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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
3
A reflection on forced sales by wandering book agents. Webster recalls selling a worthless book in a barren rural area during college, describing the moral discomfort of pushing sales and the feeling of exploiting unwilling customers.
Isaac Amram and Juan Samano were convicted and sentenced on alien smuggling charges. Immigration officials say the Reynosa based gang operated across the Rio Grande with $100 per head, bringing Greeks and Italians into the United States. Samano, once a Reynosa magistrate, aided Amram as the group’s organizer and was captured at a customs office.
Mexico City reports eighty workers have died in falls and other accidents during the construction of the National palace fourth floor extension. The toll reflects the danger of upper construction on the federal government building.
The article explains steel is iron with carbon and other ingredients added. Its properties depend on how it is treated as it cools and crystalizes. Steel offers improvements over iron enabling many new applications.
The priceless Vigilante bell from Fort Gunnybags, weighing 1100 pounds and bronze, is now hung in the marine department of the chamber of commerce as a gift from the First Baptist church of Petaluma. The bell, bought in 1856, was used to summon townsfolk for council and war and later to mark Civil War loyalties, before being kept in Petaluma church and finally returned in recent days.
A large oil company in Ponca City Oklahoma uses goats to keep the grass at a 160 acre tank farm trimmed. The facility holds about 140 million gallons of crude oil and gasoline with over 100 tanks. Goats win the contract due to safety and cost efficiency.
London cardiologist Dr. J Strickland Goodall warns that emotional strain and modern life habits are driving a near 400 percent rise in heart disease deaths in Britain and elsewhere. He cites younger deaths, links to hard work and stress, and notes sudden deaths during intense events like sports broadcasts.
A tribute recalls a highly successful salesman who never pressured customers. He earned trust by punctual appointments, clear presentation of wares, and courteous, subtle persuasion. His approach stood in sharp contrast to forced sales practices of others. He is missed for his integrity.
London scholar Sir George Grierson, recent recipient of the Order of Merit, is renowned for his linguistic mastery of 179 languages and 554 dialects. He has completed a monumental linguistic survey of India after 25 years of study and field work.
Fulton contracts for a new manual training building at the Missouri School for the Deaf with a bid of 39 910 plus plumbing heating and electric work totaling 17 042 funded by a 65 000 appropriation released by Gov. Baker. County and city notes cover road bonds air field planning in Columbia primary returns in Jefferson City and church conventions in Callaway. Several accidents and incidents are reported including a fatality in Neelyville and a bus brake failure near Odessa with multiple injuries.
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