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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1901
Page
2
Diphtheria reaches Horton. strange town quirks from Neodesha to Flora, including fake opera, building plans, early elections, mule theft, and woodsman bets. Barton lake nearing completion. snake of small towns report criminals, weather tales, and oddities across Kansas.
A Philadelphia woman, Mrs. Buggins, laments conventional dress and imagines women wearing pajamas like her husband. She visits a Chestnut street haberdasher to buy boys’ pajamas, asks about a No 18 collar, and must have items made to order, returning home disappointed.
The text lists ancient and ironic prohibitions in warfare such as firing langrels and poisoning food, while allowing submarine mines and ramming ironclads. It contrasts banned methods with extreme acts like sinking ships and fleets, highlighting contradictory codified norms from an era.
Copy of the 1904 almanac issued by the Royal Baking Powder Co promises weather forecasts for every day by Prof DeVoe who predicted the Galveston cyclone. Women readers can obtain a copy free by sending a request to 100 William St New York.
Portland's Police Judge Judah rode a bicycle on a forbidden sidewalk. A reprimand led him to swear out a warrant for his own arrest. He was arrested, brought to his own court, pleaded guilty, fined himself one dollar, and paid the fine in court.
Researchers describe tanks that hold up to 2000 pounds of fish and use a pump driven current to keep fish swimming. Water cycles five times per hour and re oxygenates, preserving fish for days at low cost. Sixteen hundred pounds stayed fresh for eight days in one tank.
A Chicago visitor reports Saratoga men resist drinking non produced water, viewing imported water as an insult. The anecdote notes residents would consider such a guest an enemy for ordering foreign springs.
Prof. Pickering of Harvard University begins erecting an observatory at Woodlawn near Mandeville for his colossal telescope. He took observations of the planet Bros in December and will study the moon and Mars with similar effort. important results are expected.
The president's secretary George B Cortelyou served as a key executive figure during McKinley's illness and war days. Born in New York July 2 1862 he rose from assistant secretary in 1898 to a trusted confidant responsible for orders and policy carries. He studied law at Georgetown and Columbian University earning LL B and LL M degrees and joined New York social and press circles as a prominent writer and commentator.
A large room in Governor Theodore Roosevelt's Oyster Bay residence displays guns and hunting trophies, including a grand gray wolf pelt. The wolf was killed by Agnes Mullsall, a girl from Oklahoma, who lassoed it from Indian ponies while her father owns extensive Oklahoma grazing lands.
A remarkable account describes Michael Davitt who lost his right arm at age ten in a manufactory. His handwriting stands out as unusually clear and superior to that of two-handed writers who use only one hand, matching the skill of right-handed writers.
A Virginia woman writes from Hampton describing long lasting ovarian and uterine pain. She praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after four months of use and urges others to seek her advice and treatment.
An advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages and offers 100 dollars if it fails. It promotes internal use to cleanse blood and mucous surfaces and mentions Garfield Tea and Hall's Pills. A separate note cites a car collision injury and a fright induced white hair change.
An OCR stripped page fragment shows medical quackery style ads and testimonials for cold cures and tonics including DAXXATIVE Bromo QUININE TABLETS and Piso's Cure. Mentions Grove's signature and multiple parodied lines about married men and poets.
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