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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
4
Local business notices urge shoppers to visit Roy al Tailors in Belleville for bargains while mentioning various nearby trades. The fragment lists a string of social visits and daily errands including Annon from Belleville, Sophie Peterson visiting Courtland, and Kallman hall hosting events.
Cough syrup marketed as a reliable remedy for coughs and colds priced 25 and 50 cents at Nywall's. Local ad promotes the product with emphasis on relief and affordability.
Mrs Maxwell spent Monday with her daughter Mrs Swanson in the country. A J White went to Concordia Tuesday afternoon on telephone business.
Community tidbits include EB H VanNatta visiting Belleville on business and several Belleville residents announcing visits to or from nearby towns. Advertisements promote free ware sets worth 7 50 with Cullers and Goodwin, and offer printing services for sale bills with prompt, neat work.
H D Graves of Belleville, a representative of the Watkins Medicine Co, was in town Monday morning conducting business. Read Cullers and Goodwin's advertisement in this paper and you will understand why they draw such crowds daily.
The Majestic Mfg Co of St Louis displays the Majestic Range in aerial operation at Cullers and Goodwin's this week, showing how it bakes and serves biscuits to dehavyse crawas.
The text notes ancient Greek guidance on sterilized water, praising boiling and reboiling in earthenware, percolation through clay pits to remove impurities, and cautions about Nile water despite modern microscopy deeming it sound. It discusses military camps using pits from high to low ground for purification.
Sam Welleresque counsel is cited as the Philadelphia Record notes widows outperform younger spinsters in marriage dynamics. After age forty widows are said to dominate pursuits, while younger spinsters retreat, giving widows a perceived edge in securing second marriages.
An experiment near Bedford England used a straight six mile water span with three posts of equal height. A telescope showed the central post peeking over the others by about six feet, illustrating Earth's curvature. Repeated with modern tools, the observation aligns with the shipmast visibility rule at sea.
Duskin, a representative of the Kansas City Life Insurance Co, called at the local offices last Thursday. He is a nephew of D. W. Duskin of Belleville.
We enjoyed a visit last Friday from Floyd McKenney of Lincoln Nebraska who is visiting Republic County. McKenney was foreman on the Belleville Telescope when the paper began.
Do not forget the big dance November 26. The Odd Fellows and wives were entertained at the Blosser home in Norway last Wednesday night and enjoyed an oyster supper after lodge. Several residents traveled to see relatives and others kept busy with local visits and marriages around Concordia Scandia and Belleville.
The paper will publish a day earlier next week due to Thanksgiving Day. Advertisers are urged to send copy as early as possible to ensure timely placement.
An old style ad announces a daily newspaper in Topeka Kansas offering 100 days for 1000 a paper and calls attention to a first class daily with state and local news coverage in a capital city publication.
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