when John Rowe secured permission to place it as a memorial to the cod industry. Palfrey’s 1866 account notes Rowe’s Boston origins, his ties to Adams Otis and Hancock, and Rowe’s Wharf prominence. Rowe died February 17, 1767.
Ancient writers spoke of giant oysters in Indian seas while Sir James E. Tennent confirmed enormous shells at Trincomalee. Yet Port Lincoln in South Australia outdoes all with oysters over a foot across, plate sized, famed for flavor and delicacy enjoyed in Adelaide and beyond.
The article details adulterated cigars in Germany where two manufacturers were punished. One case used outside leaf tobacco with brown paper soaked in tobacco juice for the body. The other used special brown paper made with tobacco remnants and pulp, formed into cigars. A new bird rival is introduced in markets.
The Washington critics witnessed an open air Indian seance at High Noon in Lity Dale where mediums appeared under Indian control. A Buffalo medium Mrs. Van Buskirk directed the proceedings as Myra Paine endured and resisted the Indian spirit before finally yielding to the trance amid demonstrations of power and at times dramatic strife.
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