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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1900
Page
3
Mrs W B Rhodes and Miss Lou Conner have been ill this week. Neil Riley recovers from fever. Jesse Nichols visits relatives at Glen Elder. Peter Strom returns from Colorado Springs to live near Sherdahl. Local sales and weather trips noted with holiday clerks at Whitney's. The Lutheran Church announces a Christmas tree on Thursday December 27 at 7 PM.
A short claim touts a remedy labeled Laxative Beefs acs Tablets promising a cold cure in one day. The text references a signature on every box and emphasizes rapid relief.
NORWAY BULLETIN lists Christmas wishes and illness notices, with residents like Miss Alice Anderson, Arthur Norris, and Mrs. S N Mellen. It records visits, travels to Jamestown and Concordia, farming plans for the Pierce farm, and social gatherings hosted by W Dunlap and Geo Smith, reflecting a small town holiday scene.
The note covers District 84 school closure from Dec 18 through holidays, chapel services, local visits, farm work, and building projects. It reports friends visiting Omaha, family gatherings for Christmas, and a long seasonal poem about Christmas bells and merrymaking.
Advertisement touts Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets as stopping the cough and curing the cold in one day with a no cure no pay claim. Price listed at 25 cents.
Daily notes include Douglass in Belleville Monday, Mrs Tebow in Scandia, a holiday vacation early, Mrs Black adding a town house, and Mrs Workman returning home. Also a husking bee at Charley Mizer’s, Mr Snider and son-in-law Perry plan western Kansas moves, and Cuba Kansas visitors prep Oklahoma relocation. An ad for Davenport cigars and DeWitt’s Little Early Risers pills ends the clip.
An advertisement touts Vale Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a promise of refunds if ineffective. It notes the box carries Ky W Grove’s signature and references DedWitt’s and Little Bar Risers as dainty pills claimed to cleanse the liver remove obstructions and invigorate the system.
The clipping lists weekly subscription credits for individuals such as BE Beckman and Oscar Lagerstrom with amounts, followed by ad copy for Kadol Digestive Cure and One Minute Cough Cure. It references new subscribers and quitters and includes small notes on health remedies and urgent help for life threatening situations.
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