Horses Pasture Listing Describes Four Mares and Weight
Bay mare eight in foal weight 1300 pounds, sorrel mare five weight 1200, gray mare nine weight 1400, black mare twelve weight 4400.
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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1904
Page
2
Bay mare eight in foal weight 1300 pounds, sorrel mare five weight 1200, gray mare nine weight 1400, black mare twelve weight 4400.
The item lists 33 brood sows, including 20 to 59 head stock hogs and a Poland China boar. It notes equipment like two discs, a John Deere riding cultivator, a wagon, a spring wagon, and a champion binder. A fragment cites a Washington Star quote about safe cracking and burglary methods as shared commentary.
A dated list shows issued marriage licenses with names and residences across multiple Nebraska locations. Entries include ages and partners such as Georgetitoughton and Nackley, Lyons and Berry, Doctor and Neville, Munden residents, and others from Belleville, Scandia, Courtland, and surrounding towns. Notices mention local hardware and harness stock arrivals and measles illness among residents.
A column compares German and English kitchenware noting the superiority of German items such as a porcelain rolling pin over wooden ones. It mentions jugs with narrow tops and square handles as cleaner, alongside a London humor piece about a chemist’s store stock. A Belgian aviation scene in Brussels recounts King Leopold’s insistence on preserving Belgium’s integrity during Nadar’s balloon ascent.
The Iguazu Falls form a boundary between Argentina and Brazil with a 210 foot leap in a narrow bend and two 100 foot drops on the Argentine side. The total cascade runs 6000 feet from Brazilian entry to the last fall on the Argentine side. The article also notes few horse powered streetcar lines in select U S cities and that cable railways have waned to only two exclusive lines.
Health notes report 7 month old Jp Vandeveer and Doh Downing both ill with pleurisy this week. Meanwhile a Journal item lists hunting license rules across states noting nonresidents barred in several states and that Wyoming charges $60 while Washington requires the least.
A Paris trend hyping glossomancy as a science reads character by the tongue. It claims long tongues indicate frankness, short tongues dissimulation, broad tongues expansiveness, and narrow tongues concentration.
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