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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1896
Page
8
City council last night ordered bids advertised for the new machinery for the electric lighting plant. The project aims for a modern system by March 1, with funds redirected from current suburban lamp replacements. The engineer’s cost estimates cover poles, lamps, insulators, and wiring, totaling about 4,309.09 dollars for the equipment.
City Attorney Bird backs an ordinance requiring all pipe systems in streets to file plats with the city engineer within 60 days. Penalties range from 25 to 100 dollars for noncompliance. The measure passed without opposition and affects gas and water companies.
Item from the North Side reports revival meetings at multiple churches with daily gatherings. Mentions Mrs H Camp visiting Kansas City, Judge G W Carey recovering, local travel and visits, fruit prospects for next summer, and various social events including a jealous tale of an imposter. Local merchants advertise groceries, meats, and buggy supplies.
City Attorney W A S Bird and J W Gleed caused a pie dispute aboard a Kansas City Topeka local. Gleed pledged to share pie costs, Bird defended the bake, then Bird produced the pie and Gleed condemned it as the worst he ever tasted. He declared their friendship over over crust and salt flaws.
A Topeka court fines Pete Brewer nine dollars after he admits a misdemeanor for leaving a team and wagon unhitched near a house. The farmer appeals to the judge who notes Pete was "too honest" and says the sentence fits the case.
Capt Joe Waters has assumed the case after Charles Humbie’s death, representing interests in the $100,000 damage suit against Dr. Leslie Keeley over his famed cure formula. Keeley refused to reveal the formula and was cited for contempt. The matter involves health damages from Keeley treatment and related patent notices as reported January 14, 1896.
A guide to furnishing a compact parlor avoids crowding with simple light pieces. It cites a one window room described in The Art Amateur using Louis Seize and Empire influences, ready made items at moderate prices, and a palette of yellow blue and cream with brass highlights.
A detailed step by step method for stewing rump steak to make a tough cut palatable. It covers trimming fat, browning, simmering with onions carrots turnip celery and herbs, making a rich gravy with stock, and finishing with flour, catchup and arranged vegetables. Proper serving involves placing fat cubes on top and straining the gravy.
A fragmented recipe describes ingredients for gingerbread including molasses, butter, sour milk, eggs, ginger, cinnamon, soda, and flour. It instructs baking in a long fat tin. The passage preserves a historic, casual cookbook tone with incomplete spellings and measurements.
A homekeeper advises rare carpet salt sprinkling and dry broom use for cleanliness, noting water cleaning leaves dirty runoff. She emphasizes sweeping skill, credits no carpet bug, and shares methods for pests. Corrosive sublimate kills bedbugs but is a deadly poison requiring childproofing, with kerosene for cockroaches.
The article notes home design flaws such as high closet hooks and wasted shelves. It lists a mince meat recipe and offers fashion commentary on Marie Antoinette influenced gowns, winter millinery, and children’s caps with Scottish influences.
Observations from an annual report condemn home music practice as a major cause of nervousness in girls and advise delaying piano study until age twelve. Only healthy, musically gifted girls should study, as most learn to play with limited expression or become exhausted by teachers. Parents and schools should resist excessive demands to keep girls fresh and healthy. Then a brief Household note describes making decorative pin balls with worsted or silk, using chain stitching and ribbon bows for hanging.
A brief cranberry stew method explains washing and draining a quart of berries, adding a pint of cold water, covering and boiling ten minutes, then stirring in a pint of granulated sugar and simmering ten minutes more. Use porcelain cookware and a wooden spoon to preserve berry color.
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