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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1908
Page
1
The piece notes complaints about the rule that married women are “Mrs.” and unmarried women “Miss.” It recalls that a boy becomes “Mr.” with time, while a girl remains “Miss” until marriage. It cites calls for universal “Mrs.” after age 40, and ends with a blunt thought on the continuing struggle of aging women.
The New York Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin inviting high school students to apply for summer work. Boys would assist on farms with tasks like planting and gathering crops, while girls would serve as clerks and light resort duties. Already over 2,500 city applicants seek these roles.
The Sacred College recounts a gold coin found in 1898 during Acqui church foundations. It is the sole known Innocent IX era coin. Acqui diocese could not pay an architect, gave him the coin to settle his bill, and later clergy reclaimed $1,200 to buy it and present it to the pope. The coin completes the Vatican collection of popes issued coins.
William Waldorf Astor donated the captured Chesapeake flag to the United Service Museum after initial hopes for its return to the US faded. As an American-born naturalized British citizen, Astor faced criticism from some American newspapers for not bidding on the flag alongside other buyers. The episode is seen as unlikely to affect international relations or inflame patriotism.
A blast and blaze at Morris & Co's Kansas City packing plant along the Kaw floodplain killed watchman Jacob Winey and fatally injured Frank Nelson, with four others hurt. The fire damaged sausage, smoke house, and cold storage buildings, destroying two five story blocks and part of a third. Total loss estimates range from 150000 to 240000 including machinery and stock. insurance on the buildings stands at 200000. The plant, rebuilt in 1905, was set to be rebuilt after the disaster.
The War Department released a message in Washington D C stating the president and Secretary Taft notified Panama that elections in the republic must be conducted fairly. The disclosure suggested possible intervention by the United States using force if needed to ensure compliance.
A federal court jury in Rochester New York found guilty in the Standard Oil case. The indictment had 40 counts each relating to a car of oil with maximum fines of 20000 dollars per count, totaling 800000 dollars if all counts are convicted.
Capt Edward Rabey commander of a Staten Island quarantine steamer died in a Staten Island sanitarium on Wednesday from hydrophobia following a dog bite.
Albuquerque New Mexico. The Continental Oil company plant burned Friday except for the office building. Nearly 100000 gallons of coal oil gasoline and naphtha were destroyed.
Los Angeles officials and Kansas City post office inspectors acknowledge a missing registered mail pouch on a route to New York last Saturday night. Private sources say the package contained at least $50,000 in currency plus numerous money orders and valuables. no method of robbery is confirmed.
The Republican National Committee finished seven days of hearings settling 219 contested seats. Taft secured 216 of these, Foraker 3. With 3887 instructed delegates already, Taft is poised to reach 603 on the temporary roll call, excluding additional endorsements or pledges.
State board of equalization increased Western Union property value from just over $300,000 to $1,907,770.50 and fixed Postal Telegraph at $48,240, nearly double the company’s own estimate. The announcement came from State Auditor M. Trapp on Friday in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
In Fall River Massachusetts the bodies of Joseph and Andre Beaudry were found in a trunk after a late search. The children aged 15 and another sibling reportedly hid in the trunk to avoid going to school. The trunk features a spring lock aiding the concealment.
Guthrie Oklahoma. Vernon W. Whiting of Enid carries the old 34 star flag to Chicago for display at the Republican national convention. The banner once waved during the 1860 Chicago gathering that nominated Abraham Lincoln for president.
New York Senator Page, a political manager for Gov. Hughes, states clearly that the New York governor would not accept the vice presidential nomination under any condition and would not run if nominated.
Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor Willson pardons Caleb Powers and James Howard, ending a famed state case surrounding the Goebel murder. Powers, secretary of state during the shooting, faced four trials with two death sentences, then appeals and petitions prompting a statewide push for clemency.
New York reports the death of Tom Wiggins known as Blind Tom a famed negro musician who lived in Hoboken New Jersey in retirement. Born near Columbus Georgia about 1850 he was blind and intellectually limited yet became a renowned pianist who toured the United States and Europe after gaining early fame in New York.
A Spaniard in a special coach with Italian immigrants bound for St Louis stabbed two men and wounded another on a westbound Wabash train arriving in Fort Wayne Indiana. He leaped from the car window and escaped. All victims were immigrants taken on at Detroit.
Henry Phipps of Pittsburgh and New York arranged a large gift to Johns Hopkins Hospital and University for founding a psychiatric clinic modeled on European institutions. The announcement came Friday night by Dr. Wr. H. Welsh. The gift was made just before sailing for Europe.
Letters urging Secretary Taft to appoint Frank H. Hitchcock as manager of his campaign for the presidency were mailed Sunday by more than half of the current Republican national committee members.
It was announced at the Taft headquarters that United States Senator William Warner of Missouri will be chosen chairman of the convention committee to notify the presidential nominee of his selection by the convention.
Red river levees broke in two places below Monela Sunday with the worst breach about 800 feet wide and water depths from 16 to 20 feet. The Monela breaks lie within about 30 miles of where the Red river enters the Mississippi river.
Northern New Jersey boards publish a homemade remedy from Washington papers urging onions minced and heated in rye meal paste applied in hot poultices to the chest to treat pneumonia. The claim: three to four applications suffice and results include prompt perspiration and recovery, attributed to a renowned New England physician.
The term internal revenue is limited to revenues collected by the internal revenue bureau of the treasury. It does not include all revenues from internal sources such as sale of public lands patent fees or postal service revenues.
The report recalls the discovery along Java’s Bengawan river of skull thigh bone and two molars by Dr Dubois. Scientists concluded the remains formed an animal intermediate between apes and humans, named Pithecanthropus Erectus.
A Minnesota schoolteacher describes using Postum to quit coffee. She cites nervous prostration from coffee, her conversion after boiling Postum with cream, and lasting health benefits including steady nerves and better sleep. The Postum Co. promotes its product with the claim theres a reason.
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