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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1895
Page
6
A jumble of old kitchen guidance on proper spoon sizes and measures. It details how to fill spoons, sifted ingredients, and approximate cup to spoon conversions, followed by a table of capacities and a few unrelated notices about local industry and a laundry.
After months away Topeka’s Philharmonic Society held its first meeting of the season at president Mrs W E Swift’s home. The notes list many members and guests and outline the afternoon program including Steinler and Chopin pieces. The next gathering is scheduled for Monday at Mrs O Brien’s home.
A vintage guide urges mothers to give children a separate library, start early, and teach respect for books. It suggests shelving a box library, decorating it, and guiding kids to place books there, fostering early reading habits and discrimination in selection.
A period piece advises brightening a sunless room using buttery yellow wallpaper and a yellow tiled fireplace. It promotes English Minton tiles, cream white walls, striped yellow window sash, and cheerful furniture with bright cushions to reflect sunlight. Also included are notes on fashionably modest cycling, professional house cleaners, and a brief poem about sunshine after rain.
The three day session of the grand lodge of F L T closed at Representative Hall with officer installations. G McClelland and F Crane received initiatory degrees. L Brown of Kingman contested grand warden. C W Sample of Kingman recounted frontier life and offered forgiveness. Brown and Sample reconciled amid cheers.
Mrs Kate Ellis Preed spoke at a crowded Christian church session on Woman and Christianity with tales from Indian and Japanese missions. She contrasted suttee and child marriage with Christian reform, noted Japanese railroad satire, and entertained with reminiscences as the miched topic drew a large audience.
Secretary Bristow, private secretary to Governor Morrill, plans to move to Ottawa to run a Republican paper and edit the Ottawa Herald. He denied political ambitions, saying he would focus on farming readers and paper work from Topeka while his brother handles local duties until the move.
An open business like promotion invites all with chronic illness to receive six free treatments and potential cures for one month. Doctors promise pay only when cures are achieved and list numerous diseases treated. Offices at 831 Quibey St open from morning till night for examinations.
The World Medical Institute on Quincy Street in Topeka reports Ly ours Sam treated several out of town patients successfully, with care extending to 6 30 pm.
The Green County Bank of this city did not open today. It has been placed in receivership by the secretary of state on the state bank examiner’s advice. Deposits total about 60,000 dollars with assets near 120,000 dollars. All debts will be paid.
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