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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
3
A nighttime avian portrait notes that night birds like chuck-will's-widow and whip-poor-will call loudly in darkness while day birds remain silent, with occasional notes from owls herons terns and the nightingale and oven-bird. Ernest Ingersoll references Harper's Magazine in this compact survey.
A reflecting mirror of kindness and fair dealing yields mutual warmth and loyalty. Treat clerks well, buy from broad groups, and reward public generosity to secure lasting success. Be exacting about small rights, yet keep a pleasant, forward motion to avoid constant scrutiny.
Poem fragment features the Wind as a hound racing over land and sea. The speaker laments sleet and iron bars, craving sunlight and life’s memory, while invoking images of discernment, fate, and divine witness in a murky late nineteenth century tone. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
An essay on the nature of flattery its motives and changing fashions. It discusses whether praise is good or bad depends on intent and context. Also notes wartime value of New Yorks canal and a Paris naval officer's courteous if peculiar note to a Siamese admiral with flowers.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt explains that gilded signs use silver or aluminum leaf under yellow paint to simulate gold, with genuine gold leaf required on curved picture-frame surfaces. The Parkland Isles feature weathered boulders that hide rooted trees, a unique forest-like growth found nowhere else.
A girl learns to restrain herself from contradicting adults after being teased by a grown up. She nearly loses grace until her imagination offers a compromise. In tears she blurts out that she thinks the adult is mistaken and calls them a beast.
Miss Charlotte McCarthy recounts a curious dinner anecdote about Charles Stewart Parnell. She notes his keen observation as he warns her not to drink her coffee, saying she had stirred it the wrong way and it would be unlucky, then instructs her to get another cup.
The text argues shell color does not indicate quality and suggests breaking eggs to judge yolk richness. Deep orange yolks signal better eggs while pale yellow yolks indicate poorer quality. It links hen diet and housing to yolk color and notes iron content in eyes as a test of nutrition.
The Lisbon revolt of November 1640 deposed Miguel Vasconcelos, the secretary of state, leading to the abdication of Margaret of Savoy and the offer of the crown to the Duke of Braganza. In the meantime a popular Trish merchant John Darcy governed Lisbon as nominal king from December 1 to December 6, 1640.
A paper presented to the Society for the Promotion of Health recommends swallowing clean sand daily to aid digestion. The author argues that grit from silica in sand enhances grinding of food, making meals nourishing and cheerful, suggesting six five grain capsules with each meal.
The article notes two gifts for the lobster: early and constant fight ability, and the capacity to regrow lost parts. These traits allow the lobster to persist and become a useful member of society, with many members effectively second-hand by adulthood.
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