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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
8
In a reflective piece the narrator recalls a New Year's quarrel and reveals how love, forgiveness, and personal growth shaped the past year. The essay argues happiness comes from making others happy, and urges sincere good wishes and proactive kindness as the century turns. It also muses on vanity, new fashions, and humanity’s ceaseless search for novelty.
A New Year poem notes how turning a diary date is hard and suggests habits for starting anew. It cites the old year fading, the silver wear of Christmas gifts, and the idea that keeping a diary offers credit to those who gave presents.
A brief dialogue shows Brown anxious about finances as Green jokes about Christmas gifts. Brown reveals a large bundle of statements from his overcoat, while Green laughs at the idea of gifting without counting the cost.
The scene shows a somber moment as Brown explains the gifts are not for presents but for his wife. Green asks what they are for and Brown replies they are for the wife’s gifts, prompting a quiet acknowledgment and handshakes among the men.
The piece examines the New Year greeting and asks what happiness means. It cites varied desires from candy and bedtime to money, fame, and social rank, arguing happiness rests on spending and personal choices rather than wealth itself.
The piece questions the value of New Year greetings and asks readers whether such words are mere form or a pledge to act with kindness. It suggests true wishing should relieve anxieties and bring happiness to others, urging genuine intent behind goodwill.
Fragmentary lines describe a figure named Neto entering the world, with references to harmonies, cries, and a mix of sweet and discordant tones. The mood blends sadness and courage as a threshold moment is depicted. The text reads like poetic, stylized prose.
A fragment notes an official form and a formal New Year greeting. The speaker recalls the bearing of the official, noting an austere mood and a remark about a salary being arranged in Chicago.
A Pekin dispatch reports the final obstacle removed as the joint note is signed by all foreign ministers including the Netherlands envoy. The document will be delivered to Li Hung Chang while some Chinese factions doubt negotiations will move forward. Britain’s demand on indemnity could delay settlement, requiring years rather than immediate payment of 1,000,000,000 taels.
The Illinois General Assembly to convene in January will be asked to amend laws to impose the gallows for kidnapping for ransom. Following the Edward Cudahy case, legislators from Chicago are drafting bills. The current penalty is five years or a $100 fine or both. Both parties expect unanimous support for the death sentence.
Governor Roosevelt announced the removal of Col Asa Bird Gardner from office as district attorney of New York County. Simnugene J Philbin, a Democrat, was appointed to fill the vacancy on the state charities board. A memorandum cites Gardner's conduct around the election regarding the indictment of Chief of Police Devery and a controversial order to the police force.
Chicago police say Pat Crowe, linked to the Cudahy kidnapping, left for Omaha about two weeks ago with others from his circle. Crowe, while jailed in Joliet, had a wife who worked as forewoman in labeling at the Cudahy Packing plant in Omaha.
The Western Packer Sy Canned dods association met in Chicago on December 20 with representatives from Iowa Indiana Wisconsin and Illinois. They discussed the canned goods oversupply and backed curtailing production to reduce the glut next year.
Four year old Eugene eight year old Julia and six year old Francis Reaum children of farmer Raymond Reaum living near Ojibway Conn drowned December 20 after falling through a hole in ice on Purkey creek Their bodies were recovered from the creek bottom under about four feet of water.
The Daily Mail reports widespread unrest in Cape Colony near the Orange River with open revolt feared. Boers use backcountry Dutch support to press the fight while a second invading force aimed at Britstown fades in Cedarburg mountains. De Aar dispatch notes yeomanry driving Boers from Hout Kraal as forces regroup westward.
A young employee stole $14 from the Polk County Independent safe. He was arrested at Silver Creek and brought back by Sheriff Nuquist. In county court before Judge Ball he pleaded guilty to petit larceny and returned $5, receiving a fifteen day jail sentence with no bread and water. The defendant, a former Third Nebraska Regiment member, influenced the lenient ruling.
Three burglars were captured near Tilden by John Ashburn and an assistant after stealing 1500 dollars in dry goods from Wolf Bros. of Elgin. The suspects resisted arrest but were brought to town and held by the sheriff. stolen goods found in grain sacks loaded into a heavy spring wagon.
Detectives filed complaints against John Whalen and John Richardson in Plattsmouth Nebraska for stealing a large quantity of brass from the local works. Richardson was captured in Omaha while trying to dispose of some metal. Each man was bound over in 350 dollars. Whalen is a longtime employee and well known in the community.
The Security Title and Trust Company officials report teller Harry Sc Wieser is short about 29000 dollars in his accounts. He has transferred a real estate valued at 26000 dollars to secure himself and lies at home in nervous prostration. Authorities believe he traded in the stock market.
The remains of Harry C. Fisk of Nebraska, who died in Honolulu en route to the Philippines, arrived at Adams and were taken to his mother Mrs. N. M. White’s home. A short service will be held and the remains laid to rest.
Fred Raier a farmer eight miles southwest of Adams suffered a severe hand injury when his hand was drawn into a worn sheller gearing. Dr W N Ramey attended and performed amputation of the hand to save the man.
Howard G. Pinney of Herrick Illinois is arrested charged with selling cattle valued at 4500 dollars belonging to a Chicago commission company. Pinney resold the cattle and his agents shipped them to a St Louis firm while the Chicago firm’s agent was away from the country.
A passenger train from Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern struck a buggy containing three young men named Reinsell Neax Shell Rock Iowa Dee 20th. Two were instantly killed and the third fatally hurt.
The Spanish cabinet council plans to present to the chamber a project for selling Cagayan Island and other Philippine islands to the United States.
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