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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1926
Page
3
A brittle exchange reveals a banker's daughter marveling at a large stock gift for a wedding present. The banker grumbles that the gift could fund a husband a divorce a gun and eventual trial and acquittal, hinting at dire motives behind the shares.
Water supply plans for Jerusalem face delays due to ancient vested rights to local springs and wells. The historic rights near the holy city and concessions held by the Greek Mavramatis complicate supplying enough water until the new system is built.
Betty reveals JT witnessed Bob proposing, prompting a humorous exchange about the moment. The brief dialogue hints at a social scene where a proposal becomes the talk of the group.
In Pierre South Dakota discarded automobiles are used to stabilize river banks along the Missouri river. Car frames stacked along eroding banks resist water and stop land loss better than logs or debris, with several score cars already in place to protect farmland amid spring rises.
A jellyfish invasion off Cros-de-Cagnes near Nice threatens the fishing village with uninhabitable conditions as millions of jellies swarm the bay. Dead fish pile on the beaches nightly and local authorities struggle to remove and burn the rotting remains.
The Dillon, Read & Co. draft for 146 million dollars to Dodge Bros. is now in Yarran Zerbe’s money collection on view at Chase National Bank New York. Zerbe began collecting money at age ten and built a successful business from his hobby. The text notes linen value rising due to wartime and includes an unrelated Red Cross Ball Blue advertisement.
Mother Sunflower teaches the Sunflower children that they are part of a vast family of flowers. She explains heads are made of many little flowers, notes visitors and the porch lady with white attire, and praises the large network of relatives including Chrysanthemums and Dahlias.
Quote captures a man recounting his wife’s reaction to his campaign. He notes opponents devised harsher remarks than his wife could. The Cincinnati Inquirer records the exchange as a local anecdote about political life.
A brief workplace exchange recalls a moment when the boss interrupted, while the stenographer jokes about a remembered tickling episode. The line hints at a personal dynamic shaping office humor and tension.
An old medical pamphlet argues against frequent purges for seniors. Dr. W. B. Caldwell promotes Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative that eases bowel movements without griping, claiming it strengthens regularity and is harmless. suitable for those over fifty to use at home.
A hotel stenographer teases the house detective Kelly about thinking and gender dynamics. He argues women keep men talking while thinking is avoided, sparking a sharp exchange on alimony matrimony and male pride in a McNaught Syndicate dialogue.
A garbled dialogue shows a patient asking about cure and fee in a brief medical vignette, suggesting a threatened heart failure diagnosis and a physician’s response. The text is incomplete but implies a consultation and evaluation.
In 1943 at the Zoological Gardens visiting hour, two aged animals in a guarded enclosure drew attention. Onlookers described them as rare, valuable creatures, thirty years old, captured in 1920 on Milwaukee streets, misidentified by observers as flying horses. A keeper clarified they are malt-fed horses.
A narrative from Chick Evans reflecting on turning twenty one in 1911 and a life path from golf championships to a Chicago bond career and writing. He recalls family pressure, moving from Northwestern to work in bond houses, later joining A C Allyn, and his ambitions as a golfer, bond salesman, and writer.
Kansas faces 5.641 million dollars in road and bridge work under way with 206 miles of new highway and 60 bridges contracted in the first five months of the year. The state highway commission reports total highway construction at 432 miles and ninety seven bridges under contract as of June 1.
The piece traces how “cross” came to describe ill temper from a pictorial cross sign of opposition. It links sulking or anger to crossing lines and mentions the old phrase don’t cross him as a metaphor for dispute. Jamaica is cited talking about banana production.
A clipped quote notes a husband tied to an apron string and unlikely to see his wife often, illustrating strained domestic relations in a brief, oblique observance.
Early threshing data from 24 Kansas counties show higher per acre yields than June forecasts and point to a total harvest near 150 million bushels, about 14 million above official June 1 estimates. Rain aided yields, especially in the southern portion.
St John F Stewart was killed and Darrison Keeler of Oklahoma City and J D Walker of Mount Juda Ark were seriously hurt when Stewarts car collided with a train at a crossing east of here. They had just finished harvesting and were en route to Larned. Pittsburg coroner's jury finds Roy Atkinson justified in killing his stepfather John Buffington in self defense at Kirkwood on June 26.
Governor Ben Paulen dedicated Ottawa Kansas new $125000 bridge over the Marias Des Cygnes River as fifteen thousand spectators witnessed the ceremony.
W. J. Jones, president of Baxter Machine Works in Baxter Springs, Kansas, is believed fatally injured after a motor crash on Mission Road west of Girard. He is reported to be in a hospital in Girard.
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