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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1923
Page
3
A fragmentary monologue presents Mary Graham Bonner recalling Arctic Wolves. The speaker boasts white coats, summer foraging, and fat reserves to endure long winters while asserting fierce independence and fear in the wild. The voice emphasizes self reliance and warnings to others to stay away or stay silent.
The article argues the empire declined from overextension and internal decay. It cites split governance between Byzantium and Rome, heavy taxation, military drain, and failed policies of conciliation. Rome fell to the Goths in 408 A D and lost imperial might from that point forward.
The passage contrasts American and Russian storytelling, arguing that Americans favor fast, suspenseful thrillers. It cites writers who craft clever, mysterious situations that resolve with a pleasing, smile inducing ending similar to enjoying marshmallows, per William Lyor Phelps in the Yale Review.
A fragment from Montaigne condemns lying as a grievous vice and urges strict restraint of deceit. The speaker argues honesty binds families and communities and that lying, once learned, is hard to unteach, while willful obstinacy and minor faults should be challenged from infancy.
A Columbus department store clerk lets a woman take a suit and cap home to decide. She later returns, saying the clothes were lovely but she only wanted them to photograph her son, who she claimed did not have clothes as nice. The tale, attributed to the Indianapolis News, highlights a clothes borrowing ruse.
The piece notes psychology tests finding Monday near peak productivity and Tuesday the high point, with efficiency fading by Thursday and Friday labeled blue. It adds a Canadian pension report stating Col. John Thompson cites $35 million yearly pensions to 80,000 pensioners as part of a generous Canadian scheme observed during a Edmonton visit.
A newly patented electrical device, the phonophor, fits the outer ear with a tiny earpiece and uses a pocket transmitter to deliver sound. It promises hearing musical tones and speech with reduced noise, improving over earlier large, noisy hearing aids.
A اليابanese winter rite involves bathing in freezing water in a white kimono with a head wrap. Participants, mostly young tradesmen, carry lanterns and bells, chanting Rokken Shojo as they run to baths. The Fukawaga Ku temple bath is women only until 6 pm, open to men all day.
Tear gas mixed with hydrogen cyanide, a powerful disinfectant, yields a safer disinfection agent. Hydrocyanic acid kills vermin eggs and acts as an effective disinfectant, but is odorless and breath detection is delayed. The combination allows escape before cyanide acts, while tear gas signals its presence via eye irritation.
A reflective piece notes long term human progress and planetary fate, then questions census cider figures. It cites 1919 and 1909 gallons of cider, claiming undercounting of hard cider made illicitly and suggesting apples’ industry may decay as data miss underground production.
Belleville residents and travelers share holiday news as families visit from Kansas City to Seneca and Scandia. Distinctive mentions include Mr and Mrs M B Sheeks hosting kin, H L Keene back to Norton, and Emmett Keith family gatherings. Local updates cover renovations, sales, travel plans to California and Florida, and Christmas dinners across several farms and households.
Robert French and family depart Tuesday for California to stay months and weigh a western relocation. Frewen to farm five plow acres next year. Yeager sold land near Freedom township. Belleville visits include Archie Larson and Bert Bowen couples. Mrs Hayden of Clay California returned home after caring for Bula Clark recovering from pneumonia. Township board met at Ernest Mikesell’s. Smitten Belleville boys helped Merle Yeager haul wood to Elwood. John Clark shelled corn for James Mallory and Victor Clark.
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