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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1907
Page
8
Opinion piece argues small towns lose opportunity to large cities due to business concentration. Encourages enlarging the home trade through local patronage, emphasizing community effort, local employment, and farm area values. Stresses individual citizen value and rural resilience.
A 19th or early 20th century exhortation urges towns to improve business fronts and residences through painting neat yards and clean sidewalks. It notes hitching posts and mud holes, and suggests designated side streets for teams. It calls for better public parks used for social gatherings.
A warning against mail order banks and misrepresented savings institutions. The piece cites the Lincoln bank at Oak Park Illinois where over a million dollars from farmers and others was deposited before authorities deemed it unsound and the promoter faced fraud charges. It urges supporting local home banks to benefit community wealth.
In a nationwide scam, stock agents visit farmers and urge them to sign an agreement to buy food stocks. No money upfront is required, but the note forces the farmer to pay many times the value of the cheap stock later, revealing a deceptive “food” scheme.
The piece warns against mail order jewelry selling phony diamonds and outlines a farmer trap with a wooden refrigerator promissory note. It argues locals should support reliable, well-advertised merchants and highlights how prices and local spending boost community wealth.
Discussion predicts the United States will import wheat only if a surplus is found abroad while exports continue. It suggests we may be near maximum output under current farming, but could double production with better methods as prices rise. Also notes Defiance Starch as a safe stiffener for fine fabrics and its economical use.
F W Headley argues that even the lowest creatures show mental activity. The amoeba appears to choose when feeding, and the zoothamnium colony learns to cease reacting to repeated jars, indicating memory of harm.
A brick laboratory in Middle town Connecticut built in 1825 was demolished on Saturday. It served as a gunhouse hospital eating house carpenter shop icehouse and electrical laboratory over the years. Defiance Starch ad promotes 16 oz for 10c with printed directions on each package.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a divine asks a tramp about baths. The tramp confesses he has never bathed, claiming he has never taken anything larger than a teaspoon, in a quaint dialogue demonstrating social class gap.
The saying notes that love can destroy through a bad woman and even lead to self destruction by a good woman, illustrating contrasts in passion and consequence.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry aid with a 2 oz package priced at five cents. The fragment quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson praising the power of good women.
An advertisement claims Schnapps tobacco is made entirely from flue cured Piedmont tobacco and criticizes imitators for inferior inside tobacco. It urges buyers to verify SCHNAPPS on tags and plugs, touts less sweetening, and asserts legal action to protect the brand.
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