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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
6
Dear Teacher recounts a playful scene in which a boy brings flowers for his teacher and jokes about sprinkling pepper so she sneezes. The fragment captures childlike humor and classroom mischief characteristic of light verse or diary-like prose.
A mother details a two and a half month old baby with watery facial eczema and bloodied scratches after costly doctor’s treatments. She reports complete cure after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, purchased for a dollar and fifty cents, with the family crediting the remedy as superior to prior medicines. Boston based Potter Drag & Chem. Corp. promotes the line.
The president is set to pass through Plunkville at 60 miles per hour during a roundabout trip as secretaries explain schedules and committee members seek a solution like discarding an old hat.
A reflective line noting that people judge others more harshly than themselves while being aware of others' misdeeds. It emphasizes self-critique over condemning neighbors and frames moral scrutiny as a constant human burden.
The U S A C animal husbandry department arranged with Dan Casement and Geo N Collister of the Juanita ranch near this city to feed two hundred head of cattle this season. Half receive corn cotton seed meal and alfalfa hay while half receive straight corn and alfalfa hay. The trial tests the relative feeding value of corn and alfalfa with or without cotton seed meal.
J H Hayward a farmer near Oberlin reports four head of cattle lost to blackleg in the last days all fat yearlings. Precautions are being taken to prevent spread and vaccination will be used after vaccine is received from government. First loss reported this season in the area.
United States revenue cutter Perry crew reports Logoslof Island named Incandescent Island with water testing 210 degrees Fahrenheit and steam plumes from fissures A glowing lake spot and boiling gull eggs show intense heat while nearby Pablov Island shows earth disturbance suggesting an early eruption of Parblev volcano Smoke and steam were seen miles at sea.
Gov Hauwey announced a county flood preventive and river improvement convention for St Charles this Saturday. Aimed to form a local organization, it launches a series of meetings statewide with state waterways commission members and experts. He vows to extend river protection efforts beyond Sedalia resolutions.
The Kansas Baptist convention at Concordia established an aid fund for aging ministers. Elected officers include President W. O. Shanks of Winfield, Vice-President R. E. York of Argentine, Secretary A. D. Phelps of Topeka, and directors W. E. Raffety, J. H. Teall, and W. L. Harms from Kansas City Kansas.
Farmer John Mommens of Cherokee County near Weir City reports Swedish seed oats outperforming local varieties. He sowed two bushels last spring and harvested 100 bushels, while seven bushels grown on the same ground yielded 90 bushels of Texas oats the prior year.
The Hiawatha school board abandons individual drinking cups as a nuisance and will install bubble drinking fountains in each room. They initially bought 800 cups, found them unsatisfactory, and will replace them with fountains costing about 25 dollars each.
Washington reports that the United States recognizes Nicaragua's action closing its Atlantic ports. Nicaragua announced the measure days ago and notified the state department. Acting Secretary McHarg ordered U S customs collectors to refuse clearances to Nicaraguan ports until the dispute is resolved.
The Federation of Labor executive council passed a resolution to prepare legislation in Congress to create a department of labor with a cabinet secretary. It argues labor interests are independent and seeks to split the department of commerce and labor. Samuel Gompers is urged for the prospective secretaryship.
Rev. D. H. Carrick, once in the limelight after resigning from the North Lawrence Christian church pastorate to drive a street car, has left that job and gone East to conduct evangelistic services.
Wichita commissioners call for architects to prepare plans and specifications for a new city auditorium. Bonds totaling 150000 dollars have been sold to fund the construction project.
Prospect work by Robert and William Speith with John Beamer on the William Speith farm near Hallowell indicates Cherokee county may join oil producing regions. Black oil bearing sand found at about 200 feet depth and a small gas well was brought in last winter in the same area.
The combined Protestant churches of the United States will launch a nationwide advertising drive across newspapers magazines and billboards starting the new year to stress the need to remedy pressing social economic and religious issues.
The Philadelphia mint has issued no other coins since late June due to overwhelming demand for the new Lincoln pennies. In the past three and a half months copper penny production reached 70 million.
The Kansas Commoner of Wichita is sold by W. J. Babb and Frank Nighs wonger to M. B. Murphy of Malone New York. He plans to merge it with the Weekly Democrat and start an afternoon daily paper beginning January first.
Sheriff Hatton ordered the disposal of 2450 gallons of beer seized two weeks earlier in cold storage at West Mineral Cherokee County. No claims were filed against the confiscated beer.
John Hubatka, chief of police, faces charges of embezzlement and forgery. He was arrested and released on bond. District Judge Clark stayed Hubatka’s dismissal from office.
James McCrea, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, announced plans for a new Union passenger station and terminal in Chicago costing not less than $25,000,000.
In a Youths Companion article from September 23 1909 Dr Browne calls oatmeal highly valuable for brain and body development in youth. He notes oats are richest in fats and phosphorus and that Quaker Scotch Oats strengthens the thyroid, linking porridge to a robust, well minded Scottish populace.
A wry dialogue contrasts sending a wife to the sea with a humorous twist: instead, a deck chair for the balcony is presented as a practical gift signaling playful affection and domestic wit.
An advertisement promotes Lewis' Single Binder cigars wrapped in foil for freshness. It claims superior tobacco justifying a higher price than other 5c cigars and warns buyers to avoid imitations, urging them to request Lewis' brand from dealers.
The cartoonist’s wife told a friend that Fred didn’t want to work last night. She recalled his sleep remark that he would stay but did not want to draw, as noted in Lippincott’s Magazine.
A witty exchange notes a man talking without pause and a woman speaking with decisive cadence. The quip highlights gendered conversational habits in a humorous light.
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