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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
8
New York reports widespread price cuts in department and wholesale stores across clothing lines. Dealers expect a permanent downward trend with surpluses in stock, especially in women's wear, and silk prices to stay lower. Some predict fewer sales but higher quality goods as the aim.
Detroit city council punished nine family apartment owner Jacob Shevitz with a 100 percent increase in assessed valuation citing rent hikes from 42 to 90 dollars per month. The action targets alleged profiteering behavior by the landlord across his rental properties.
A Coeburn boy bought a barrel of whisky before enlisting, buried it, and since his discharge from the army he is $1,200 richer. Revenue officers would want details on how and to whom he sold the liquor in Bluefield West Virginia.
Professor Rice recounts a February clash near an Orinoco tributary with giant Guari bos cannibals. Firearms failed to deter them. explorers retreated after killing two or three in self defense. Mrs Rice accompanied part of the voyage with Dr Rice and geographer Chester H Ober aboard the expedition returning from Para with specimens sent to Harvard's Peabody Museum.
Chicago report on Dr. Victor J. Lespinasse experiments at Northwestern University showing a hen receiving rooster interstitial gland transplants developed comb wattles saddle feathers and spurs and strutted like a rooster. The hen now lives on a Chicago suburb farm amid dramatic animal studies. A separate Lebanon Kentucky note covers Father W J Rowlett surviving a mile ride on a wrecked engine and telling the engineer he would not bring his trash to go stop.
An upstate fox farm owner appealed to H. M. Bacon, president of the New York Fur Auction Sales, asking for mother cats to nurse silver foxes. The farmer will pay $2.50 for six weeks of care as the cubs mature to solid food.
Sarah Rector, eighteen, of the Muskogee area Oklahoma, has become the wealthiest African American girl in the United States. Her holdings in land previously deemed worthless have propelled her net worth to about one and a half million dollars.
In a living room tidy up, mother assigns tasks to Edwin Betty and baby Betty. Betty fusses, Edwin insists Betty cannot handle a middle sized task, claiming only he is fit for it. The exchange reflects sibling dynamics and a playful claim of authority.
Informal health ad promises freckle removal using Othine double strength. Apply nightly and morning, with most cases clearing in an ounce or less. Guaranteed with money back if it fails to remove freckles.
In a tense exchange Senator Sorghum rejects being labeled a favorite son noting that most such favorites have little chance to become real fighters. He compares them to teachers' pets from his school days. He speaks against the idea despite being named as a favored figure.
An old advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine and prescribed by physicians for over twenty years. It urges consumers to accept an unbroken Bayer package with proper directions for headache toothache earache neuralgia rheumatism colds and pain. It notes small 12 tablet tins cost few cents and mentions larger packages sold by druggists. The ad also notes the trade mark and the synthesis from salicylic acid ester. A separate note jokes about meeting someone who used to avoid drinking before prohibition but now drinks like a fish.
The Kansas City Star recounts a candid exchange where a candidate for alderman chides J Fuller Gloom for prematurely informing others of supposed insights. Gloom retorts that the approach is foolhardy and unnecessary.
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