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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1916
Page
7
A mother warns that motion picture posters in public view tempt children, not just the films. She argues posters provoke harmful images and urges a coordinated drive by enlightened mothers to regulate posters and protect youth through community action.
A lazy milkman habitually watered milk. He finds a large iron cask of water, tampers the milk, and is confronted by a householder who reveals his plan and mocks the mix with salt water in a sharp warning. The tale ends with the milkman exposed as the master notes his doctor’s sea water baths.
University of Indiana Professor Foley explains that pouring gasoline through a funnel may generate charges in very dry air but notes that ignition depends on complex induced charges. He warns that dry floors and clothing can become electrified and that static electricity could ignite gas under certain conditions.
The article traces how Proverbs 13 24 quoted verse on sparing the rod evolved through later writers Ralph Venning and Samuel Butler. Venning’s version reads They spare the rod and spoil the child while Butler popularized spare the rod and spoil the child. Butler likely coined the famous phrasing.
A compact outline of key poultry farming facts focusing on cleanliness, feeding, and management. It covers kerosene use, head treatments for chicks, hatchery cautions, milk in drinks, oats as prime grain, green bone meal, and nitrogenous rations. It notes that crowded yards harm flocks and stresses profitable breeding practices.
Cornell poultry instructor C B Kent identifies four signs of laying condition: molt timing shank color comb texture and ear lobes. Molt timing and comb texture apply to all breeds while shank and ear lobe color relate to yellow shank breeds.
Poultry shows are promoted by organizations of fanciers who educate the public in breeding purebred varieties. Door receipts help pay cash prizes and trophies to encourage better specimens, sustaining progress in standard varieties of domesticated fowls.
Article notes the Rainy Day club founded by Mrs. A. M. Palmer has won its campaign to shorten hemlines. After decades of advocacy and physician testimony, skirts shortened and bicycles aided change, signaling the club may disband if bylaws are not revived to push longer garments.
The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer notes a strong push in Great Britain to adopt the decimal system for coinage and weights and measures. Proponents argue that trading with a decimal world reduces handicaps and could prevent ruinous disadvantages in postwar international trade.
Advertisement notes itching scalp from dandruff and eczema. Recommends Cuticura Soap with hot water for cleansing and soothing, with Cuticura Ointment applied to the scalp first. Free samples by mail with a book. Send postcard to Cuticura Dept. L Boston. Sold everywhere.
Magistrate Fordham commented on a case where a woman sought process against a man for smashing her window after a late night phonograph played at ten. He called the noise vexing and troublesome and wondered why more damage did not occur.
A short vintage ad urges women to keep a well run home and to use Red Cross Ball Blue for bluing laundry. It features a light joke about a florist cheerleader and a pun with the line I root for them.
Two soldiers on four days leave amused onlookers at a golf course as one man repeatedly swung at the ball without moving it. His companion urged him to hit the ball, stressing the short leave.
The Baltimore American presents quoted praise on health and beauty as a witty exchange. The snippet centers on a sharp remark about wellness and artistic portrayal.
A garbled, fragmentary OCR passage describes buildings crashing and trees falling in a cataclysm with shouted phrases and scattered names. The text intermixes quotes and invented dialogue, lacking clear attribution or event details.
A New York man near fifty reports renewed energy and vigor after using iron-naxated iron supplements. He credits iron as the key strength builder, claiming improved health from thirty to fifty and urging others to test their endurance and try nuxated iron.
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