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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1905
Page
6
A large Christmas goods selection with toys, handkerchiefs, gloves, ties, and many useful presents. Japanese ware and hand painted chinaware add to a handsomely stocked shop offering overcoats and suits just arrived.
Retail note announces special reduced prices on cloaks and furs with a strong push to buy now. Limited selections remain as season marks down attract shoppers.
Local ad lists four cans of Standard Corn Buckwheat Flour among grocery specials. No additional details on price or brand are provided.
Moses Bushby shipped part of a car load of April and May lambs to Kansas City last week, topping the market at 7.50 per hundred and averaging 91 pounds for a total of 6.80 per head. He has about a hundred well bred sheep left and touts the flock's value.
Telegram from Mrs Emma Gunter of Omaha reports Ed V Peterson died there at noon after suffering painter's consumption and tubercules surgeries failed. Born in Chicago in 1876 he moved with parents to Scandia in 1884, grew up there and later left to seek his fortune. He was a popular young man and his body rests in Omaha's cemetery.
The Atchison Globe questions the notion of a good mixer a man who easily socializes versus a poor mixer who stays private. It argues buyers care about price and availability, not whether a dealer is a “good fellow.”
A Brooklyn Times note promotes posture and form for women. Exercises help establish a proper standing habit and standing posture. Raising the head crown high and lifting the chest toward the chin improves carriage, reduces waist size, improves lung power, and tones the abdomen.
Mrs C E Wheeler Miss Lotta Stover and Olga Hugos hosted a Harvest Home event with a red decor theme and a corn fodder centerpiece holding 24 harvest items to guess. Prizes went to Mrs Zimmerman and later to Miss Emma Poage and Mr James Anderson. refreshments included oysters cheese wafers coffee cake and nuts.
A cautionary note urges patients with catarrh to sleep alone and avoid sharing towels or soap. It warns against kissing and close breath sharing while acknowledging that many people lose faith in precautions as a cold travels through the household.
A small ad list announces children’s holiday goods from M. A. Preble and a rug sale at Gullick’s with 40 styles for Christmas. Presbyterian church to hold services next Sabbath morning and evening with a church session meeting to receive members after each service. A birth notice reports a son born Monday December 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sjholm. Also notes plans by The Rock Island to drill another water well locally and a medicine recommendation for colds from Palace Drug Store.
An angel appeared in the office Monday evening in a whimsical scene. The writer notes the figure’s gender was unclear and suggests only the writer recognized him as such before segueing into an advertisement for Gulick’s holiday candy specials at low prices for schools and churches.
Considerable corn is being marketed these days as farmers with full cribs turn off the surplus. Mr Gee B Smith was to for mosa Wednesday.
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