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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
3
Halliday pieces together a mansion crime using hidden passages, a sliding panel, and a shifting cast of suspects. He tracks Bethel, Gordon, and the Livingstones, linking cipher clues, a broken lens, and a polemical letter to expose the culprit during a dramatic third seance and a fatal fall.
Examiners note surprising and humorous answers from Australian high school students in Sydney. A sample mentions Sir Francis Drake discovering an invisible armada and monks in European monasteries drinking tea as their principal distraction. A pupil claims Elizabeth I faced parliamentary pressure to marry, a point Parliament never urged of Henry VII.
The text traces installment buying from antiquity to today. Crassus supposedly profited from building houses outside Rome and selling on installments. It notes a century of sales growth and a decade of tremendous expansion in installment buying.
Poem praises a self starting automobile with no need for buttons or gears. It extols reliability low maintenance and steady spark plugs while blaming rising gas costs and summons from speed cops. The piece uses playful dialect and references American forests and Forest Life.
The article recalls how the early Spanish trails across New Mexico echo through desert routes. It traces the historic paths used by explorers and settlers, highlighting enduring cultural contact and landscape memory.
Excerpts describe a man’s descent into madness and the frightening use of a living disguise. The narrator recalls a split psyche with day and night lives, the subtle manipulation of appearances, and suspicions about paralysis and identity. The tone hints at a deeper, unresolved mystery.
Many people mistake indigestion for a chronic condition, but an acid issue can be fixed quickly. Phillips Milk of Magnesia neutralizes acid, easing sourness and gas right after meals and preventing post dinner distress. It provides lasting relief unlike temporary soda burns.
A fourteen month old child crawled toward railroad tracks in Kansas City Kansas as an approaching train halted just before the engine could reach him. The infant bumped his head when he raised it to look at the commotion, then cried until his mother comforted him.
A brief cartoonish quip shows a customer asking about tongue sandwiches and a waiter replying that they speak for themselves, highlighting dry humor.
The article extols Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a gentle safe laxative using senna and herbs to treat constipation biliousness and indigestion since 1875. It emphasizes mild non narcotic action suited for children and the elderly and offers a free trial bottle via mail order from Monticello Illinois.
Senator Sorghum compares a lame duck to a bird without wings, noting it cannot fly yet retains its kicking feet. The remark frames a political joke about pending terms and power.
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