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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1902
Page
6
A Grim Wit's piece notes Bannockburn's lack of tourist trappings and transport comforts. It praises the plain battlefield landscape where guides offer little drama and the land itself tells the story. A Scot laborer quips that the English make good crops, highlighting local resilience.
In Sweden archaeologists report a stone age relic: a two year old horse skull found in the Victorpsa mud near Ingelstad with a flint dagger embedded in the skull. The dagger likely dates to the neolithic period and was driven with great force, remaining fixed without outward marks.
Des Moines Leader reports O. J. Plomesen of Laverne Iowa trained a giant cochin china rooster to pull a light baby carriage in the yard. The family uses the bird as a feathered horse while the little girl rides, with the sister guiding from time to time.
Telegraph workers in Japan patrol lines with bamboo brooms as spiders rebuild their webs after dew or rain, causing frequent outages. The problem arose when spiders attach webs to insulators and wires rather than trees, complicating line maintenance.
Mrs Col E J Gresham of Herndon Virginia writes that Peruna cured her catarrh of the head and lungs after doctors gave up. She credits six bottles as life changing and urges others to try the remedy, noting thousands of women owe their lives to Peruna and hundreds of thousands praise it nationwide. The company offers a free book for women titled Health and Beauty.
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