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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
6
The piece contrasts traditional Christmas customs with modern electric convenience. It notes electric cars delivering visitors, electric lights and telephones, radio and telegraph greetings, electric stoves and ovens, and a wide range of useful electric gifts from heating devices to appliances and toys, suggesting fewer useless trinkets this year.
Get a sample book of wallpaper and craft a waste paper basket pattern six inches at the top tapering to four inches bottom and 12 inches high. Cut four cardboard sections and a 4x4 inch bottom square, cover with wallpaper edges pasted to the wrong side, and tie sections with baby ribbon for varied sizes and uses.
A brief Tribune quip recalls Lady Godiva's compromise how the original demand was for a directoire gown. The remark notes the era set a line on public display and propriety.
A governess recounts a failed attempt to cook on a gasoline stove. Bridget reports trying to relight it, but the flame would not return, remarking it went out through the roof. This scene reflects domestic friction and limited stove reliability.
Official totals show Taft at 57,676, or 637,676. Bryan 63,823, Debs 4, etc. Prohibition 3 68,241,252. Independence 83,186. Socialist Labor 15,421. Overall, 14,852,25 cents. Compared to 1904, Republican, Democratic and Socialist gains exceed prior totals while Prohibition, Populist and Socialist Labor fall back. Independence did not appear four years ago.
Twenty five glass workers from Independence head to Fredonia to join the Fredonia Glass company as Osage window plant faces a Friday deadline. Caney and Coffeyville plants may close if a flat 25 percent wage increase is not adopted, ending the sliding scale. Wages cited include gatherers earning 90 to 100 dollars for four weeks, cutters around 70, and snappers about 12 per week.
United States District Judge John C. Pollock denied the habeas corpus writ for R. B. Shepard of Salt Lake City. Shepard sought release from Leavenworth federal penitentiary after a five year sentence for sending obscene literature through the mails. An appeal was intimated.
Harry W. Showers, a homesteader, sustained a crushed ankle when a Santa Fe engine injured him in the Syracuse roundhouse. He was taken to Ka Junction hospital in Colorado. His wife and 12 children, living on a nearby claim, face hardship due to his disability.
A poor man asks for charity and is mocked as a fraud after a few questions. He claims a hoodoo curse and says he will seize time by the forelock to change his fate. The companions are convinced and all chip in to help.
A vintage promotional note offers a $100 reward for any catarrh case not cured by Hal's Catarrh Cure. It describes internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces, claiming constitutional restoration and strength. The ad cites F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo Ohio and lists a 75 cent price for the cure and an invitation to send testimonials.
A humorous exchange about a boy whose mother punishes Eddie’s friend prompts a note on home laundry. An advertisement touts Defiance Starch for durable shirt waist washing at home. Also cited are livestock counts in Australia and New Zealand and a Piles cure claim for Pau Ointment with a 6 to 14 day guarantee.
New Haven author Donald Grant Mitchell known as Ik Marvel died at his Edgewood residence Marvelwood after an illness that began in August with an acute indigestion attack. He was 84.
The Delaware WCTU passed a resolution urging Governor elect Pennewell to seek substitution of water for wine at namings. The report also notes the new battleship Delaware at Newport News in February.
President elect Taft traveled from New York to Washington at Roosevelt's request and spent two hours in conference at the White House. He arrived at 1 33 p m and departed for Augusta Georgia at 4 12 p m.
A Franco American committee is formed to oversee erection in Paris of a monument to Horace Wells, a Hartford chemist credited with discovering laughing gas, commemorating his contribution.
An unusually heavy frost occurred Thursday morning across southern California causing concern for possible damage to fruit and other crops.
Two engineers Webb and Thatcher were seriously injured in a passenger train collision on the Big Four near Woodruff Thursday night in Peoria Illinois. All passengers escaped injury.
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