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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
3
The 1819 Kansas winter wheat crop is placed at 144,807,000 bushels by Edward Paxton of the U S Bureau of Crop Estimates, down 48,911,000 from the July forecast. Despite smaller output the crop remains the second largest on record, with per acre yield at 13 bushels.
Governor Allen creates a special food stuffs committee with Clyde Reed James A Kimball and John Crawford to coordinate plans to cut living costs. They will survey farm prices seek direct producer to consumer channels and consider government sale of surplus food and city purchases.
Sir Luke White long admired for public service ends his days in Driffield workhouse infirmary after bankruptcy. Once a solicitor and politician with a knighthood, he owed $135000, including $95000 to trusting constituents who gave their savings to him. Born 1845 near York, he rose from an apprentice to a coroner and MP, later resigning after World War I pressures revealed his finances.
Senorita Olga Eschaurre of Chile, popular in Washington society circles during winter and spring, is to marry Senor Curtos Uribe, brother of Senora de Vreja, wife of the Colombian minister.
The subject confided funds for war loan to a man who used them up. Friends aided him briefly in a Scar borough sanitarium. Once that fund exhausted he was moved to the work house infirmary near the court where he once practiced.
The Bridlington notable once famed as a gentle lawyer faces renewed public attention after a suit against Herbert Brown deputy coroner and Sir Luke for allegedly diverting 1000 dollars entrusted by William Hatfield in 1907. Sir Luke avoids trial due to collapse.
A New York report estimates seven thousand cats became homeless after saloons closed for Prohibition. Beyond the famed hotel bars, each barroom housed one or more cats, and with 7,000 plus saloons closed, these felines lost their homes citywide.
Twenty four year old married man Lewis Simmers Walker has been approved for adoption by Dauphin county court. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham P. Simmers were granted foster parents status and will legally adopt Walker as their son to secure a share of their estate.
The United States employment service reports 264 offices already funded with more than 200 to be kept open by outside support until Congress approves Nolan Kenyon bills. Welfare groups chambers of commerce and local agencies will continue backing 2 000 emergency bureaus for returning soldiers and sailors. John B Densmore notes that once state returns come in the total open offices will exceed 300 through voluntary contributions.
In New York a six word will scribbled on a margin disposes of a $200000 estate. Written by Alexian der Wolligan Withers, general agent of the American Frail ex chinge, the note leaves “ALL T have belongs to Zulina” to Zulia Powell, the housekeeper. Mir Waters died of heart failure just after taking office on July 8.
In Los Angeles California Superior Court Judge Taft mandates that women answering ages in court must give exact years, replacing the common reply of being over twenty one. The ruling changes court practice for age declarations in proceedings.
Scientists estimate the ocean’s age at about 10 000 000 years. The calculation uses water origin from Earth's cooling mass and river salts accumulating minerals. Salinity and mineral composition detail the salt fraction and material make up the sea.
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