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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1927
Page
4
The Mutual Benefit club met June 30 with Mrs Florence Goodwin hosting and fifteen members present. Reports cover visits, harvest progress, and local travel. Several residents attend gatherings, and a car accident patient recovery is noted along with road grading and harvest activity in Union area.
A column cites The Forecast warning that dishwashing habits spread bacteria and urges a new method: air dry dishes in a wire rack, boil the dish mop, and wash with hot water and soap. It also notes related horse care and July August soil cultivation guidance and Kansas crop notes.
August Rasmussen of Scandia visits Belleville with family for business and friends. Nor-way township resident A J Kelly and kin spend Saturday in the county seat. Various locals travel, visit hospitals, and attend church events. Major H N Boyd recalls Civil War service and a long newspaper career.
The article notes mercury as an element found with cinnabar and mainly derived from ore. It was used to extract gold and silver, to manufacture fulminates for explosives, drugs, electrical appliances, and scientific instruments such as thermometers and barometers, and for vermilion pigment. Mercury appears in California and Colorado.
W E Grimes of the agricultural economics department notes high grade wheat may not fetch its full value. K 5 A C Truck hauling rates are described as reasonable by Russell Moe who can be reached at phone 179.
The early wholesale grocery business arose from pepperers and spicers in London by 1180. The term grocer appears in 1310 in London records. Guilds formed over the Middle Ages, and the Grocers' Company of London was founded in 1845, after which trade grew rapidly.
A thermometer left at 103 degrees after being exposed to air at 108 degrees reads higher than the patient’s true 100 degree temperature. Hospitals and physicians guard against this known error to ensure accurate measurements.
At a conference on Olympus a thrift drive for the immortal gods was approved with broad support. One deity, Jupiter Pluvius, stood alone in dissent saying he sees no sense in saving for a rainy day. Reporters later interviewed him as the Kansas City Times laments subscriptions.
Mrs. W. S. English and her children finish a visit with relatives at Lucerne and return home on Wednesday. The first wheat is expected to market here at about $1.20 per bushel.
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