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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
4
A Louisville Courier-Journal comment denounces heavy travel labels on luggage as boastful and tasteless. It argues souvenirs from California New York or lofty hotels mark travelers as showy, and suggests those with such baggage should avoid public advertising or claim anti label objections.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes China will establish playgrounds in its cities after observing Western health standards during the plague. An Ting will receive a public subscription funded playground on a large urban tract, designed for all social classes and built on modern American plans to improve living conditions.
A brightly polished Iron golf club attracted a bolt of lightning striking a player named Tite during a game on a Washington course. The incident underscores the danger of lightning near open greens.
The writer imagines future liners so vast they span from bow to stern with space to walk. A man reportedly crossed from Providence to Gibraltar in a twenty foot yawl, a feat mocking the reader’s feeling of wanting to escape Providence.
In Seattle a would be robber fled when his intended victim began reciting poetry. The incident suggests poetry can deter crime and protect bystanders in urban settings.
A Chicago man named Enoch Arden returned home after a twelve year absence and damaged furniture in a dispute, earning a $75 fine. The original Enoch was by contrast luckier than this modern namesake.
A movement seeks to push clocks to roll off twenty four hours straight, while a man may attempt to use his late key at twenty two o'clock, which would not be unduly late.
A St. Louis judge says he finds newspaper reporters as honest and tellable as lawyers, a remark some reporters may view as a left handed compliment.
A Connecticut woman used her life's savings for her funeral expenses. The remark mirrors The Mikado lines about fun, yet she did not see any joy in the costly departure.
Local business men propose to relocate the bed of the Mississippi River and consider placing it on casters to ease movement of the river for a public works project.
Commissioner J N Dolley reports 1888 Kansas banks hold 98.88 million in deposits up over 4 million since June. Total capital 17.53 million, surplus 6.42 million, undivided profits 2.64 million, loans 80.17 million, cash and exchanges 35.44 million. Reserve 35.7 percent. Banks say deposits rose 4.13 million and reserve increased with money returning to the system.
About 14 000 Kansas corporations with combined capitalization near 50 million dollars lost their charters after the state charter board led by Secretary of State Charles Sessions declared their charters no longer effective. Wyandotte county accounts for 674 of the cancellations as reports required four years ago under a new law were finally filed.
In Sedalia Missouri Gov Hadley wielded a heavy sledge to break the first stone marking the start of Pettis county part of the southern route on the Missouri Capital Cross State Highway. A crowd cheered as rain dampened ceremonies but construction began without delay.
Marshall Missouri voters approve the plan to organize the city and surrounding four mile radius into a special road district by a 607 to 207 margin, carrying the proposition three to one.
Drillers near Odessa Missouri have reached a gas flow at a 300 foot depth while drilling a southwest of town well. The find raises prospects of oil and gas development in the local area.
The White Star liner Olympic bound for New York with record cabin passengers was rammed by the British cruiser Hawke off Cowes Isle of Wight. No injuries reported as Hawke swung and struck Olympic on starboard quarters, causing a large hull breach.
The Russian premier Stolypin died from a bullet wound after an assassination attempt in Kiev. Police say 150 arrests were made of Bogroff’s associates. The case sparked theories of a new autonomous revolutionary group aiming to kill statesmen and hints that Bogroff acted as both revolutionary agent and police spy.
In Stratford Missouri three women Mrs Cutbarn Mrs Shull and Mrs Banfield narrowly avoided being struck by a Frisco fast mail as they crossed the main track after disembarking from eastbound train No 2. The whistle frightened them and two jumped to safety while the third turned back. The engine grazed the woman who returned, injuring her hand and tearing another’s dress before all escaped serious harm.
George Alfred Kimmel once of Arkansas City Kansas arrived from Auburn New York penitentiary at his old home in Niles. Despite identification by friends and associates his mother Mrs Ste Kimmel insisted he was an imposter trying to take her $25 000 life insurance policy.
Three men posing as robbers shocked the Bradick farm near Crescent City killing Mel Bradick and wounding his brother Robert. They fled with Charles Bradick, a cousin, after the raid.
In Sedan Kansas at 3 am robbers tunneled into the rear of Citizens State Bank of Chautauqua eight miles south and blasted the vault with nitroglycerin, destroying the door and causing about 1000 dollars in damage. About 150 dollars in silver was taken from a counter changer. no one woke and no currency inside the safe was taken.
In Montreal the Jaurier government falls as Liberals lose a 43 seat majority to a Conservative sweep. The Conservatives secure one of the largest majorities in Canadian history, bolstered by patriotism and fears of annexation, overturning the reciprocity platform.
Curtis Hill described Glasgow Missouri efforts to keep the official route by adding a river ferry at the Missouri River crossing five miles from Glasgow on each side. A push button on a sign post rings the ferry tender in his house, with the craft able to carry four cars and operate 24 hours a day, trip times from three to five minutes.
Cattlemen J. H. Stine and H. B. Johnson seek to strike down the state cattle quarantine law in Grady County. They obtained an injunction against the state board of agriculture and the sheriff to stop dipping their cattle for fever ticks.
The first fur row on the grade work for the Kansas City Clay County and Excelsior Springs Interurban railway was plowed on Jas. Garnand’s farm just south of Dearborn Missouri. About 100 people witnessed the start of actual construction.
Chicago judge Peter S. Grosscup, presiding in the U S circuit court of appeals Northern district of Illinois, says he will not resign to President Taft until charges and criticisms of his conduct are published and he can vindicate himself. He proposes a far reaching investigation and a committee to probe all allegations by responsible persons.
New York report states O P Rodgers, the latest coast to coast starter, arrived at Hancock New York after flying 95 miles from Middletown New York in 78 minutes as part of the record flight segment.
A testimonial from Elwood Ind tells how Mrs Sapim Mullen recovered after six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased three months of illness. The ad claims the remedy treats displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains backache indigestion and nervous prostration and offers free confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
A man named Bunsen teased his wife over a new hat until she billed him 1834 for retrimming. He paid without complaint and admitted the hat’s revision was perfect.
The Slater News recalls an old tale about a Baptist and a Presbyterian disputing which church saves better. A passerby guides them with a wheat farmer’s parable about two roads to the mill and the miller asking only if the wheat is good. The Kansas City Times adds a proverb on driving men to drink.
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