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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1916
Page
2
The Scandia Journal listing notes a post office storage in Scandia Kansas as second class matter. Publisher WM H Hill advertises subscription at 1.25 dollars per year in advance.
Advertising rates are listed per column inch for display and per line for locals with initial and extra week charges. Mail order ads require cash with copy. Card of Thanks and social notices may incur charges. The Journal price is $1.25 a year with 10 months credit when paying $1.00.
Railroads and workers including engineers conductors firemen and brakemen argue over a real eight hour day as wage talks surge. A nationwide strike vote by August will mark a key moment in the dispute.
Railroad managers insist the eight hour day goal by trainmen would raise wages without guaranteed eight hours work, while workers seek a reduced hours basis for time and one half overtime. Managers warn longer hours would force more trains and higher costs, while overtime penalties complicate wage schedules already in place.
The piece notes Clark Bowling visiting relatives in Rydal on the way to Cambridge IL for gatherings with Mans J N Wood ries of Rydal expected to accompany him. It also reports the County Commissioners in regular session handling monthly business and two final citizenship applications filed with hearings set for November 13, 1916, including Thos Zoknke of Freedom and Carl Petrus Johnson of Scandia among nine others.
Notice from adjacent landowners and tenants along the Republican river prohibits trespassing under penalty of law. Signatories include Mrs. C. J. Webber M Weisloger Earnest Burns Albert M. Larson G A Nystrom Mrs. Annie Boman Clarence Tebow Charles Hohman J J Smith Mrs C Nordmark Tom Doak.
An advertisement offers a hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case, touting Hall's Catarrh Cure as reliable after thirty five years of use and widespread familiarity among sufferers.
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