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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
3
Lund and Rainey confront deception aboard the ship while the doctor, calm and sardonic, offers whisky and calm words. Rainey sips a drink, then succumbs to a sudden lethargy, collapsing as Lund calls for help and the captain reacts to the unfolding crisis.
Rainey, drugged and detained on the Karluk, plots with Lund’s ally to uncover the treasure story. Doctor Carlson rules aboard with Captain Simms, while Rainey feigns cooperation and watches for trustworthy allies amid a wary crew and a looming mutiny. Lund, blind but shrewd, senses danger and warns Rainey to seek shared leverage.
Reporter Rainey encounters a giant blind man aboard the Karluk who identifies Captain Simms as an old shipmate. Jim Lund accuses Simms of abandoning him on an ice floe and plans to join the voyage to a northern gold field Lund claims to have found. Peggy Simms defends her father during the confrontation.
A newly elected bank president introduces himself to staff and questions a longtime cashier's assistant who boasts a single error in 40 years. The president congratulates him but cautions to be more careful going forward.
A motorist asks directions to Perkins ferry and is told by a wealthy landowner who claims ownership of the surrounding country and ferry. The ferryman is described as a queer old duffer and independent, signaling social tensions in a rural setting.
A Scottish parish church elected a minister after the beadle loudly praised one candidate. When asked what proved his good qualities, the beadle replied that he always gets the minister's old clothes and that candidate was the only one about his size.
In Hy Glory the Pecktons faced a burglar at their home last night. T observed Peckton strutting about town, hoping to confront the intruder. Though the burglar was not captured, Peckton for the first time in twenty years issued sharp commands to Mrs. Peckton, who meekly obeyed.
Fragmentary exchange notes a quip about a man’s workday. It references hours and curiosity over the source of the claim in a terse conversational tone. The text centers on informal remark rather than a reported event or action.
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