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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1895
Page
7
A satirical column scolds readers for demanding more news while town visitors stay mum. It cites a crude calculation by a man named Geoarious about kisses in a five year courtship, then ends with an advert for Juneral Water from J. W. Putirs at 612 West Eighth Avenue.
A man recalls a five year old romance sparked by a hand organ at a resort near Newport. He loses contact after a quarrel, later finds a ring identical to one given to Margaret, and reunites. She returns the ring. they marry, crediting the hand organ for their reconciliation.
A Pennsylvania party in Cameron County enjoyed bountiful trout near Sinnema honing, guided by Charley Buldue. After a big day on the water they paid for meals and lodging, and a rattlesnake tied to a string was offered for a dollar fifty to Walter Brown who declined the risky hero’s tale.
North Woburn Delaware residents raise funds to erect a monument in Wilmington honoring the Baldwin apple. Inscription notes Samuel Thompson in 1793 discovering the first Pecker apple while surveying the Middlesex canal line, grafting trees from the Pecker tree with Abijah Thompson, and Col Leamtt Baldwin’s work making the grafts famous.
Mrs Belle Farrell, a Maryland widow, was acquitted after a week or more of trial on a charge of murdering her husband. The verdict surprised readers as the jury freed her despite damaging evidence. She plans to marry again once in mourning and is said to have chosen her second husband before the first died.
A fragment describes Japan’s Sapporo as the only empire site producing butter and cheese, established on American models by a director general from the United States. The town, laid out in squares like an American city, contains an American brewery, reflecting foreign influence.
An observing man notes wormwood pleweel dock and other weeds flourish while pests like squash bugs and aphis remain untroubled. He argues for a single escape from ongoing agricultural warfare by learning to eat weeds.
A French geographical society pro poses dividing the clock into ten hours of ten minutes and a hundred seconds each to align time with the decimal system. The ten twelve hours remain on the clock face from earlier times, likely before letters were invented.
Divorce has been legal in France for eight years. The first year the number granted was 1 700, the second 4 000. In 1894 it was 5 000. The total for eight years is 40 000. The working classes supply the largest proportion, 47 percent, the peasants the smallest, 7 percent.
A man named Prescott was leading a colt when the horse kicked him near the hip. He carried a loaded revolver and it discharged, a bullet lodging in Prescott’s leg. The incident occurred in Hast Mon mouth, Me.
A small Augusta graveyard houses a curious garden with cucumbers tomatoes and red peppers among the slabs. The note cites ex US Senator John J Ingalls and a claim about trouble told to his cows by the Atchison Grobs.
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