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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1906
Page
4
The article argues education is a public and charitable function from cradle to college. It notes enrollment figures, state guardianship of elementary instruction, and the extensive funding of universities. It highlights charitable provision, endowments, and the reliance on gifts for sustaining higher education.
A humorous note notes that an orator is someone who writes an oration while an ode writer cannot be called an odor unless the work is notably pretty pad. The remark plays on word roots and spelling.
In Kansas a woman suffragist remarks create discord while clarifying a peacock is a male bird. This stray line reflects local wartime era chatter and social tensions.
A Chicago minister issued a warning against hasty unions and urged couples to consider lasting commitments. He urged prudent choices and cautioned that rushed marriages bring social and personal consequences.
A clipped newspaper fragment notes a man who begins married life as breadwinner and discovers his wife cares only for angelic ideals. The text hints at moral warning about domestic life and temptation without full context.
A damaged excerpt from Houston Maine recounts an employer firing a costly engineer for insisting on safe boiler upkeep at little pay. The man is said to have climbed atop the boiler safety valve and suffered injuries in protest over earning a dollar a day.
San Francisco suffered a devastating quake at 5 10 a m lasting three minutes shattering thousands of buildings. Fire raged across the South of Market district destroying warehouses and homes. Martial law was declared. troops patrolled streets as crews battled flames and aid poured in from across California and the nation.
AP representative reports minimal damage near the Cliff House in San Francisco. Manager Wilkins states the historic site will incur no more than five hundred dollars in quake repairs.
Doctors from several schools laud Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for chronic stomach and catarrhal conditions. The formula includes Black Cherrybark and Golden Seal, claims pure glycerine base, and is marketed with open bottle-label transparency. A booklet of medical extracts is mailed on request from Dr. B. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
Lenders confront Borroughs over a small debt with sharp promises to remember the loan for life. The Philadelphia Ledger records a terse quarrel in which Borroughs vows to honor the debt.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent of Fairmount Tennessee credits Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills with curing her young daughter’s obstinate eczema in six weeks after failing to improve with a prominent physician. She notes the family lives twelve miles from a doctor and travel costs are high. The testimonial date is October 13 1905.
An official from the land office in Washington recounts how Dr. Whipple, long Bishop of Minnesota, planned religious services near an Indian village in a Western state. The bishop’s effects were left about the lodge, and before leaving for the village he asked the chief if it was safe. the chief answered plentifully safe, according to Harper’s Weekly.
A Chicago Record-Herald item records a brief exchange where a reporter asks Senator Aldrich about foreordination. He replies he prefers not to answer and notes he has never had occasion to ask Aldrich about it.
A garbled Detroit Free Press fragment questions exclamations about deference to a certain man. The incomplete dialogue implies social pressure or mockery but lacks clear context, names, or events to identify.
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