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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1927
Page
8
A humorous reflection on endings of visits. A vacationing relative overstays, and the family weighs the need to return to duties versus keeping guests. A distant relative once overstayed. relief arrives when the visit ends, yet they return again, illustrating the difficulty of knowing when to end a call.
In Topeka near Burnett's mound the crest bears numerous pairs of initials and dates carved in large boulders. Most inscriptions date 1880 to 1900 with few after 1910. Modern towers are not noted to visit the summit or record new trysts in stone.
Walter Eckersall, who helped run the Army Notre Dame game, told a friend there is no surplus weight to shed and urged becoming a football official. He notes his playing weight was 144 pounds even now.
A Geneva dispatch reports the former German Kaiser bought two small islands on Lake Maggiore opposite Locarno Switzerland. One island will be renamed Island of the World's Peace. He plans a winter residence there. The deal, around £14 000, was arranged by his business manager Baron Von der Rheidt.
A reminiscence about Hilda, a valued guest who overstays and the hosts’ wish for guests to know when to depart. The narrator recalls her consistent habit of declaring a fixed visit length and leaving with warm goodbyes, hoping other guests learn to go on time.
Mrs. Alice B. Davis, at 75, served as chief of the Seminoles in 1922 and twice acted to complete tribal business. She later opposed a deed selling Hmamaka mission lands, was removed, but remains active as a record keeper and interpreter in oil land disputes. She is the daughter of John F. Brown and Lucy Red Beard.
Nebraska researchers report a new mammoth type named Amedelodop Vricki found in Frontier County. The lower jaw, tusks and teeth remain, with tusks extending from the lower jaw like a shovel. Dr E G Barbour and Dr Henry Fairfield Osborn note the specimen dates back 1 to 2 million years and will join the University of Nebraska hall of elephants.
A science note explains the horse foot as a toe with five toes originally. As horses bore weight on the center toe the others dwindled and vanished. The nail hardened and formed the hoof to protect the toe, a process described in a 1927 Western Newspaper Union item.
Pittsburgh inventor Harold N. Cox introduces a simple lens attachment for ordinary cameras to capture color motion pictures. He says the process reproduces any color the eye sees and can be developed and printed with standard black and white or color methods without extra cost.
A First National player Mary Astor wears a gray Angora sweater with gray and black striped effects. She pairs it with a dark gray back ground skirt featuring dull red and black stripes and adds a silk scarf in Deauville style with a red border for a chic finish.
A housewife smiles at a basket of clear white clothes praising Red Cross Ball Blue. The caption notes a grocery ad scene with domestic satisfaction and laundry pride.
The article notes lettuce as one of the oldest food plants with origins dating back over two millennia, possibly used by Persian royalty.
Mrs Brown asks about murder in hunting tale. Mrs Smith replies that her husband killed nothing but time and could not even hit the guide.
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