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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
3
A collage of aphorisms on health, marriage, suffrage, gender, and social norms. The piece satirizes everyday behavior, from gossiping heirs to the boss in the house, and mocks public discourse about fashion and propriety.
A rustic meditation contrasts a tranquil brook and crawdads with the burdens of credit. The speaker prefers cash transactions to avoid the sting of bills and imagined fish tales, urging a straightforward, unruffled approach to finances.
A reader from Howard Kansas cites a home remedy for snake bites. The method uses a beaten egg thinned with gun powder to spread on a cloth and applied to the wound, followed by whiskey and liniment doses.
In a tense salon scene Caroline Mitford jeers at two officers kept home by war and urges them to join the front lines. The men, humiliated, retreat as the room gapes while Lieutenant Foray calls for the commissary general’s office.
A tense scene unfolds with Foray handing an injunction to a man while a startled Caroline appears at the room's far end, heightening suspense as the moment ends with a To Be Continued.
A summary of local events reports the W. W. class of the 8.8. held its meeting at the teacher’s home and formed a Y P B for youths 14 to 25 with Edna Carpenter as president. Rev. Henslee preached at the chapel, and multiple residents are noted for farm and social happenings including grain stacking, threshing, visits, and travel to Kansas City and surrounding areas.
The county commissioners completed July's regular session and adopted a move from quarterly to monthly meetings. Pastor Rev. A S Brown preached at Agenda Sunday. Local residents Ellis Jones and family, Ervin Hall, Miss Ethel Stafford, Tom Arbuthnot, and Alexander Glenn visited or worked in the area. Ernest Wood and Andrew Glenn are among wheat producers, with yields around 40 to 41 bushels per acre. A Norwegian sister of J C Ingebretsen planned to settle in Norway township after eight years in Kansas City.
For sale by M. A. Preble details eastbound and westbound passenger trains with numbers and times including No. 28 passenger at 9:15 a.m. No. 6 don t stop at 10:44 a.m. No. 71 at 2:15 a.m. No. 352 Jersey at 5:58 p.m. No. 40 flag at 2:32 p.m. Westbound No. 27 don t stop at 7:18 p.m. No. 7 passenger at 3:41 a.m. No. 711 local passenger and No. 83 local freight mentioned.
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