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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
2
The Journal is published by J.W. Plotner & Son in Scandia Kansas. It notes Second Class post office matter and an annual subscription price of 1.25 dollars.
An appeal to American citizens to buy Liberty Loan Bonds emphasizes patriotic incentives beyond financial return. Proceeds fund US military needs and allied support, with money spent in America on foods and supplies for soldiers and for allies fighting with the nation. Also includes a sample ad for Hall's Catarrh Medicine and minor notices about a found auto lens and shoe repair service.
City of Scandia Kansas enacts strict rules on possession and sale of alcoholic beverages. Sections prohibit personal possession deliveries to carriers and use, with fines from 100 to 500 dollars and up to six months imprisonment. Exceptions cover ministers and priests for communion and regulated drug wholesale operations. The ordinance clarifies carrier duties, communion wine declarations, and pharmacist and hospital exceptions. Effective upon publication June 6 1917.
Former UW professor Paul H. Nystrom argues mail order firms grow via national magazines and threaten local retailers. Excluding mail order ads from Delineator Designer and Woman's Magazine could unite 1.5 million readers and boost home buying, shifting momentum to buy at home movements. A humorous local verse lampoons false ads and high shipping costs from mail order houses.
A purchaser reads aloud from a magazine praising a low price mail order ad. The narrator places an order for a lamp, rocking chair, underwear, petticoats, oats, a Noahs Ark toy, and boots for a boy, while his wife orders items for herself and child.
A six year neighbor feud between the Browns and Robinsons over a cat ends when Brown’s servant delivers a peace note saying the cat died. Robinson responds with a sharp retort noting he had heard nothing of Mrs. Brown’s illness.
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