This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 24 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1910
Page
6
A contractor building a railroad in a hot climate reduced meat rations and greatly increased Quaker Oats for laborers. He boiled the oats and mixed the oatmeal water with drinking water. Stomach disorders faded and workers regained strength and spirits. Oats sold in 53 packed hermetically sealed tins for hot climates.
A humorous exchange features a letter writer asking why people say Dear sir and a responder jokes that sir may be short for sirloin. The light pun plays on formal address versus meat nomenclature.
Licking Lycclids, Cysts and Styes are mentioned with Marine Eye Salve in trial size tubes priced at 25c. The ad urges consulting a doctor or writing Marine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago for more information while noting a Beecher quote about keeping a cemetery for friends faults.
An old newspaper ad urges purchase of Red Cross Ball Blue powder with a 2 oz size priced at five cents. The copy adds a socialtaunt line about vanity and boasting.
A. N. Benn testifies in St Louis meat hearings naming as directors of the 15 million dollar National Packing company Armours Swift and Edward Morris along with Edward Tilden and others. Benn lists stockholders showing the J. S. Swift estate, J. Ogden Armour and Morris holding major shares.
The Agricultural College in Kansas expands domestic science with window and house gardening for girls. Horticultural work will fill a 100 by 25 foot green house next year with 80 students each managing five feet of bench. The program includes floriculture theory and practical training in water light fertilizer and commercial floriculture focusing on violets carnations and roses.
Dr B K of Wichita announces what is believed to be the first authentic hook worm case in the state. The patient, a 32 year old woman, had traveled in the south last late summer and fall and has suffered a languid condition since. Dr Ford treated her with hook worm remedies learned in southern hospitals and clinics.
City commissioners prepare for the cornerstone ceremony of the new auditorium during the state Municipal league meeting in Wichita on May 18 and 19. Contractors promise the building will be ready for the event. Mayor Davidson arranges for speakers and a grand citizens parade.
Farmers in Seneca and Axtell areas are breaking wheat ground and planting corn. Across northern Kansas many cancel twine orders due to a poor wheat outlook. The North Solomon branch of the Central Branch expects about 60 percent of a full crop.
At a joint meeting in Arkansas City the mayors of Winfield and Arkansas City, plus six businessmen from each town, voted unanimously to petition the Cowley County Board of Commissioners to issue bonds totaling $100,000 for concrete bridge construction.
Abilene's Merchants Association rejects multiple promotional schemes including hotel registers pro grams and room cards. It will print the fair catalog without advertising at its own expense and redirect funds to the high school.
Reports from Salina rural districts indicate hundreds of acres of wheat will be plowed under to plant corn oats and alfalfa. The move is already under way in many areas with weather conditions preventing further plowing.
The grand lodge of Knights of Pythias of Kansas will hold its annual meeting next month in Ottawa. The city plans a royal reception and thorough welcome to the visiting knights, underscoring Ottawa’s appreciation for being chosen as convention city.
A Salina horse dealer plans an early June trip to France to purchase Percheron horses for Kansas. He aims to spend 50000 dollars, paying about 1000 dollars per horse.
Reports from Kansas City note rapid decline of gas in Kansas cement plants. One third to one half of Kansas cement output now uses fuel oil with oil burners replacing gas. Iola plants in the gas field are moving to oil, with Ghanate operations converting kilns to oil firing.
Washington report states Oberlin M. Carter, dismissed from the army and imprisoned for fraud linked to Savannah improvements, lost $400,000 as a further outcome of that case. The U S supreme court issued the decree based on a claim for equitable accounting of funds obtained fraudulently.
Dispatches report renewed earthquakes in Costa Rica causing widespread damage. Thousands are homeless as towns are ruined and refugees flood San Jose. Panicked inhabitants face famine threats across the country.
Senator Leroy Percy welcomed a thorough investigation into bribery charges tied to his election. He reiterated denials that he or his friends used money in the campaign and noted the Mississippi state senate’s decision to probe the matter.
Charles Lamson of Pasadena files suit in U S district court to stop the Wright brothers from manufacturing and selling aeroplanes alleging the Wright box kite in their machine infringes his patented box kite.
A seventy year old man describes years of painful cracked hands and sleepless nights. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for a week his hands fully healed and have remained so. He notes a neighbor’s child also improved. Signed John W Hasty, So. Effingham, New Hampshire, March 6 and April 11, 1909.
Dr. David Roberts notes lump jaw is caused by a fungus entering the animal via feed and can affect throat glands or head bones. Do not keep afflicted animals in the herd. treat or cull. Early opening and cleansing with antiseptic, plus a tonic, often saves the animal and protects the herd.
Senator Depew recounts a March Easter tale at a Washington dinner. An old-fashioned fellow allegedly drank too much eggnog and, while staggering home in the late afternoon, a little girl watched him from a window exclaiming the wind is blowing him about.
A Brooklyn family reports their eleven month old son grew thin and pale until feeding him Grape-Nuts. After two servings he refused other nourishment and soon thrived, with the parents praising the cereal's healthful effects for both children and adults. The letter adds that Grape-Nuts supports brain and body development and references the book The Road to Wellville.
The passage extols a healthful lifestyle aided by Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle cleansing laxative. It claims physicians approve the combination and that millions of families have trusted the California Fig Syrup Co. product for years. It urges purchases only from the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. manufacture.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.