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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
2
Rates include 10c per column inch for display and 50c per line for first insertion with six words per line. Mail order ads require cash with copy. no personal checks. Card of thanks costs 25c. announcements for fundraising still billed at regular rates. Special rates on contract.
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Weather snippets from Kansas City Star hint at droughts in Ridpen Estate pasture while neighbors complain of dry conditions and squeaking frogs. A Barnes Bros Circus camel died near Winfield, blamed on aridity unfamiliar to the beast. The Chanute Tribune cites a 1913 dictionary joke about rain clouds.
The Nickerson Argosy reports a quirky notice to the weather office noting a practice text. It also mentions Mayor of Great Bend urging calm and a field of local businessmen discussing M. C. Campbell the Wichita cattle king. A farmer complains of dry creeks and wells in Butler County seeking water for his cattle.
A Kansas dispatch reports Campbell with about 2000 cattle facing pasture and water shortages in the southwest. Other items include satirical verses on temperance and a warning about worms in children, with ads for Kickapoo Worm Killer. The Topeka letters note school openings around September 1 and state officials praising prohibition enforcement under Governor Hodges.
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