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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
4
Riverside Park will open for the warm season on April 1 marking its fourth year of operation. The grounds offer camping water cream milk and meals at the house. Admission changes to 10 cents per adult with children under 12 admitted free.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine with a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh cases. It claims thirty five years of use, blood purification, and healing of diseased mucous surfaces, urging immediate use and inviting testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
A Thanksgiving auction offered the Shakespeare hotel in Stratford-on-Avon, a fourteenth century landmark long a hub for American and international visitors. The town hosts sites tied to Shakespeare including Shottery, Shakespeare Memorial Theater, and his birthplace, with the Harvards connected via nearby properties.
France orders visitors to pay for entry to Louvre and Luxembourg galleries. The Venus de Nile, Mona Lisa, and other famed works will require payment as all treasures are grouped under one combined admission. Authorities say the museums will earn their keep through these fees.
Swedish lumbermen study cross Pacific rafting from Gothenburg to Europe. Larger square timber rafts, called rafanutes, have been towed from Sweden to Great Britain. The Ocean Rafanute Syndicate of London sends William Olyson of Stockholm to assess adapting the method for British Columbia timber exports. Projections claim British Columbia forests could supply 15 to 20 million feet per raft.
In 1871 Baron Rothschild advised buying French rentes when prices were low, saying you could buy them cheaply at 63 as Paris burned in street violence. Twenty five years later, in 1896, those bonds traded at 105 and were viewed as a top investment.
A flier near Des Moines reported ribbons of smoke from deserted regions and found autos hidden in brush. When an airman and companion landed, four men tended a copper still fueled by corn from a wagon, Popular Mechanics Magazine notes.
A Birmingham Age-Herald item tells of a meek man delaying his purchase as a floorwalker directs him to the men's wear, noting a wife’s influence and a preacher’s stiff collar worn for twenty years. The scene plays out in a shop during a matrimonial moment.
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