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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1910
Page
2
Captain Noathaniel Plum lands on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan. Obadiah Price, Mormon councilor and hidden watcher, confronts him and declares the spy is expected. Plum says he has the wrong man as tension rises in the secrecy of the Mormon stronghold.
An old man tests Captain Plum with a forged introduction and a bag of gold, hinting at a Mormon plot on Beaver Island. Plum asserts he has arms aboard and denounces the setup, only to learn the old man plotted to test his honesty. The exchange ends with playful revelation and mutual astonishment.
Captain Plum and an enigmatic old man bargain over a sealed package worth a thousand dollars. An oath sworn on Bible and Book of Mormon leads to a mysterious delivery to Franklin Pierce, then a girl appears in fear as the scene ends with a cliffhanger.
In a tense room Captain Plum and Obadiah Price await a distant tolling bell. Price raises his arms in prayer as a trance-like glow enshrouds him, while Wardly surveys the darkness with a pistol ready and a sense of peril hanging over them. The tolling bell marks a rising fate.
A cultured traveler passionate about proper speech opens a school to correct provincialisms and mispronunciations. She targets educated people and afirming the need for a pure English tongue, noting regional vocal quirks while expanding her program to towns nationwide.
A rustic fable opens with an old rabbit imparting guidance to his son about staying on the dog’s good side. The youngster asks which side that is and the rabbit replies with a brisk, humorous reply about the dog’s outside.
A Virginia woman reports ten years of hand eczema cured after using Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent. She notes rapid improvement from the first bottle and full recovery after the third, and cites her daughter’s summer eczema also cured in two weeks.
An applicant at a railway ticket office requests a high comfort ride while seeking a refrigerator car. A cautious assessor pressures the farmer to inflate his land size, but the farmer retorts that the farm isn’t a rubber plantation.
A man balks at paying a taxi fare in Louisville, insisting to be taken to the police station and then to the poorhouse. The exchange highlights a tense moment over unpaid transit costs.
A humorous exchange highlights a guest’s disregard for table manners as he eats the lettuce leaf the salad rests on. The remark sparks chatter about dining etiquette and social expectations.
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