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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1920
Page
3
Kansas farmers deny a wheat strike as sowing for the 1920 crop reaches 9,892,441 acres. The fall wheat area ranks among the third largest in state history, only 6.3 percent below 1919, with exceptions from moisture and market conditions.
Governor Allen proposes merging thirty state boards and bureaus into three or four departments to cut duplication and save money. Health, agriculture, water, and labor functions would be centralized under fewer agencies, with a public utilities commission overseeing the water survey board and an industrial court handling wage disputes and labor matters. The governor criticizes current scattered structures and seeks coordinated administration. A separate case notes a dangerous all night doctor led rescue for an eight month old using a stomach pump after pills containing strychnine were swallowed. He also protests boxing exhibitions at the federal penitentiary and asks Kansas to block showings of pictures of Johnson and other inmates on Thanksgiving Day.
Coffeyville moves to build a five story hotel with one hundred and twenty rooms at about 300000 under the Coffeyville Chamber of Commerce. Shepard and Wiser of Kansas City will design the structure.
A special election in Kansas Sixth district will replace the late J. M. Gilman who served four terms and died at his Leavenworth home. Also reported: mastodon remains from Smoky Hill River site near Junction City identified by fossil teeth at Kansas State Agricultural College Manhattan. Kansas labor bureau unit head Purcell resignation received by state labor commissioner John L. Crawford.
Raymond B Fosdick argues American cities face crime far beyond European police capacity. He cites 1914–1919 homicide, burglary, and robbery figures comparing New York Chicago London and other cities to show U S crime rates surpass European totals even amid war. He links immigration and assimilation to crime levels.
Automobile owned by Ed Cantrill traded for a horse and buggy and a hound hunting privilege. John Harris owned a mare and surrey and his famed possum dog, Warren County’s notable trade story.
In Stettin Germany 5000 Germans remain in Russian camps while 200000 Russians still in German prisons. Exchanged prisoners suffer mistreatment and bitterness toward both Russia and Germany. Germany has spent 80 million marks for transporting Russians home and 90 million marks to release Germans from Russia.
In Kohay Mississippi eight hundred residents plan relocating their town. Buildings will be moved on wheels and flatcars along a logging road to a site ten miles north of the current location.
Bernard Parrocini, cellist with the Symphony orchestra, is back in town to devote all time to his art after a year abroad. He spent nearly his entire inheritance of 25,000 dollars on Europe trips, leaving 500 dollars. He will receive 180,000 dollars at age sixty one, five years hence.
Thousands of former German officers discharged after the armistice join the unemployed, some take hard labor while others live on meager pensions. Wives work for small wages, widows support children on tiny pensions, and many veterans beg or sell matches on the streets. A man collapse on Unter den Linden illustrates the hunger gripping veterans.
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