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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
3
Will Black of Courtland is in town Friday. Several visitors and locals travel between Courtland, Cuba, Kansas City, and nearby towns for the holidays. Names include Miss Etta Stowell, Miss Maud Phillips, Mr. James Smith, Mrs. T. C. Preble, Fred Ayers, Glenn Preble, and many other residents from Lincoln, Hallenbeck, Superior, Hudson, Manhattan, Randall, and Mason City visiting relatives and spending Christmas.
Ed Seabolt and Jo Wolcott visit Belleville friends from Chandler Oklahoma and Republic relatives. George Haney hosts a Kansas brother, Lottie Rockhold visits Republic, and John Peterson plans a turkey shoot south of town Saturday. Amy McKee from Atchison visits her parents, taxes for John Ayers are lower, Mrs Goold settles her husband's estate, and W L Bowersox returns from college for holidays. Rev Maurice Nichols and wife travel from Lovewell to attend the Nichols Barrett wedding. Clarence Tebow and wife expect a son on December 23 at Courtland. Frank Swyhart brings home his son from the Home for Little Wanderers in St Joseph.
Dalton Heaton, a District 119 teacher, escaped with scorched fingers after an explosive powder in his coat pocket ignited from a discarded cigar match in W. L. Thomas store. An immediate inventory revealed several holes in his overcoat and damaged nerves from the shock.
A young man entered Louis Mendelssohn's cigar store at 8 St. Mark's Place and offered to swap a ten dollar bill for ten ones to mail to his sister in Philadelphia. The plan unraveled when the proprietor found a blank note inside the envelope and the suspect was seized by a bystander. he was later charged after police involvement.
Canton’s Physic Street is described as the world’s most peculiar road, roofed with glazed paper on bamboo. It hosts only apothecaries and dentists’ parlors, no other shops or professional men. A sick man’s paradise and a Chinese physician’s Klondyke.
A reprint warns that soft drinks can be deadly when misused. It cites cases from an eastern asylum, Atlanta, and New York where excessive consumption of tea and soda led to fatal collapses, noting a New York youth reportedly drank seventy bottles daily for three days before dying.
Edward Krause describes a lavish Alt Mark wedding festival with thirty outriders a musicians from nearby villages and one hundred women in festal dress. The banquet used two oxen six calves three pigs forty eight fowls and over two hundredweight of fish. Fourteen tuns of beer and 750 bottles of wine flowed freely.
Lia Para Grande, the largest grape vine, aged seventy five years on a Montejo Valley ranch near Santa Barbara, is dying and will be recorded. Owner Albert Magee of Pittsburgh wires plans to move the vine to a museum as a specimen of Santa Barbara County viticulture. The trunk measures three feet with a belt circumference, trellis height surpassing a man’s head, and branches stretching six feet, once yielding about four tons of grapes.
The Youth s Companion reports a witty exchange in England where a clerk named from Berkshire quips at Lord North s annual budget speech. The clerk s pun triggers a playful moment as Whith dog Whith barks in the chamber prompting laughs.
A cartoonish exchange jokes about gasoline stoves in a home. Stubb praises the open kitchen vent as bold, while Penn asks how it dares to blow up the cook, implying comic danger around the stove.
The telegraph will be extended 1 000 miles south of Khartoum by the end of the year. The plan expands communications infrastructure across Africa, promising faster links for regional administration and trade.
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