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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
3
Mrs. Pearl Hill of Knoxville Tennessee credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending three years of female trouble and illness. She also used Liver Pills and Sanative Wash and now reports good appetite strength and work capacity. The letter invites others to try the remedy.
An advertisement claims Peterson's Ointment cured 61 leg ulcers for Wm. J. Nichol of Rochester. It sells for 60 cents with money back if not best ever used and is touted for burns sunburn itching eczema and piles.
A witty exchange notes a woman dyed her hair black to echo a crow’s feet remark. The comment plays on appearance and humor in a light social moment.
A vintage advertisement extols Boschee's Syrup as a remedy for coughs bronchitis colds throat irritation and lung troubles. It cites influenza deaths and claims the product helps sleep and morning expectoration while noting its American origin and widespread home use.
An advertisement touts pure blood as essential to health and claims Garfield Team can cleanse the system and eradicate disease. It also advises that men should not enter marriage unless they are good listeners.
Kansas State Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions supporting a $25 000 bureau for publicity and immigration linked to agriculture, a good roads amendment, and the Curtis bill boosting road funds to 400 million dollars. Telegrams urged defeating the Grenna wheat price bill. Harry I Fox was re elected president with officers and directors named from Wichita Topeka Atchison Lawrence Parsons and others.
The old Catholic Mission built in the 1830s by Jesuit Fathers Van Quickenborne and Hocken at Kickapoo, south of Atchison, is being demolished on C. A. Spencer’s farm to make way for a modern farmhouse. The log structure once sparked Kansas Catholicism and aided the St. Marys college roots.
Mrs. A J Clemmens long resident of Olathe since 1858 has died at age 86. The obituary notes her late husband served as Johnson county sheriff years ago. In other news John H Crawford Kansas labor commissioner urged reeducation of injured Kansas industry workers at the Kansas Chamber of Commerce proposing Pittsburg state manual training normal school as the training center.
The Ottawa board of education announced salary boosts for teachers next year ranging from 2 to 33 percent. The move will raise the minimum monthly wage to over $100, signaling a notable change in pay scales for educators.
Charles J. Dobbs sold 169 acres west of Junction City to William Geist for 150 dollars per acre, setting a record price for upland farm ground in the area.
A morning blaze at Wichita city zoo caused extensive damage as animals perished and property burned. The fire, believed started by a fur furnace, razed buildings and sparked an investigation into its cause and insured losses of about $15,000.
The Rock Island passenger operation at Lawrence stopped when the line reverted to private management. An agreement had allowed Rock Island to use Union Pacific tracks between Kansas City and Topeka, a clause later set aside under government ownership. A B Olson of Lavenburg elected president of the Kansas Retail Grocers Association succeeding A G Johnson of Salina who resigns to leave for Texas.
A conference between A. R. Hamilton and T. G. Strickler led to a plan to raise intermediate line pressure from ten to fifteen pounds in normal weather and up to twenty pounds in spring cold. Wichita Natural Gas faces losses, but service improves in milder days. winter shortages may persist.
A newspaper note describes northern geese migrating south as a familiar sign of spring in the eastern United States. It recounts a New Zealand society introducing Canadian geese to the southern hemisphere, growing from 12 pairs to a flock of 300, with new blood from an import of 10 pairs.
The speaker notes a wife’s ability to reveal selfperception, saying a wife admirably fills the gift to see ourselves as others see us. A humorous anecdote follows where a man tells his wife she won’t control a new dog, and she retorts he was just as troublesome at first.
A report notes about 3 424 spoken languages and dialects globally with the United States listing 1 624. The figures highlight linguistic variety and regional differences across nations and communities.
Amherst president cites a professor driven to manual labor amid changed finances. He recalls a bricklayer tryout tale where a red faced foreman jests the candidate could start as an architect and work up, illustrating scoring shifts in employment.
A speaker rails at idle days and the futility of dreams as he claims to shovel coal in a dream. He asserts that money invested in happiness helps keep the tombstone man out of business, implying a view that wealth buys vitality and defends against death.
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