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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1924
Page
4
Batteries offered for sale at Slaughter's for one dollar. A notice lists Carl and a black male hog for sale, and mentions Art Cardwell with phone number 2304. Wm Wilson bought a Ford roadster from Fritz Virus this week.
Various notes describe for sale or rent five acre tract and six room house, social entertainments at Welcome Circle, New Year gatherings, and holiday visits. People mentioned include Nellie Christiansin from Kansas City, Ray Tingstrom departing for Horton Kansas, Mrs McKenzie and daughter from Omaha, Norman Currie ill with pneumonia, Eric Wennerston visiting from Texas, W Eberhardt moving to Washington street, the Won Slopatsaky family in Belleville, Paul Preble in Kansas City, Miss Grace Sandborn traveling with her brother, the 88 Home Circle club, Mrs Walter Boman improving from pneumonia, Luther League at Alexis home, W S English at St Joseph, Edith Smith hosting rock party, George Jesndebeuer and Ada returning from Norcatur, Helen Beymer returning to Belleville, and local activities at L A Melby home and various societies.
Coal dealers in Colorado Kansas and Pennsylvania offer coal and hides for sale and promise top prices. Notices mention meeting at Jake Weis logel home and payments for hides. A Boulder Colorado accident seriously injures Amanda Jensen. her brother Alfred Jensen travels there.
A family recalls a fearsome rat in their cellar that sparked a kitchen fire by chewing matches. They finally trapped it with Rat Snap, leaving no odor. Rat Snap sold by Haggmann Wires Drug Store in three sizes 35c 65c and 1 25 with a guarantee.
A drugstore notice touts Lovoptik eye wash blending camphor hydrastis and witch hazel. It claims to strengthen weak strained or sore eyes and to act quickly with an aluminum eye cup offered free. Haggman and Wires, Druggists.
Beginning Monday I will again be at my bench cleaning and pressing clothes. All work given careful attention.
In Central Union Union township communities celebrate a peaceful Christmas with good harvests. Everyone praises fortune but Glen Housholder quips that Erickson has 20 acres of unharvested corn and a blizzard from Canada will help. The crowd agrees and moves to act.
A Friday noon harvest scene unfolds as Erickson’s corn is husked amid a rush of neighbors including Glenn and Dee Housholder and Roy Hall with teams and wagons. Onlookers crowd fences and streets while corn ears fill the throw board and the crib bulges. The next day the Housholders return to finish, with many locals listed among witnesses and participants.
A damaged OCR fragment shows prices like 250 and 65¢ with references to a drug store Wagemann & Wires. It includes garbled lines about poison, meat, cakes, and subscriptions, lacking a clear event or coherent subject. The readable elements suggest an old commerce notice or classified fragment from a drugstore ad.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness during our bereavement and for gathering our corn. Rev. Gutter and the choir, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Walter Henry and family.
James M. Sory and family express thanks to friends and neighbors and the R N A for kindness and sympathy shown during sickness and death. Beloved wife and mother is gratefully recalled through rural offerings and prayers.
State meteorologist S TD Flora reports that moisture is sufficient for the wheat crop across Kansas. Ground east and south of Wichita is too wet for farm work while snow in southwest counties slows sorghum threshing and some crop damage occurs in ricks. Corn husking nears completion as mild conditions continue statewide.
The seven year old son of Ed McKinney had his right hand severed near the wrist after grabbing a feeder chain at a corn shelter. He was taken to Concordia hospital where doctors reportedly removed the injured limb above the wrist. The accident occurred Friday morning as warnings were ignored and the boy played near the machine.
A fragment of a historic recipe text describes making a meat pie using celery onion meat broth tomatoes and thickening then baking in a crust. It also details a cocoa bread dough with yeast milk sugar cocoa and butter rising twice before baking into loaves.
A home bake tip notes baking 40 to 45 minutes with an initial hot oven then moderate heat. It recommends buying Clyde's Best Flour at Star Grocery.
A simple mixture named Ad lerika including buckthorn bark and glycerine is touted by Hageman & Wires, Druggists as an appendicitis preventative. The product is said to draw foul matter from the system and relieve sour stomach gas and constipation with one spoonful.
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