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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
3
Murray and Silver guide a shipboard plan as they assess trust and crew loyalties. Long John and the lookout report wary signs while preparations for a bold escape unfold. The captain weighs the crew's reliability and the seeds of dissension amid a dangerous voyage.
Murray and his companions reach the Royal James to meet Captain Flint aboard the Walrus as Ben Gunn serves rum and chocolate. The crew blends a mix of wary loyalties while Murray tests Flint's claim to leadership and the crew's discipline before sailing.
Narrator Robert Ormerod recounts encounters with pirate Captain Rip-Rap and his great-uncle Andrew Murray aboard the Royal James. Darby McGraw arrives with news of the notorious pirate’s arrival as Murray vows to seize Robert. Robert also meets John Silver and a Spanish frigate captain’s daughter, while Pew the blind sailor unsettles him.
The coast and geodetic survey explain that magnets have two magnetic poles. A suspended magnet aligns with Earth’s magnetism, showing the north-seeking pole points north. Like poles repel and unlike poles attract, and the Earth behaves as a permanent magnet with its own magnetic North.
A fragment notes a ruin with an ornamental frieze and suggests it may be an ancient cold storage facility. The dialogue hints at a possible Roman site visited by tourists and a companion’s speculation about its function.
The report notes over ninety percent of Haitians possibly lack reliable electricity as approximately two million people struggle with access to basic household appliances amid ongoing hardship and infrastructure damage.
Kansas Fish and Game Commission picks two sites for parks and game preserves after evaluating 212 locations. One near South Mound in Neosho County covers 169 acres with 100 acres water, to be donated by Labette and Neosho counties. The second site six miles north of Pittsburg sits on an old coal mine, spans 400 acres with 169 acres of water, currently stocked in parts.
Topeka reports the Hutchinson Irrigation Association has been chartered with $10 000 capital. Incorporators Bruce King J B Coe BE W Rice R L Gardner and C W Oswald all of Hutchinson organize to conduct irrigation experiments in Reno County and the Arkansas Valley.
The Lawrence Rotary Club hosted about forty five University of Kansas students recently elected to Phi Beta Kappa or Sigma Xi for a luncheon on May 24 acknowledging scholastic achievement alongside athletic honors.
Kansas City reports Dr. Edward Parks Hall died recently at 124 West Thirty third street. His will directs income from a $75 000 estate to aid indigent students in the University of Kansas medical school.
In Hugoton, 19 year old Harry W Madden drowned after a cramp left him unable to reach help. Other swimmers tried to assist but could not save him. The incident occurred during a swimming outing on the Cottonwood river in Emporia area.
Roy L. Bone Kansas Bank Commissioner addressed the Kansas Bankers Association urging the consolidation of many smaller Kansas banks to strengthen the general banking business.
Independent reports include Treva Hyler 15 dies from gasoline iron explosion near Wayside school. Rev Charles W Rush killed in rock crusher incident at Fort Scott. Mrs George Treat fatally burned near Liberal leaving husband and five children. Clyde Hatten 14 drowns in Arkansas River near Kate. Linn County delays LaCygne-Pleasanton road project. Lawrence population 13,882 up 1,481 since last year.
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