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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
8
On a frosty dawn ride, the narrator and foreman track deer across a sagebrush plain and through cedar canyons. They shoot a young black tailed doe for dinner, dress it, poison entrails to deter wolves, and later bag a buck before crossing thawing ice on the river. They finish the trek returning triumphant with their Christmas meal.
The piece profiles James Bailey near Regina who bought 640 acres at 18 per acre, broke and cropped it to yield 19 875 bushels of wheat and 4 750 bushels of oats in two years. Wheat at 84c and oats at 28c produced 17 550 in crop earnings with land value rising to 22 400, total 28 540, amid Grand Trunk Pacific development.
A French novelist Myriam Harry becomes the first woman to cross the salt marsh desert of Shott Jerid in southern Tunis by automobile. The treacherous morass is famed for swallowing caravans and claimed great depth per De Lesseps estimates.
A curt exchange in a dated social vignette features a man praising a wife’s hat and Mr. Bliggins responding with a witty remark about queens and millinery, highlighting old fashioned compliment humor and social nuance.
The notice urges careful inspection of CASTORIA bottles for the safe remedy used for over 30 years and bearing the signature. A pasted dialogue shows Mrs Crawford joking about letters from her husband while in the country and Mrs Crabshaw planning to keep them for comparison to catch him in a lie.
Advertisement claims Dr Detchon’s Relief cures rheumatism in 1 to 3 days. It says the remedy removes the cause and the disease quickly disappears. First dose greatly benefits. 75c Druggists.
The speaker riffs on a landlord-tenant scene with puns about oils and a joke about courtship. References to Izard and Hamlinaizard Oil appear as if from a quirky dialogue. The tone resembles a humorous aside in a domestic setting.
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue at leading grocers for 5 cents. The text also promotes Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething infants and mentions a proverb about poverty and jail.
A medical writer warns coughing bursts blood vessels and links coughs to fever and congestion. He condemns patent medicines and whiskey, endorsing a tonic laxative cough syrup with a five hour claimed cure and a recipe using wild cherry bark and cardiol essence.
A humorous exchange features a Scot at a dinner negotiating terms with a host. The pair joke about appetite and fair samples as they gauge agreement on further arrangements.
Belia notes the budget rejection and says nothing about marriage plans. The financial item hints at a royal match being parted by fiscal concerns.
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