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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1924
Page
1
The Amana Lutheran Church lists services after Christmas with gospel from Luke and schedules for New Year Eve and New Year Day plus Epiphany services and annual business meetings. The Swedish Methodist Church invites renewal as revival meetings start January 4 in City Hall with Watch Night Service and spiritual plans.
The article notes 115 attendees last Sunday with hope for 200 by Christmas. It mentions the pastor's sermon topics and a union meeting at City Hall in January. Merchants arranged candy, nuts distribution and a Santa visit for children at the Princess theater in Sandia.
The remark that experience teaches a dear school has a rural edge noting the farm as a place for work. It contrasts the indolent man who fits better in a cemetery with the value of diligence, while referencing jobless days on the farm as ashen without the cackle of activity.
A fragmentary reading lists quotes from Herrick Swinburne Nashe Smith Poe Rands and Wadsworth. The lines invoke doubt faith fear and action with references to liveliness exhaustion and choice. The piece resembles an anthology of remembered lines rather than a single narrative.
A compact marquee of quotations on life love and virtue from writers like Meredith Shakespeare Rochefoucauld and Burton. It blends cautions about fame fear honesty and the power of love with sharper, aphoristic lines about living well and staying true.
Adirondack guide Edward Spain reports a doe with two fawns near Beaver River. The mother, alarmed by the guide, carried the weaker fawn by the neck skin in her teeth into a swamp while the healthy fawn followed.
A quirky recap notes how in 1524 turkeys were taken to England as novelties and some escaped into cold storage. It recallsBoston patriots tossing tea into vast waters and how modern restaurants imitate that act. It ends with a nudge about paid subscriptions.
A collection of witty musings from Chester C. Conner in the Chicago American. The piece riffs on graft in farming, gender, investigations, and social theories with a satirical bite and a nod to seasonal humor.
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