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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1906
Page
1
Inspector McLaughlin argues New York is the crime clearinghouse and calls for tough measures to drive criminals from the city. The piece surveys heredity, environment, and social factors, noting the high costs of crime and debating reforms and preventive approaches.
A philosopher notes people fail to recognize their own faces though they study themselves daily. Photographs and mirrors fail to render the mind's eye, while others who resemble us spark a restless search to see the true likeness. The visitor finds the thoughts uncanny and unsettling.
James R. Keeler of Cazenovia New York says he suffered with back and kidney problems for fifteen years. After trying many remedies he found relief from the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills and was fully restored after two boxes. He recommends them to his wife and friends. sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
An editor notes the vast array of specialized periodicals from hay fever and dancing to bee weeklies and Marcel wave trends. He observes professions like shoemakers and bricklayers sustaining their own papers, and predicts auto and flight journals will follow as new trends emerge.
The hoatzin of South America starts life as a clawed nestling that climbs trees with wing claws, resembling the long extinct archaeopteryx. As they mature the claws vanish and the birds become ordinary in appearance, illustrating a rapid transformation over evolving bird lineages.
An Aroostook farmer offered two Passamaquoddy men $2.50 a day plus board to pick potatoes. They refused, saying they preferred to work for someone with a musical instrument to practice in the evenings, asking if he had an organ and then declining work.
The writer notes that current children’s literature in magazines lacks the dignified, instructive tone of classic tales like Puss in Boots. The Atchison Globe voices concern that six months without a truly engaging story leaves youth underserved.
A native Indian physician filled a death certificate with fragmented phrases noting death by starvation due to lack of feedings and possibly for comfortables, with a likely cause of drowning. The terse, uncertain language reflects the era's fatalist medical reporting and concerns over proper cause attribution in precarious conditions.
Subdued talk in British military circles centers on a forthcoming memoir edition containing some of the late Duke of Cambridge’s correspondence. A diary kept by Emperor Frederick of Germany is in safekeeping in England, with publication possibly near. Correct answers to historical enigmas may be expected from such works.
Velveteen should be washed by shaking in warm Ivory Soap suds, then rinsed thoroughly and drip dried. Do not squeeze or wring, hang it straight on the line to avoid crookedness.
Oxford University senate votes 206 to 169 to end publishing students names by merit in the mathematical tripos. There will be no senior wrangler in future.
An author writes a piece after seeking money, mails it to the editor, faces a likely rejection, and endures the absence of a reply. Readers are teased with the outcome before revealing the manuscript was ultimately accepted by the editor.
An advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as a remedy for indigestion and stomach distress caused by overeating starchy and fatty foods. A testimonial from a user details relief after two weeks and renewed appetite, with the Postum Company branding and the slogan There’s a reason.
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