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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1933
Page
5
Numerous local couples and families hosted and visited one another across weekend gatherings. Guests at home dinners and afternoon calls included Elmbergs, Carlsons, Segerhammers, Johnsons, Tornquists, Nelsons, Engwalls, Edbergs, Carneys, Gorrisons, Weir, Olson, and many others, reflecting tight neighborly ties. A birthday event and a teaching assignment in Cactus, Kansas also appear among the social notes.
Josephine Davis of Gettysburg, 18, used a rusty iron stove to bake bread for Union and Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg. She also improvised bandages from torn cloth and tended the wounded through three days of fighting, earning lasting local memory.
A stranger visited Wineinger Motor Co. in Smith Center to view Ford V-8s. After a showroom demonstration they drove off in a new car, but the man revealed a blue pistol and forced the salesman to surrender before fleeing. the suspect was not re seen.
P. J. Paulsen of Concordia was convicted of embezzling 4500 dollars while an agent for the Railroad Building Loan and Savings Association. He received a one to five year sentence in Lansing. His son, Clarence Paulsen, county attorney, learned of the irregularities and urged prosecution with Everett E. Steerman assisting.
John Bird Jr argues that abandoning the gold standard boosts foreign markets for wheat hogs and cotton as inflation lifts farm commodities. He notes easier debt repayment cheaper fixed charges and rising prices foster business. Also mentions social visit with local residents including Hope Mitchell and others.
Our sincere thanks to relatives friends and I O O F and neighbors for their kind assistance and sympathy during the illness and death of our husband and father Mrs Barto Vincent Ben Vincent and family Art Vincent and family Ed Vincent and family
Governor Landon named Dr Ernest Pihlblad president of Bethany College to the state board of education, a move seen as aiding smaller state colleges. In Scandia, Dr Pihlblad is well known. Grace McElroy visited Violet Dabanus, while Mr and Mrs Wilbur Miller visited relatives in Wichita over the weekend.
The text fragment mentions Mr Wineinger and a note about demonstrations being unavailable for some time, but no concrete event, date, or context is provided.
Contracts will be let Friday for the steel and paint needed to manufacture the 1934 auto license tags. About eight carloads or 250 tons of steel will be required and 5,000 gallons of enamel and ink. The 1934 color scheme will be white background with black letters, the same as the first state tags issued in 1913.
Mrs H Kannier spent the weekend in Topeka visiting her husband Mr Kannier.
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