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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1895
Page
7
Tax Torres stats and local notes summarize court or civic figures with limited readable data. The fragment mentions persons and places but lacks full context, producing a terse card style teaser without clear events or outcomes.
A compact overview citing Illinois Freemason criticisms of disclosures by members, Royal Arch Masonry growth in Canada, the Poughkeepsie temple dedication on February 22, and plans for a new $70,000 three story temple in Anderson Indiana. It notes an Episcopal bishop officiating with Kane lodge and warns lodge officers against deviating from ancient landmarks while praising the grand chapter's New York reforms and the title reassignments reflecting new hierarchy.
The great Incohonee asks tribes to aid in extending the order by sending addresses to him or the great chief of records for eligible palefaces in hunting grounds lacking council fires. Feb 22 is celebrated. seek descriptive literature for distribution. The Red Men claim American history and character, but no Pocahontas grand council is yet organized this term, so no dispensations for its council fires.
The 1894 report highlights United Workmen gains with $1,185 spent and $8,000 in new members, plus 12,000 miles traveled to motivate 14 lodges. The Missouri degree of honor grows, Royal Arcanum council Lehigh in Bethlehem ranks sixth in PA, and Kansas City shows revival. A former New Jersey first grand regent plans continued visits.
The grand secretary reports a good rise in the financial condition of Pennsylvania lodges while membership remains near last year’s level. Several new lodges are projected and the new grand master begins with favorable prospects and a fair outlook.
The district grand lodge in Omaha raised the endowment assessment from fifteen to eighteen dollars yearly. An Independent Order Bnai Brith meeting will convene in Cincinnati next May to revise the constitution. The gathering, held only every seven years, marks a rare constitutional review.
Old fund started 34 years ago to build a 230 foot column on Prospect Hill to honor Roger Williams. Diary notes by Zachariah Allen describe a statue towering above tidewater and visible from Newport, Block Island, and Boston. Fund now sits in bank and may be transferred to state for a Rhode Island statue honoring Williams or General Greene.
An Odessa correspondent reports a young girl named Anna Popova about 17, elegant and poor, who hired a boatman at Graffski landing to take her to a Sebastopol monastery. She climbed to a rock, dropped a letter, and leapt to her death after monks urged her to descend, allegedly driven by home ill treatment. her father was a reserve captain.
Massachusetts school ventilation plans promise first class results even with limited inlets. For a fifty foot room the outlet should be at least five square feet, located on the inner side. rules adjust with room exposure and ensure slight excess outflow over inlet airflow. A long-lived donkey in Cromarty is noted, aged at least 106, traced to 1779 before dying from a kick.
A saleslady explains to a man why women seem to prefer men who appear bright and handsome. She says it’s not agreeableness but that men are ninnies who don’t know what things are worth unless they pretend to be clever or attractive.
A translation of a Turkish Islamic prayer is highlighted, urging destruction of infidels and their clans to seize wealth and lands as Moslem booty. The piece asserts such a call reveals Islam’s inhumanity, condemning Turkey for nationalist zeal affecting Bulgaria, Damascus, Lebanon and Armenia.
An aging clock mender recounts curious finds inside clocks that fail to keep time. He cites a cheap domestic clock and notes how a child hid a baby's shoe inside the bell. He explains inspections, signs of wear, and the repair billing.
A collage of curious anecdotes features Anzie the Australian with six foot circumference snow white hair that must be trimmed weekly. Also recounted is Relief the Russian writer surviving a failed hanging and quipping about rope work. The column ends with a dialect joke about learning to labor and wait on the post office job.
A long unused land parcel on Victoria Street in Westminster is now surrounded by a high board fence plastered with advertisements. The owner earns such lucrative income from ads that replacing the site with a building would not be financially sensible.
Daily service from the Bend Limited festibule Ex Al at 6:00 am 7:45 am daily except Saturday and Sunday. Stations listed include Kansas avenue corner and North Tapasa. Garvey avenue and cover onl an see s sh Street.
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