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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
1
A fashion authority notes that children’s dresses mirror adult styles with shortening skirts and one piece frocks. Hand embroidery, hem stitches, and pek peasant motifs are popular, with jumper suits and boleros for older girls, and varied hosiery from baby socks to silk party wear.
Shawls feature large dotted net squares with double hem borders and chiffon matching. The look suits the vogue, emphasizing delicate borders and airy fabric.
Five aphorisms from a 1926 Western Newspaper Union item share guidance: delight in beauty, frankness, and well doing while avoiding idleness, loquacity, and flippant jesting. Emphasizes cultivating good taste, manners, and humor.
A century kitchen offers salad ideas using green onions, green pepper, sour cream, mayo, lettuce, and cottage cheese with currants. It also lists combinations with apples bananas pineapple and strawberry whip, plus baked beans with sausage and Creole soup. Then it gives home hints on stains, cleaning, baking, and shelf-stable fruit blends and a fruit-nut custard pie topping.
A compact reflection on Nicodemus from the Bible figure who seeks Jesus by night yet struggles to commit. The sermon traces his early admiration, his cautious defense at Jesus’ trial, and his final act at the crucifixion, ending with a moral about heart versus symbol.
Otto Kahn, the millionaire philanthropist, denounces Bolshevik charges against the moneyed classes at a New York dinner. He likens critics to a forger who boasts about a signature while the subject’s check is no longer valid.
A sermon by Rev. Hugh Thompson Kerr of Pittsburgh was heard in North Baffin Land 2200 miles away, over 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle. An applause card relayed via telegraph from Montreal arrived four years after the letter left Pittsburgh.
Kansas Supreme Court issues a writ mandamus directing Roy L. Bone state bank commissioner to permit the Lyndon Farmers Union Bank in Osage County to begin business. Court says private banks are legal and the banking department cannot block based on lack of public necessity.
A Kansas court ruled that Roy Bieber of Elk County could not keep intoxicating liquor on his back porch without risk of disbarment. Bieber, already convicted in lower court for liquor possession, was ordered disbarred from practicing law in Kansas.
Dr Keen B Uhl s of Overland Park must serve ten to twenty five years for murder. Kansas Supreme Court affirms Reno County jury verdict convicting him of killing William E Gibbs a recluse. Gibbs died late December 1923.
Charles F. Rogers former Kansas City Star staffer and now head of the journalism department at Kansas State Agricultural College has been chosen as the new president of the Association of Agricultural College Editors. In Salina Leslie Bilyeu of Laramie Wyoming died from injuries suffered in a motor car collision. His bride survived with a broken shoulder and bruises. In Emporia Governor Paulen told 3000 summer school students at Emporia Teachers College that the teacher's responsibility to society is the greatest borne by any profession.
The City of MexicoEdward Gallagher a school teacher from Marysville Kansas is reported missing. He visited the US consulate and planned to go to the Desert of Lions tourist resort outside the city. Conditions of his whereabouts are unknown. Independence Owen Callahan 2 years old son 244 and daughter 4 burned badly when gasoline ignited as he filled car tanks in the garage at his farm home eight miles southwest of there. Injured are in a hospital.
Parsons B Fisher a noted railroad engineer and former chief engineer of the MET, died in the company hospital early this morning. The death closes a long career in railroad work and public service.
William Winlock, an elevator operator at the Federal Building, shares a philosophy of life learned from daily rides. He says his trait is courteous detachment, minding his own business for half the year and others' business the other half, a balance he treats as strict practice.
An advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as safe for fabrics and effective at whitening clothes to snow white, claiming it does not injure the fabric and is sold by all good grocers.
Experiments show four crops of wheat can be raised on a single plot in one year with electric light. Easter lilies and daffodils under 3,000 watt lamps grew from bed to bloom in four days, versus four weeks normally. Six hours after midnight proved most effective for plant stimulation.
Two friends banter about a woman who plays bridge fairly but only under scrutiny. The exchange suggests tension over whether she can win honestly when observed.
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