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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
3
A visitor complimented local butcher shops for the sanitation of their facilities during a statewide tour. He praised the boys working in the butcher shops here for maintaining the most sanitary place he encountered on the trip.
Base ball will be played at Scandia Park on Friday June 21 between Norway and Scandia. Scandia won the prior meeting 4 to 3 and the gate receipts go to the winner. Admission 25 cents and ladies free. Also note Scandia Tennis Club action at Belleville with close matches and darkness stopping the final set.
A sequence of social notes records Monday rain and Sunday visits across the area. Residents including Jennie Thompson, Mrs. Mollie Sothers of Riverton, Esther Salyard, Mable Carlson, Ednar Hobson, Leslie Nichols and families, and others are noted visiting relatives or staying with friends at various homes and farms.
Edward Williams visited D. P. Johnson home on Sunday. Gene Nelson and his wife from the Chapel neighborhood called in Union Sunday. Ed Stockwick and Leman Johnson visited in Union Friday. Tra Carey Fred Walker and Charlie Carey of Freedom went camping at the river Monday and returned next morning through rain and mud with wagon load of fish. L M and EK L Johnson of Belleville and Earnie Noble of Union left for Colorado Monday to spend about three months hunting and fishing. George Coughman and wife and D P Johnson and wife visited JR Bowersox Friday.
Dr Halsomy eye ear nose throat surgeon will be at Dr Henrys office in Scandia on Friday June 21. Spectacles fitted. Examinations free.
A Cedar Grove man credits Electric Bitters with curing stomach liver and kidney troubles after three bottles. The letter says the first bottle brought relief and the full course completed the cure, touting the remedy as guaranteed best on earth and available from druggists for 50 cents.
A garbled notice cites a person at 107 St. Louis St Patlas who claims in the past year they became acquainted with a doctor’s new pills and praise their efficacy. The fragmented OCR mentions sales near a ripe location and a health claim phrased with dubious details.
An experienced diver reports finding a 200 foot clipper hull buried in Port Phillip bay. Seaweed 50 feet high fills the interior, turning the hull into a vast forcing frame. No wreck records exist. the vessel is thought to date to early gold discoveries. The hull will be dynamited to access the interior.
A columnist urges local merchants to rival mail order houses with strong in newspaper ads. He notes mail order firms spend heavily to attract trade and urges merchants to clearly describe and price every item, telling their story engagingly in community columns.
The Tarpon Springs News reports the sponge industry increasingly uses diving to harvest sponges. Many vessels switch from hooking to the diving method. Greeks were sought for expertise, but locals are rapidly becoming proficient. With practice and good health, divers can reach 30 to 60 feet of water.
A fragmented scene features a debate on Alexander and grief with lines about hero worship and valor. The dialogue cites 'Alexander wept because there were no more' and contrasts devotion to conquest with a critic's note on limited knowledge of geography.
A night train passenger recalls trying to remember the name of a sleeping car, describing restless hours and a grim joke about Nightmare and sleep. The fragment hints at memory strain during nocturnal journeys and the uneasy ambience of late travel.
Newspaper clippings recount a racially tinged tale of three youths and a money bet, a humorous aside about saints and a pope, and a Brown County incident where George Israel confronts Oscar Ault over a dog and a timber wolf found after a sheep predation. Local correspondence notes wolf tracks near Johnson County farms and alarm among farmers.
A Connecticut tramp recounts waking to a farmhouse blaze, alarmed residents, and a ladder rescue. The farmer, noting the tramp’s haystack lodging, jokes about repaying by milk with cream skimmed for pigs, then offers a small settlement.
A reading session on Constantine sparks inference about his vast power and possible isolation. Mrs Ultry-Mural frames the point, suggesting the emperor may have lived in a remote suburb or lacked despotic power. An unrelated quarrel between Doyle and Yelvrt erupts as Doyle knocks him down and vows to force civility.
Peter Corntons notes a rainy day cash idea likening it to a lasting umbrella. He warns that others may steal the money when showers begin, reflecting caution about hoarding funds.
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