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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1894
Page
2
A first person nautical tale recalls a whaler voyage during Thanksgiving with Bill Marlin and Lige Hawkins. The crew endures a smashed boat, raft, and near disaster, then survives, steering toward Boston and a promised reunion with New Bedford.
Bill Marlin and Lige Hawkins recount recovering from a wreck near Bedford. They board a guano ship, confront a bald shipmate, read the governor's proclamation, and plan to seize the cargo with other survivors. They discuss the Lightfoot and a bark bound for New York, tallying potential shares and grog.
H Harte, Grand Dictator of New York Fraternal Knights of Honor, is highly respected, with a long service record in grand lodge and leadership roles. The piece notes lodge counts, German lodges in Brooklyn, and a November schedule offering $2,000 for two years to ages 18 to 30 at a cost of $5.39 per $1,000. It mentions declines in membership and a Massachusetts winter campaign push.
Judge Brown of the Indiana circuit court in Indianapolis dismissed the Knights of Pythias suit in favor of the grand lodge. The ruling held that a withdrawing lodge’s charter is held in trust for one year, then becomes the grand lodge’s property if not reorganized. An appeal was filed. Also noted are changes to admission ballots and disciplinary actions involving St Vincent branch members in Plymouth Pennsylvania. The report mentions Arkansas jurisdiction raising funds for a Hot Springs gathering, a new supreme representative for Missouri, and 34 Rathbone Sisters temples in Illinois with 1,100 sisters and 40 knights.
A Michigan focused note on A O C W reforms and passport like certificates, citing August issuances and advocacy for higher valued certificates. The piece surveys membership totals in Michigan and other states, outlines new application blanks effective Oct 1, and reports quarterly summaries from various councils including New York, Long Island, Brooklyn and Chicago. It also covers the Independent Order of Foresters and Knights and Ladies of Honor, noting deaths, finances, and membership trends.
In New York a social rift centers on chaperon practices where discreet elderly allies host wealthy families. Mrs. Vanderbilt resists admitting a well known debutante, stirring protest against chaperon usage. London dental electric extraction tech tests intrigue readers with a vibrating induction device.
The Continentale Holz Zeiteng reports Berlin has established a factory producing ten tons daily of wood bread from a mixture of sawdust, bran, and rye. Aimed at preventing bread shortages, the process ferments bran and flour with sawdust, baking loaves priced by the hundredweight.
Afimires Gur, visiting Australia academic, praises the United States Supreme Court as a premier judicial institution. He notes its decisions command wide respect in English courts and, though less technically precise than English rulings, are broader in principle and serve as fountain heads of law.
A Tarnopol Galicia based group of 70 high school pupils formed a secret society aiming to separate Galicia from Austria and establish an independent Polish kingdom. They met before school to denounce the emperor and the government. Eighteen members have been prosecuted for high treason.
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