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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1908
Page
6
The article examines fur bearing domestication as a potential industry, focusing on silver fox breeding in North America. It notes limited Alaska blue fox study, growing interest, variables in success, and that most breeders are small, rural operators using wild stock and incremental investment.
Los Angeles reports arriving diary of B F Pratt who perished of thirst in Death Valley while prospecting for gold. The dying man pleads to brothers C H Pratt KE H Pratt and W R Pratt and recounts worsening conditions with no water and deteriorating sight.
A reflective line notes a youth mistaking his loss of head for a loss of heart, suggesting misjudged romantic pursuit. the saying frames impulsive choices over enduring feeling.
To man the new western field headquarters of the forestry service recently established at Missoula Montana in Denver Colorado Albuquerque New Mexico Ogden Utah San Francisco and Portland Oregon a party of 365 forests clerks stenographers and other employees including 120 patients from 50 to 75 administrative officers will leave here December 1. The chief forester and 200 employees will remain here.
Marquis Eaton of the Hamilton club and Chicago citizens requested incorporation papers for the Sane Fourth association. The group aims to enforce laws to reduce accidents and promote a patriotic celebration.
In Topeka Kansas Adjutant General Hughes and the railroads agreed to settle in court the dispute over payments for transporting Kansas troops to Fort Riley during maneuvers The railroads demand full fare under the two cent fare law while Hughes cites an old law setting one cent per mile.
Four hundred young men and women from Kansas and Oklahoma will meet in Wichita for a four day convention of the Young Women’s Christian Association of Kansas and Oklahoma. Most delegates come from colleges and schools in the two states.
One man is dead one fatally injured and four hurt after a dynamite explosion at the Hammond mines in Gadsden Alabama on Wednesday night. Twenty four miners houses were leveled and many other structures damaged. Several women and children sustained minor injuries.
Dorothy Rhodes a 16 year old girl was killed by a stone hurled about 200 yards from a quarry near the city workhouse. She was in a tent 200 yards south of the institution when the stone struck.
On the application of a majority of its stockholders seeking voluntary dissolution Justice Truax in the supreme court appointed Thomas F. Gilroy as temporary receiver of the Fidelity Funding Company in New York City.
Neosho Missouri the murder trial of Bessie Davidson who shot her sister s sweetheart Roy Ramsour was postponed from Tuesday to the April term of the circuit court, delaying the case.
John P. Caddagan, who leased and managed the Hoffman House since 1894, died Thursday night after a several months illness caused by growths.
Louis Lehman of Los Angeles clung to a narrow four inch ledge on Wheat canyon wall for about an hour after a dove hunting mishap. Chief Shill of the Hollywood fire department lowered to him by rope and pulled him to safety, his hands bleeding and strength spent.
Jacob Wilson, a farmer near Story Indiana, crawled into a dry well to deepen it and a cave in trapped him. His wife and son, with the family dog Shep, tracked him by scent and pulled him out just before suffocation. He escaped with nervous prostration and no broken bones.
An indignant stranger questions malaria presence while Farmer Corntessel explains summer boarders left, leaving no malaria to be seen. The Washington Star reports the exchange and implied health doubt.
Mrs William Geeding of Attica Indiana reports a boy’s skin sores that spread then healed after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment three times. She says the sores left no scar and did not recur, and praises Cuticura Remedies highly. The note is dated July 22 1907.
A six year old girl plans an afternoon tea for friends aiming for a perfect mimicry of her mother’s style. She asks what to serve and jokes about pink tis sue paper and cambric tea as the fashionable whim, citing Uncle Tom’s approval.
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product in a large 2 oz package priced at 5 cents. The copy also references Lewis’ Factory and a dealer connected to Pepvia Jr with notes about measurement and quality.
Hon R S Tharin a Washington lawyer and Anti-Trust League counsel endorses Peruna for catarrhal disorders calling it a tonic of great usefulness. A West Aylmer Ontario reader cites recovery from pneumonia after two months on Peruna and notes another woman’s return to work after three months. The notice mentions Peruna tablets as a solid alternative, each tablet equaling one dose.
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