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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1907
Page
5
A LiverpoolMercury quotation urges showing goodwill and sympathy now. It argues that flowers and praise are best used while the person is alive, not at the funeral, and encourages visiting the living to help them.
A Baltimore American snippet humorously mimics a traveler's flirtation, with playful lines praising a beloved’s blue eyes and yellow hair using hotel imagery. The speaker likens cheeks to red lipstick and a voice to a soft porter’s knock, oddly noting a train missed late at night.
A fragment describes a woman praised for flawless beauty likened to a Greek statue. It notes her face was white yet not pale or weak in health and that her looks drew universal attention, aging but preserving much of her appeal.
Beaver News lists local notices from Bollen School adding a new heating stove to the facility. Names like Laban Johnson and Andrew Johnson appear among visiting relatives and social gatherings. A J Nelson public sale is announced on his farm near Courtland on January 28 at 11 A.M. Community members attend church and celebrate birthdays with small parties and meals.
A scanned ledger lists numerous property transfers including leases and lot sales in Belleville, Cuba, and surrounding areas. Buyers and sellers are individuals and couples such as JE Baird Kate Koditek Peart Krahe Mary Roberts Annaeleecky Sophia Straad Mary Elliott Lydia Wilmot and Mattie Walker with varied parcel details and prices from $50 to $4,000 plus summaries of several block and lot designations in multiple additions.
A Irish judge, presiding over a case involving an employee suing his employer after being kicked by a horse, questions the Irishness of defense counsel and the reasoning given by a mule. The report notes humor and regional quirks in courtroom exchange. Erie port reports annual turtle cargo from Port Clinton aboard schooner Bertha Wallace weighing 2700 pounds.
A garbled fragment traces the saying Catching a Tartar to a clash between Hussans and Tartars with a Russian soldier. It mentions De Cockburn and cigars from London’s 1st reference, recounting a voyage to Porto Bello and a desert island, with friars supplying smoke.
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