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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1922
Page
4
Washington DC bulletin from the National Geographic Society links Croesus to modern hotel origins and world trade. It notes thirty gold coins from Croesus mint signal Lydia's early gold basis, expanding travelers and merchants from Sardis to the ancient world, reshaping commerce and tourism.
Residents of Newville Pa were drawn to a dump by chirping chicks. Investigators found a poultry breeder had dumped many infertile eggs that hatched under sun and air, yielding about 75 chicks gathered.
Patrolman Daniel Burke traced a bird lime poaching racket after a stranded parrot’s curses betrayed hidden workers. He found smeared tree limbs in a Bronx park and tons of blackbirds snared, tied to a waterfront saloonkeeper's parrot that escaped its perch and warned of the danger.
A Forest Products Laboratory study explains that only 80 percent of forest timber becomes usable lumber with 10 to 25 percent lost in manufacturing before finishing. Methods include wood preservation to curb decay, potentially saving 1.5 billion board feet in railroad ties and easing forest depletion through scientific guidance.
In Marion Center Pennsylvania deer have little fear and approach campers. A buck and a doe joined a cow herd while Horace Menner milked near the farm. The deer stayed close until a dog appeared on the scene.
Washington reports Dr. Maurice Hall of the Department of Agriculture says extended experiments indicate carbon tetrachloride may be a positive cure for hookworm. He notes the chemical, usually a clothes cleaner, could be a cheap effective treatment for a parasite harming health and efficiency in millions, including thousands in the Southern states.
Five year old Mary Jane’s bantam hen hatched six chicks but refused to care for them. Her father threatened to sell the hen unless she helped, prompting Mary Jane to devise a plan. She said the hen was in the coop preparing to lay more eggs to hatch additional chicks.
Readers can obtain a free 76 page Reliable Recipes from the Calumet Baking Powder Co Home Economics Department at 4100 28 Fillmore Street Chicago Tl. The department will answer cooking questions with no charge. Request today for a color illustrated recipe book and kitchen guidance.
An advertisement features Mrs. Benham Money touting Ball Blue as the trusted detergent for snow white laundry. It claims the product delivers true blue washing results and urges continued use, noting it is carried by all good grocers.
A stub born student refuses to spell. the teacher warns of tragedy from orthography neglect. As an obdurate man grows, he poisons himself by eating oysters in Orgust. The toothless teacher, aging, quips I told him so. Source Life.
Priests in Simla, summer capital of India, replaced lazy hand turned prayer wheels with motorized systems. British engineers proposed diverting streams for a waterpower project, provoking priestly opposition. The franchise then included provision for electric motors to perpetually turn the wheels.
The sergeant major expounds on the definition during a drill as recruits falter in a mock exam. An NCO demands a correct answer and a sharp cadet quips that a fortification is “Two identifications.” London Answers notes the exchange with dry, humorous emphasis.
At a Denver dinner party, Marshal Foch remarks on politeness. He says politeness in France is wise and compares it to a pneumatic tire, noting it has wind but eases life’s jolts along the highway.
An English lecturer recalls Thomas Hardy once dialing thirty to forty prominent London figures and instructing them to call 625 Chiswick. The joke ends when the callers discover 625 Chiswick is Wormwood Scrubs prison.
A worker at iboard voices dissatisfaction with apparel quality. The critique notes persistent issues with fabrics and fit, affecting job satisfaction and productivity.
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