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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
5
The article argues that national wealth is reflected by luxury purchases, citing US imports of South African diamonds totaling 35 million dollars last year. It notes a ten year boom, with 1897 imports around 1.9 million dollars and rising demand signaling prosperity. diamonds symbolize affluence and rising living standards.
The article argues youth in school are labeled sleepy due to neglecting sleep. Experts say infants need about 22 hours daily, dropping to 12 as a teen and nine hours most of life. It condemns late bedtimes for 12 to 14 year olds and urges parents to enforce nine hours of sleep for better study outcomes.
The article contests the claim that women lack ingenuity and cites examples of inventions credited to men that originated with women. It highlights figures like Mrs. Whitney, Miss M. E. Knight, Frances A. Dunham, and a winded bee hive device, noting how their ideas advanced tools, paper bags, signaling flames, and bee management, underscoring female ingenuity across domains.
After the Valparaiso quake four-fifths of the Las Delicias district homes are ruined while churches hospitals and theaters are destroyed. More than 2000 killed and damage pinned between 25 and 50 million dollars. Water restored and provisions arriving as evacuation begins. Telecommunication with Santiago resumes and steamers move residents to northern and southern points.
Berlin reports poor sanitary conditions in Prussian bakeries and slaughterhouses. Inspectors found unclean practices, dark cellars, lack of washing facilities, and even boys kneading dough with feet in one town. Some bakeries sat beside unsanitary house appurtenances and floors were scrubbed only yearly.
President Roosevelt backs Brander Matthews led reform to simplify orthography. He ordered Public Printer Sillings to print White House documents in the new style and will adopt a 300 word list to replace standard spellings. Secretary Loebe will implement the reform across presidential correspondence.
M. J. Sage & Co. brokers with offices in Jersey City and New York announced their closing after business hours. The firm operated at least 300 branches from Maine to New Orleans and some sources say the failure could total as much as two million dollars.
Oklahoma City reports that Cash M. Cade of Shawnee, a Republican National Committeeman, forwarded his resignation as Guthrie land office register to President Roosevelt. The appointment stalled in the Senate for months during an investigation in which Cade was exonerated. He was confirmed but never took the office, reportedly opposing the push to place territorial appointees.
Springfield Missouri jury in the Doss Galbraith case was discharged after failing to reach a verdict. Jurors reported 10 to acquit and 2 for conviction after about 25 hours and 20 ballots. Attorney Val Mason signaled readiness for trial again, though state plans were unclear.
Tokyo reports that the Japanese consul in Vancouver cannot obtain a full report on the killing of Japanese poachers by Americans in the Aleutian islands. The Japanese government will carry out its own inquiry and may dispatch a consul to the Pribilof islands.
Report from Moscow alleges Belenzoff, leader of the $400,000 credit mutual bank raid on March 20, escaped at a Moscow official's urging to avoid revelations about police complicity. The city arrests widen while the prison capacity fails to hold the detainees.
An order from the War Department on Tuesday relieves Col Charles B Hall of the 18th Infantry from command of his regiment and the Fort Leavenworth post. He is reassigned as commandant of the United States infantry and cavalry school signal school and staff college at Fort Leavenworth to fill Brig Gen J Franklin Bell’s staff chief vacancy.
In Eagle Grove and convening Thursday after a four‑meeting deadlock, the Republicans of the Thirty Seventh District nominated Charles F. Peterson of Clarion for state senator on the first ballot. A total of 3,699 ballots were cast across the conventions.
Delegates from Chicago to Denver will travel under Rock Island system arrangements for the 60th annual convention of the International League of Press Clubs. Leading newspaper men from across the United States and Canada will attend next week.
Washington reports the Government Printing Office was acquitted on final prints of bills to Congress at the session’s end after Senate Committee on Printing scrutiny. The committee found the handling time not unreasonable but rather expeditions in nature.
Governor Fernandez Blanco proclaims Valparaiso under siege and grants supreme authority to Navy Captain Gomez Carreño. The police prefect is tasked with collecting and distributing food.
Mrs. F. A. Bailey, who traveled to Lawrence Kansas with the first emigrant party in 1854, died Thursday morning.
At the final session of the National Association of Postmasters convention the second and third days Williams Noble from Oklahoma was elected president and Hannibal A Hopkins of St. Clair Michigan was chosen secretary-treasurer. Washington was selected as the site for next year’s convention.
General Fernando Figueroa resigns as minister of war of El Salvador to pursue the presidency. He seeks the 1907 1911 term, aiming to lead the nation as a central figure in the forthcoming political contest.
An effort is underway to have Secretary Bonaparte address the deep water convention in St Louis November 15 to 17. It is likely a fleet of war vessels will accompany him up the Mississippi to demonstrate the benefits of a deep channel from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.
Washington report says the Pulajane insurrection on Sama island, Philippine Islands, has been stamped out. Col. A. Williams of the department of the Visayas reported to the War Department that no organized bands of Pulajanes are now at large.
From Tampa comes word that Havana is sealed around President Palma who reportedly remains confined to the palace as the rebellion widens. Insurgents under Pino Guerra claim two thousand fighters, with San Juan de Martinez and San Luis towns seized, while local liberals rally to the cause and demand new elections.
A historic rainfall in Kansas City from 4 to 7 am neared six inches, flooding low areas and overwhelming sewer systems. Homes were washed from foundations, dozens displaced, and rivers blocked streets. A sewer burst at Elmwood Cemetery unleashed water that uncovered graves and caskets. Fire and police reserves conducted rescues of trapped people, horses, and belongings.
The American Association directors met in Milwaukee to probe charges against Minneapolis manager M J Kelley and Secretary Lydiard related to umpire Clarence Owens. Owens was acquitted. Kelley and Lydiard were suspended and cited for trial to show cause for possible expulsion.
Federal court in Cape Girardeau held an unexpected session to select jurors from this district for the Smith brothers peonage case set for trial in September. District Attorney D. P. Dyer of St. Louis urged excluding several counties to avoid prejudice. Judge Lewis of Colorado presided.
Kansage City officials Lyons and Burk were arraigned before Judge Wofford on a conspiracy charge to raise ice prices. The Central Ice and People's Ice Storage and Fuel companies are named in the case.
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