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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1907
Page
8
In a dim cellar Richard Cornstalk and a witty young woman evade capture after a party night. They scout exits, dodge a threatening foe, share apples, and bond as they inch toward the stairway while danger looms from a masked man with a pipe.
A tense scene unfolds as a calm inspector reveals his political mission while a candle illuminates a shadowed cellar. The narrator acknowledges fate and the looming uncertainty as they confront danger and secrecy in a bygone moment.
A banker explains why gold is shipped in bars rather than coins across the Atlantic noting bars lose less weight to abrasion and waves. He cites approximate losses: coins lose 300 dollars per million in rough seas, bars about 100 to 150 dollars per million, with large shipments saving over a thousand dollars.
A company collector recounts a flawed scheme to reclaim an unpaid bill from Jacob, using a staged wagon theft ruse. The plan backfires as the driver helps reload the goods, exposing the ruse and the collector’s risky judgment in a tale of corporate missteps.
A short fable about Arabs and the devil sharing harvest turns into a larger narrative. The verse contrasts clever peasant wit with the devil’s schemes, then shifts to a humorous first person anecdote set in a Kansas City Star workplace where a misdelivery prompts a boss’s admonition and a reloaded load.
In arid southwest districts gasoline cans are repurposed as building items. Sides are cut to form tin roofing and weather boarding, stacked cans create chimneys, and filled with sand serve as stone-like walls. Dovecotes use tiered cans as porches, tops open for entry, and handles convert cans into water buckets without grease.
Queen Wilhelmina approves the validation of noble titles and decorations after France no longer recognizes Vatican honors. The ruling prompts a costly pilgrimage to The Hague and a spike in prices for pontifical favors as Knights of the Golden Spur Holy Sepulcher Christ Gregory the Great and Pius X see increased demand.
The John A. Salzer Seed Co offers a free mammoth 148 page catalog with samples of perfect balance rations, clover and grass seeds, fodder plants and more. The firm operates over 5 000 acres and promotes grasses oats barley corn potatoes and farm seeds in America from La Crosse Wisconsin.
The record for 1906 shows nearly 7,000 lives lost and over $500 million in property destroyed by fire. The report notes U.S. losses are unmatched globally, with the San Francisco earthquake year pushing figures above the long term average of about $200 million annually.
Important to uchers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and cure remedy for infants and children, and see that it.
Munich university professor Korn has improved telegraph image transmission revealing photographs and sketches six to seven inches square can be sent from Munich to Nuremberg, a hundred miles, in 10 to 15 minutes. Also mentions Defiance Starch and the retirement of Rear Admiral Sigsbee leaving Evans and Dewey in active service.
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