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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1922
Page
6
The piece argues that a well built fire resistant one floor home with ample light and porch space increases in value over time. It contrasts easy bananas yield with laborious potato farming, noting bananas feed more per acre and require less work, while detailing home features like windows, a living room fireplace, dining room, two bedrooms, and convenient kitchen placement.
An illustrated feature promotes a concrete home with tile roof as a lasting, cost effective choice. Radford offers free building advice to readers and advises consulting local dealers for accurate cost estimates. He stresses permanency, resale value, and careful planning to avoid overbidding.
A London Answers writer argues bananas outperform most fruits for food value and flavor. Citing Humboldt, the piece claims an acre of bananas can equal 44 acres of potatoes for food output, noting the claim is exaggerated but suggests high efficiency of banana crops.
A discussion on how the mouth reflects inner states. Psychologists note the mouth changes with mental and physical reactions, with lips' movements revealing tendencies. In repose it hints at character, while expressions vary with emotional and mental forces shaping the mouth.
A father explains a slush fund as money raised by an opposing party for corrupt aims. The son asks if his party has one, and the father replies his generation does not, only raising small sums for legitimate expenses.
A prisoner declares a preference to narrate personal testimony, asking whether his account should be believed and whether it would carry conviction on its own. The remark reflects a desire for narrative control within the legal process.
A garbled OCR fragment shows a complainant referencing a boss nicknamed Lindelof and a clerk. The text includes disjointed phrases about office hours and a young lady, with unclear context or full details.
A reflective verse fragment describes a ghostly moonlit landscape with Orion visible as evening advances. The text shifts to practical kitchen notes on economical cooking and various recipes including casseroles lamb bean dishes and breads, followed by a political quote urging patriotic action.
Maple sirup and sugar flavored dishes featured include Maple Sugar Roll Foamy Pudding Maple Sirup Cake Maple Tapioca and Maple Mousse with instructions for mixing baking powder salt butter milk and eggs to produce pops of syrupy desserts and cakes in a home kitchen.
An advertisement touts Red Cross Ball Blue as a laundry aid for whitening clothes after a day of hard work. It frames children improving the world as a sentiment and promotes the product as the solution for snowy white laundry.
A brief column paragraph recalls a joke about the Venus de Milo with a dismissive remark about her figure, reflecting dated attitudes in light humor. The line contrasts historical sculpture with contemporary body commentary.
Bright ad touts Diamond Dyes with directions so simple that any woman can dye or tint faded items like skirts dresses and draperies. It claims no streaking fading or running and guarantees perfect home dyeing even for first-time users.
In Palestine near Beisan the Jordan valley yielded forty historical sites with seventeen previously unrecorded. Some ruins show evidence of great antiquity as archaeologists examine the area.
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