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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1909
Page
7
A collage of jokes and scenes includes a Briton on a steamer warned about higher US prices, a quarrel ending with a wife inviting her mother, and humor on starch and domestic life. It also notes Defiance Starch’s strength and a satire about money not growing on trees with a tease about Garfield Tea for constipation.
A Victorian humor fragment mentions tutoring six men in a profitable course. It ties colds to pneumonia and suggests Lampoon style satire. The aside notes general health cures and a mix of brief ad styled lines.
The Rev. Father Erasin Ansion rector of St Stanislaus parish was shot to death by three masked men in his rectory early Wednesday. Housekeeper Miss Antonia Sewrzytska was wounded in the abdomen while trying to intervene. Authorities consider possible church dispute and an anarchist or Black Hand plot.
A Missouri conference of executive traffic officials meets Thursday to decide on restoring passenger rates. General passenger agents favor full restoration to the chief traffic executives as soon as possible. Local tariffs could be posted next day, with some lines pushing two and a half cents per mile for mail lines and three cents for branches to deter further appeals to the U S Supreme Court.
A southbound express on the Arkansas Louisiana Gulf line was railed 20 miles north of Monroe after a switch was thrown and spiked while the signal showed white. Engineer C N McDaniel was killed instantly and fireman J B Gowan was badly injured. No passengers were hurt. The train was en route from Little Rock to Monroe traveling at a high speed.
The interior department orders about 3,000,000 acres along Wyoming eastern border opened to settlers. Applicants may take 160 or 320 acres, with no irrigation possible and only dry farming. Those with 320 acres must attempt cultivation. 160-acre holders have no such requirement. The move is an experimental opening.
After a preliminary canvass on Wednesday house insurgents gained hope as three wary members pledged to stand firm in the rules fight. Representative Murdock of Kansas, a key insurgent, said they would likely muster enough votes Monday to push a revision.
Lieut Arnold of the Belgian army, once denounced by Missionaries for burning and pillaging villages and killings in the Congo, was found guilty of a series of similar charges and sentenced to twelve years in prison.
Mrs Nancy Wilson known as Mrs Staffi a noted woman prisoner died of pneumonia in a cell in the women's ward at the Kansas penitentiary Leavenworth She was 79 and serving a 21 year sentence for a warden attack at Galena.
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