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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1906
Page
9
The editor and family travel to Manhattan for a celebration of his father’s 70th birthday and 50 years on the same Kansas farm aside from Civil War service. A Scandia visit accompanies a trade trip to the Colorado line with the Lincoln Nebraska Commercial Club leading the delegation.
A Chicago business college enthusiast praises a remarkable six digit arrangement 142 357. Multiplying by 2 3 4 5 and 6 yields 285 714 428 571 671 428 714 285 and 857 142 respectively each result containing the same digits as the original and illustrating a curious numerical oddity.
The Agricultural College announces Bulletin No. 143 on improving alfalfa seed purity and germination. It explains seed defects and how to detect them, with the bulletin available free from the Agricultural Experiment Station in Manhattan, Kansas.
A farmer’s wife, inspired by an old proverb, planted dozens of eggs around her ailing husband with typhoid fever. She believed heat would hatch the eggs like a hen and produced a brood whose value helped pay the physician’s bill.
A St Lawrence county man, widowed thrice and now living with a new wife who has two children, faces a discussion of divorce. A visitor cites St Paul about putting away a wife as sin, prompting a boy to point out his father's multiple marriages and church role.
Alum is a useful household precaution to render light fabrics less fire prone. Rinse children's white garments with alum water by dissolving two ounces in a gallon of boiling water and applying the solution after the alum fully dissolves.
A new gladiolus named Maid of the Mist was discovered growing in the spray of Victoria Falls in South Africa. Four bulbs were sent to England and sprouted in a hot house through constant misting. The petals arrange to form a penthouse protecting stamens and pistils from the continual downpour.
Classical poets like Byron James Montgomery and Pope are cited praising the octopus. The lines reference the nautilus as a sailors shell craft and sea vessel with oars and a guiding prow. The excerpt surveys literary personifications of the sea creature.
A brief tip suggests heat provides relief for earache in children. The method involves gently filling the ear with water as hot as tolerable, poured in with a teaspoon while the affected ear is uppermost, then waiting a short time before draining.
The Republic County Kansas Board of Equalization will meet at the County Clerk's office in the courthouse on the first Monday in June 1906 to fairly and impartially equalize the valuation of all personal property and real estate. Aggrieved parties may appear to have errors corrected. Dated May 1, 1906. W. K. Walters, County Clerk.
A Laon doh Mail excerpt describes a simple foot test. Dip feet in water or flour and walk. inspect tracks after. If the outer rim skids with a strong ball-impression and inner line breaks, the foot is well arched and requires good shoe leather. If both inner and outer borders show continuous lines, adjust footwear or walking habit.
A garbled OCR style riddle asks about complex kinship steps linking maternal lines and cousins. It presents a chain involving great grandfather uncle nephew and son in law, seeking a relation between two people through multiple generations.
A traveler in a New York restaurant recounts a desert tale of Arabian horses churned butter. He explains how Arab tribes use a sheepskin bag tied to a saddle horn to ride and churn milk into firm smooth butter.
Fragmentary text references a court decision and Justice Charlee Doe, with unclear context. The wording suggests a judicial ruling or opinion but lacks sufficient details on case name, court, or outcome.
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