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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
1
A grandmother weighs the question of marriage timing and argues there is no fixed rule for women. She notes freedom from parental control in love, cites statistical decline in marriage chances after 24, and believes most women decide from the heart between ages 19 and 23.
Prof. Milton Whitney of the USDA argues soils are not wearing out. A new bulletin compares 1867 yield data and finds increasing crops per acre due to better cultivation rotation and fertilizer use. He says alarm about soil exhaustion is unwarranted and optimistic about farmer practices.
Washington reports a sharp rise in building operations nationwide with permits in the 100 largest cities totaling $20,000,000 more for the year ending July 1, 1909 than the same period in 1906. The surge reflects demand for increased accommodations despite financial stress.
A department bulletin by Dr Stiles, a chief government zoologist, outlines treatment and eradication for the so called book worm or lazy disease. The condition affects poor whites in the south, causes anaemia and aversion to labor. The piece notes the disease may be present beyond the Mason Dixon line and hints at delays in civic plans for Philadelphia.
The sultan of Morocco plans a showy display locking the rebel El Rhogl in a steel cage strapped to a camel and parading it through the streets, a circus like punishment. He also toys with boiling pitch as a punitive idea, prompting critics to call it a bad day for the sultan.
A New York woman hired herself out as a domestic servant at eighteen dollars a month while keeping a second servant at twenty two dollars. She robbed thirty women during her employment and has been sentenced to a three year term in a reformatory.
Holland Forbes of New York and Max Fleischmann of Cincinnati landed in Chesterfield county near Richmond after a 731 mile flight in the balloon New York. They started from St. Louis at 5:30 pm Tuesday and completed the trip in 19 hours and 15 minutes averaging 38 miles per hour, winning the Lahm Cup and setting speed records under Aero Club of America auspices.
Over six thousand attend the Larabee Flour Mills opening in Hutchinson. The German made steel and concrete mill cost 500000 and uses German machinery and process. The company also runs another mill at Stafford with a combined capacity of 2500 barrels daily. A large mill warehouse is described as the largest in Kansas. Five hundred couples dance on the vast floor.
Judge A B Anderson dismissed the proceedings against Delavan Smith and Chas R Williams owners of the Indianapolis News who resisted removal to the District of Columbia for trial on criminal libel charges over articles alleging a 28 million dollar profit in the Panama Canal sale.
Ohio federation morning session disputes seating of contested delegates amid claims that national AFL council actions alienate rank and file. Protests against the seceding Brotherhood of Electrical Workers faction span from Atlantic to Pacific, threatening to split the labor movement.
The Chicago Peoria and St. Louis Railroad Company seeks to strike down the Illinois two cent rate law in federal circuit court. Judge Humphrey issues a preliminary injunction stopping the state attorney general and county attorneys from enforcing the act against the railroad.
Oakland obituary notes editor George A. Edes died at his home aged 89. He дош lived in a family of editors dating to his great uncle linked to Benjamin Franklin. The Edes family possesses a relic from the Boston News Letter including Franklin's printed stick.
Guthrie Oklahoma F W Gist of the United States department of agriculture reports for the Oklahoma board revised to October 1 that Oklahoma will gin about 625000 bales of cotton this year and realize about 40000000 dollars from the crop, about 5000000 more than last year though production falls about 175000 bales short.
Eldon Missouri reports Nicholas Oberlea a farmer ambushed and mortally wounded Mr and Mrs W B Farris, his neighbors, then shot himself. He lay in a roadside ditch for three hours in cold drizzle waiting to avenge a perceived wrong.
New York entrepreneur Hudson Maxim, noted inventor of explosives and engines of war, declared that God would fight on the side with the strongest flying machines, asserting that air power will decide future conflicts and that heavier artillery workers will dominate the skies.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland arrives with daughters Esther and Marion and sons Francis and Richard. The group plans to enroll the children in a local Lausanne school and Mrs. Cleveland will reside nearby for an indeterminate period.
A fashionably dressed robber who robbed the savings bank of D. M. Erskine & Co. in Highland Park shot himself in the mouth when pressed by the Highland Park marshal and a citizen posse. The village lies on the lake shore about 26 miles north of Chicago.
An amended petition seeks a writ of mandamus to require the Chicago Board of Review to tax stock held by leading Chicago millionaires valued at 236.6 million dollars. Names include J Ogden Armour and others from the packing industry. The filing argues taxes could yield up to 80 million for the county treasury. The board replies that they lack authority to tax the listed holdings and requests proof of power.
Despotic government to terminate. Provincial legislatures will meet to draft a constitution for the empire. An imperial assembly of 50 publicly elected members will draft the charter in a palatial Peking auditorium with annex lodging rooms for delegates.
A split in the Ohio Federation of Labor over delegate seating led to the revocation of the original federation charter. The bolting faction was recognized by telephone from Frank Morrison and a charter was to be sent to the new organization immediately.
Chicago police confirm Lamar A. Harris of Los Angeles California, an attorney, as the man who robbed the Bank of D. M. Erskine & Co. at Highland Park Illinois on Wednesday and died by self-inflicted action when pursued by authorities.
A derailed Austin and Northwestern Railway engine and two cars plunged into a burning bridge over Watters Creek near McNeil Texas. Fireman J Sutton was killed and eight others injured as a heavy mist hid the bridge and prevented the engineer from stopping in time.
Detroit defeated Pittsburg 5 to 0 in game four to even the world championship series at two wins each. The game drew 17 036 fans despite a chilly 34 degree temperature in Detroit, Michigan.
New York New York Senator Patrick H McCarren Democratic party leader of Brooklyn was suddenly struck from the local campaign by an acute appendicitis requiring immediate operation.
A northbound Missouri Pacific freight crashed into the southbound Missouri Kansas & exam passenger train at Moody Station three miles south of LeRoy Kansas. Miss Grace Nelson of Americus was killed and many injured.
A humorous exchange mocks fashion and starch quality. Mrs Henpeck asks for an opinion on a hat while Mr Henpeck declines. A salesman touts Defiance Starch claiming no injurious chemicals and new ingredients for greater strength and smoothness. A proverb warns that a peach may prove to be a lemon.
A collage of consumer pitches mixed with quips on generosity hearing and thrift. Advertisements tout Allen's Lung Balsam Red Cross Ball Blue Lewis' Single Pinder cigars and a slogan about getting something for nothing. The tone mimics a bustling street-corner sales page.
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