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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
1
The Chicago Inter Ocean praises the nonchalant citizen who tends his family and does his work without noise. He supports government business calmly, avoids sensationalism, and offers a refreshing contrast to loud reformers, maintaining faith in the republic and a hopeful, steady world.
A Boston restaurant keeper faced cruelty to animals charges for keeping a green turtle in a window. Harvard professor testified the turtle is birdlike, while the defense argued it was a fish not an animal. The judge directed a not guilty verdict, prompting debate on whether cruelty laws should cover reptiles.
A Oak Park professor advocates a school to teach the art and science of courtship. The writer mocks the idea, arguing making courtship a studied activity would kill spontaneity. The proposed solution is to prohibit courtship by law, which the author deems a folly.
The passage portrays a ill friend as an ever ready excuse for latecomers and speeders. It notes the shock if the man were to recover, turning him into a pivotal though moralized symbol in delaying or excusing actions.
A Pennsylvania farmer attacked an automobile with a club when the driver did not stop after his cattle became frightened. The incident reflects public danger from motorists who fail to act reasonably and respect pedestrians' rights.
A savings bank official notes an unusual influx of counterfeit money into a infant’s savings, deeming such a prank on a baby more reprehensible than tampering with a coin box.
A Harvard professor argues that Gray's Elegy in a Country Churchyard would be rejected by a modern magazine editor due to its length and style. The remark notes changing editorial tastes since Gray's era.
A Chicago jury valued a songbird’s fingers at four times the value of the singer’s voice in a quirky civil dispute. The case contrasts artistic talent with physical assets in a novel verdict.
An Ohio man beat his wife with a baseball bat during housecleaning time after moving his bed. She reportedly would have tolerated it if he had only vented his anger on a rug or two.
In Kansas, gas powered and tractor pulled harvesting outfits replace horse labor. The new motor driven machines cut and thresh wheat, with wares tested in Wichita and Hutchinson and farms near Inman showing harvests completed without horses except for wagon movement.
Ralph Faxon reports from Reno to Santa Fe Trail supporters that counties along Kansas are largely approving the push to designate the trail as an official county road. Some eastern counties have not fixed the exact route, pending local action.
In Greeley Colorado J W Crone operates a garden devoted to breeding toads and garden crops. He has caught hundreds of toads and placed them on his property claiming they are the worst enemies of the fly in the area.
Extensive frauds against the government involve undervalued lace imports from Syria, causing the Treasury Department losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past decade.
Guthrie Oklahoma reports an estimated 1 900 000 bales of cotton the largest in state history. Continued hot winds could cut yields though fields are well cultivated weed free and moisture scarce. At 12 cents a pound the crop would be worth 60 million dollars for Oklahoma farmers.
President Joseph Smith of the Mormon church and Utah Idaho Sugar company testified in the house sugar trust investigation. He disclosed owning about 5,000 shares personally and 49,815 as church trustee. The church joined the company when subscribers defaulted and the plant remained incomplete. The stock yields 7 percent dividends.
In Vandalia Illinois Miss Hazel Schmidt awoke after seventy days of near continuous sleep and talked with her family but soon became sleepy and lapsed back into unconsciousness. She now suffers paroxysms of pain as two attendants hold her in bed and doctors say recovery is unlikely.
A Smithville Missouri meeting of the Smithville Horse Show and Fair association authorized a committee to purchase grounds for the annual show. The new association will be incorporated with a capital of 20000 dollars.
The store and postoffice at Bernal on the Missouri Pacific railroad south of Hutchinson, Kansas, burned with a loss of about $2,000. A small amount of mail was destroyed.
A federal grand jury in New York prepares a report on suspected conspiracy to fix steel prices and production. Expected indictments target United States Steel Corp and affiliated firms, with high level financial officials named.
Ruth Newton nine died while saving two younger children from a Missouri Kansas Texas train in Chanute Kansas. She and four siblings went to bring home the family cow from pasture. A freight train shivered on the crossing and the engine struck the cars trapping Ruth who pushed the others clear then was caught.
J N Dolley state bank commissioner has organized a secret service bureau to protect Kansas banks. The plan calls for three bureau members with two on duty in the field at all times. In case of a robbery the first train to the scene will carry the agents to the location.
To Save Topeka general manager of the Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railroad orders trainmen not to permit passengers to store heavy suitcases in hatracks above heads on passenger trains. A separate Kansas railroad faces a $5000 damage suit from a Wichita area passenger injury caused by a heavy suitcase falling from a hatrack.
Topeka industrial institute plans a $6000 building east of the city. The project depends on $1000 in local contributions while a former Kansan now in California donates $5000 toward the fund.
Federal Judge Ralph B. Campbell rules that lands inherited by full blood Indian heirs from deceased allottees may be transferred without approval from the Secretary of the Interior. The decision centers on lands in Muskogee Oklahoma and affects Indian property rights.
State highway engineer Gearhart will send an engineer to Lansing to review the Leavenworth Kansas City boulevard route and smooth seven miles between Lansing and Piper station. Warden Codding plans to start convict labor soon on the two mile river boulevard connection.
Two year old Claude Latimer fell into a cistern while playing on the lid. His mother used a rake to rescue him, pulling him from the water with a milk bucket in each hand, averting serious harm.
In an interview Mr W J White head of Canadian immigration offices in the United States says Western Canada Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta show universal reports of good crops for wheat oats and barley with a large increase in acreage. Prospects of 200 000 000 bushels of wheat and land values rising from 15 20 to 20 25 per acre are noted. Emigration is at record levels with land near railways favored and local offices expanding.
A fragmented line in a historical newspaper reflects a man paying a price to join the political process in Ira. The remark hints at costs and access in a populist observation about a republic.
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