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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
1
Five hundred window boxes are being made in New York for the Flower Guild to distribute among crowded tenements. Boxes come with screws wires and plants. visitors explain care and celebrate how flowers lift weary lives despite fears and neglect. Prizes honor best tended boxes and stories of hope.
German experts affirm the world coal reserve will meet demand for centuries with deposits: Germany 280 billion tons expected to last to 3000, Britain and Ireland 1938 billion lasting about 400 years, Belgium 23, France 19, Austria 17, Russia 40, North America 681, with Asia and Siberia holding vast undeveloped stores. The article notes future demand estimates can fail against reality and cites forestry conservation as a needed, slow process to avert timber shortages as steel and cement use grows.
The Chicago Chronicle notes a widespread sermon trend among baccalaureate preachers urging graduates to reject wealth as the sole measure of success. It cites President Butler of Columbia University suggesting wealth remains powerful for good and ill, but true welfare lies in how wealth is acquired and used.
A three nation Central American peace accord between Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras was signed Friday on the USS Marblehead on the high seas off the Guatemalan coast. Peace commissioners from Guatemala and diplomats from El Salvador and Honduras will land at Acajutla and other points as accreditation ends. The Mexican minister assisted, and the leaders thanked the U.S. and Mexico for their mediation after a conflict that began in May with Salvadoran expeditions.
The Daily Trade Bulletin estimates the 1907 wheat crop at 435 million bushels of winger wheat and 285 million of spring wheat totaling 724 million. Carryover 55 million and farmers still holding 46 million raise total supply to 821 million. Consumption expected at 450 million leaving export potential. world crop 80 million below last year.
A St Petersburg dispatch reports that Emperor Nicholas negates plans for a European tour. Political necessities require his presence in Russia and he informed Emperor William accordingly.
The canal commission in Washington considers importing coolies from the Far East to build the Panama canal. Attorney General Moody will decide if the Chinese exclusion and contract labor laws bar the action, though officials doubt those laws apply to the canal zone. American workers are unwilling, and alternatives have underperformed, prompting a plan to import two shiploads of Chinese laborers.
A six story brick millinery building at Tenth and Broadway in Kansas City Missouri was struck by lightning just after 2 PM Thursday. The Frankel Frank Wholesale Millinery company occupied the site. Fire damaged the fifth and sixth floors with likely total losses to stock and premises. seventy five workers on the fifth floor escaped via fire escapes without injury.
Des Moines Iowa Mr Martin Flynn president of Peoples Savings bank shot himself in the brain at a downtown drug store early Wednesday dying almost instantly Ill health is the supposed cause for the act He was 60 years old prominent cattle breeder and civil engineer for the Santa Fe He helped build a tunnel from New Mexico to Colorado
United States circuit court rules in favor of George W. Pepper as receiver of Bay State Gas Company of Delaware. Henry H. Rogers of New York must turn over one half of the sale profit, $1,500,000, to the gas company in the case seeking $3,000,000.
A decree to appear in the Official Journal nominates Maj. Alfred Dreyfus to the Legion of Honor in Paris.
Butler county Kan now has 12 banks with Towanda State Bank opening its doors for business Thursday and plans to add two more at Cassady and Rose Hill soon.
The RussianDuma dissolves amid imperial ukazes as parliament is disbanded and a new convocation set for March 5 1907. Security is tightened in St Petersburg with martial law like measures and arrests without trial. Parliament members gather at Viborg to prepare a manifesto and reassemble for a regular session.
St Louis financier Frederick Weiblinger, a prominent German American citizen, died at his home on Sunday from heart failure. He was seventy five years old and well known in local business circles.
New York financier Russell Sage died at his country home Cedarcroft in Lawrence New York from heart failure caused by age related diseases. He would have turned 90 on August 4 after a period of good health since arriving at his summer residence six months ago. He collapsed at noon Sunday and remained unconscious until death at 4 30 p m.
United States Geological Survey bulletin shows zinc and zinc oxide production in 1905 totaling 203 849 short tons, up 17 147 from 1904. Since 1897, zinc production has more than doubled, reflecting continued growth in the industry.
Mrs. W. F. Griess of Clay Center Nebraska reports severe scalp itching dandruff and hair loss. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment weekly shampooing and twice weekly ointment application over two months her hair grew long to French twist length and now extends six inches below the waist with a healthy scalp and no dandruff.
An advertisement touts Lewis' Single Binder Cigar from Lewis' Factory in Peoria Illinois. It quips that many men think a grand equestrian trick when bad habits take the bit and run away.
A large black bear stirred excitement last week near Aleck Park and Harper Wolford as two dogs chased it to the fence and across the meadow. Unable to load a gun, local men pursued the beast through the garden and creek area, until it vanished into the surrounding woods with a dozen pursuers in hot pursuit.
Consul William Bardel reports from Bamberg that Engineer Balderauer of Salzberg has devised a balloon railroad. A stationary balloon on a slide along a steel rail climbs steep mountains, lifting a ten passenger car. Hydrogen powers ascent while water ballast enables descent. The inventor claims the patent will supplant incline cable roads.
A Elizabethtown minister credits Grape-Nuts with restoring health after a La Grippe episode. He describes severe weight loss and nervous prostration, noting recovery in appetite sleep and strength after using the food and shows gratitude to the Postum Co. for promoting it. He touts the product as a rebuilding agent and cites the road to Wellville book.
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