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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
1
A Scandia Journal sketch echoes a Chicago tale showing how personal habits and refined manner affect sales and ministry. A crude salesman lost clients. a rude minister risked rejection by refined relatives. The piece argues formal manners are learned at home and essential to opportunity.
A new study called political geography is added to American college curricula. It links geography with political and social institutions, explaining how countries formed and why borders and governance shifted amid recent global events. The course covers Britain France Norway Sweden Russia and Japan with current issues such as church state separation and Balkan tensions.
The text argues that a self confident figure who deems themselves sufficient for all tasks often undermines success. It contrasts the overdoer who aims high with those who doubt others and struggle to meet aims, noting the danger of inflated self reliance in employment and public roles.
Norway mourns Henrik Ibsen founder of modern drama. He died after a seizure at 2:30 p m with his son Sigurd Ibsen and wife at his side. King Haakon sends condolences and the nation declares grief as theatres close. His funeral is expected to be a state function. In Washington Senator Burton proposes resigning if the senate delays action on his motion for a new trial. Public reaction among senators is mixed as Burrows notes the supreme court will likely deny relief.
In Jefferson City Missouri a supreme court ruling sets the execution date for Agnes Myers and Frank Hottman for the murder of Clarence Myers in Kansas City on May 11, 1904. The governor may grant a respite before the Friday, June 29 hanging.
A resolution adopted by the annual conference of the Structural Building Trades Alliance of America calls on local unions to urge members to abstain from alcohol to reduce accidents. The alliance also endorses the congressional pill proposing removal of duty on crude alcohol.
A tornado hit Whiting Iowa, 36 miles south of Sioux City, at 6 pm Friday, leveling a house and barn. The residents escaped injuries by taking refuge in a cellar. The storm lifted after the wrecked premises and a similar untold incident happened on the same site three years earlier.
Colorado news brief reports Telluride and San Miguel county blanketed by 18 inches of new snow. A rockslide 200 feet long blocked the railroad ten miles above Telluride on Thursday evening, delaying train traffic for several days.
Washington announces the opening of one million acres of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana. A registration of applicants will be held at Miles City and Billings Montana and Sheridan Wyoming from June 14 through June 28. Drawings will be held in Billings starting July 2.
Colorado Springs reports Pike’s Peak blanketed by snow after three days of storms in the western mountains. The foothills are bare from spring foliage, making the contrast striking for this time of year.
In London Mrs Dora Montefiore, leader of the woman suffrage movement, barricaded herself at her Hammersmith home at 24 to protest taxation without representation. She faced tax collectors and sheriff's officers and appeared at an upper window during the day to declaim for woman suffrage before a watching crowd.
Washington D.C. senate committee on privileges and elections adjourned Friday without action on the Smoot case. Absent members prevented any vote.
In Cleveland Standard Oil faces an interstate commerce inquiry with charges that its rivals' telegrams are copied and sent to 26 Broadway. Allegations include tracking of 196000 miles of line to relay messages from independents and pilfered telegrams containing sensitive political information.
Washington D C The free alcohol bill passed the senate after committee report and goes to conference after house passage last month. Senators Aldrich McCumber Allison weigh impacts on wood alcohol makers consumers revenue and fuel use with the bill extending its effective date and potentially making denatured alcohol cheaper than gasoline for automotive and other fuel uses.
Barney Oldfield set a world automibile record for fifty miles at the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders track in Lexington. He completed the distance in 1 hour 13 minutes 2 seconds, beating his own prior mark of 1 hour 16 minutes 20 seconds. Oldfield also won the Blue Grass Sweepstakes at five miles and the one mile race.
The Democratic convention met here Tuesday afternoon. Walter W. Graves was nominated for the supreme court short term on the first ballot. A motion to make the nomination unanimous followed. A. M. Woodson of St. Joseph was nominated for the long term with virtually no opposition.
Mrs Ellen P Tootle wife of J J Tootle a St Joseph banker was granted a divorce by Judge Henry M Ramey in the circuit court late Thursday afternoon Desertion and indignities are charged The Cloverly Farm mansion will be awarded to the wife and she receives 100000 in cash
Kansas City Missouri reports an appeal will be filed with the United States Supreme Court for a writ of error in the case of Mrs Agnes Myers who was sentenced by the Missouri Supreme Court to be hanged June 30 Motions for a rehearing of both the Myers and the Hoffman cases will be filed in the state supreme court soon.
Inter state Commissioners Prouty and Clements hear from nine teen witnesses in Cleveland on Friday. Geo L Lane former Standard Oil employee described efforts to crush independent oil peddlers across Northern Ohio using extreme methods. Lane named locations including Youngstown Canton Girard Warren Ravenna Massillon Mansfield Elyria Oberlin and others. Miss Elizabeth Protzman testified that draymen supplied rival oil shipment details to the Cleveland office for record and action.
Col William F Switzler, famed as the Nestor of Missouri Journalism, died in Columbia at 3 30 am after a weeklong illness. He authored histories of Missouri and Boone County and a University of Missouri history, with his latest work nearly complete. He leaves three children and had continued public writing until illness.
The Swedish cabinet advised King Oscar to dissolve the lower house after opposing votes on the suffrage bill. The king refused to dissolve the chamber, deeming it illogical, and all cabinet ministers tendered their resignations.
Omaha Nebraska Chief of Police John Briggs and former prosecuting attorney Henry C Murphy of South Omaha were arrested Thursday evening after grand jury indictments accusing them of blackmailing resort keepers in South Omaha. Both men were released on bond.
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