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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
1
A Buffalo Express summary argues national interest talks in Washington should tackle city planning. Most cities grow piecemeal, with Gary, Indiana cited as an example built from nothing to a mature community. Early comprehensive planning could prevent recurring evils and secure future needs.
The Los Angeles Herald notes under manning in educational branches despite overcrowded professions. While trades show excess workmen, medical inspectors, school nurses, physical education directors and playground instructors are in high demand and current supply lags behind.
Four people drowned when a motor boat overturned at Coshocton QC. The incident underscores growing use of small power craft and the risk of capsizing under heavy machinery. A warning calls for buoyant air chambers at bow and stern to aid stability.
Bolivia maintains a defiant stance refusing to apologize to Argentina over the boundary line decision. Some observers label Bolivia as spoiled, while others suggest a regional belief that arbitration favors Bolivian outcomes.
Heat brings real suffering and deaths, yet the overall population endures. The piece urges fortitude to lessen affliction, arguing worry worsens the impact and endurance reduces hardship.
A noblewoman of Austria-Hungary aims to win a wealthy American husband. The piece notes titled men have used marriage to gain dollars, while American women have a stronger position in their own country and are less likely to be outmatched in this match.
France approves a decade long naval program costing 600 million dollars for construction of twelve battleships. The cabinet argues the country is thrifty and has abundant funds, though the plan is a costly endeavor for a nation with solid finances.
President Taft signals in talks that he will urge Congress to establish a postal savings bank system. He says hundreds of millions could go to the government and help redeem $600 to $700 million in two percent bonds. The plan targets timid savers who prefer government backed two percent interest over regular bank rates.
Kansas asks the federal government to supply veterinarians to test dairy cattle for tuberculosis. State livestock sanitary commissioner J H Mercer says the department is overwhelmed with applications and lacks staff after legislative expansion. The law requires free state testing but new help is needed to continue efforts.
In Montevideo harbor entrance a collision of two excursion steamers bound from Buenos Aires to the Montevideo festival caused a mass drowning. Estimates range from 150 to 300 victims, mostly women and children. one vessel sank rapidly, stymieing rescue efforts.
Judge Ralph Campbell sustains demurrers in United States suits to set aside deeds and leases by five civilized tribes allottees in eastern Oklahoma. Court finds no remaining vestige of title in United States and declares the Indians citizens with full rights. Bills dismissed due to many defendants and numerous distinct land transactions.
French aviator Paulhan set a new world record with a 2 hour 53 minute flight at Rheims despite 20 minutes of rain and wind. He also achieved a new distance record of about 134 kilometers after 13 circuits as the dirigible Col. Remnard appeared in the west.
Mrs. Sarah B. Thompson, also known as Sarah B. Cotton, died in Washington from injuries suffered last April when struck by a street car. She was on Union Army pension rolls and credited with aiding federal troops by locating John Morgan’s hiding place. Morgan, a Confederate general, was killed trying to escape from prison.
In St. Joseph Missouri humane officer John A Crawford charged Western Union Telegraph night manager Frank Hulton and messenger company manager Richard Hartin with violating the child labor act. They allegedly employed boys under 14 as night messengers.
The Alaska Steamship Company steamer Ohio carrying 128 passengers and 82 crew struck a rock near Steep Point, Alaska, and sank. Initial reports cited 50 or more dead, but the official tally lists five fatalities. Humboldt and Rupert City rescued survivors. purser and operator sacrificed themselves. The Dolphin stood by. remaining passengers and crew are aboard Humboldt or awaiting transfer at Swanson Bay.
Washington experts urge that dismissed cadets from West Point for hazing cannot be reinstated. The law mandates dismissal for cadets found guilty and forbids reentry to West Point or army service, with civilian exams possible two years after their class graduates.
In Topeka Kansas the Marion National Bank filed the first demurrer in the bank deposit guaranty case before the supreme court. The demurrer argues the petition by the attorney general fails to show sufficient facts against this bank and requests dismissal of the case as it concerns it.
Henry Farman, English aviator, flying a bi plane of his own design, set a world record for duration and distance in a heavier-than-air machine. He won the grand Prix de La Champagne with an official flight of 80 kilometers in 3 hours 4 minutes 56.25 seconds, achieving 111.78 miles.
Iowa's corn crop for 1909 is projected at 286,464,800 bushels based on reports to Dr. George M. Chappet of the Iowa crop bureau. The figure shows a drop of 15,408,350 bushels from last year's total.
In Waverly Iowa a gasoline tank explosion in the Kelly Canning factory canning department caused a second floor fire panic among 300 employees. George McRoberts was killed three others probably fatally injured and about twenty severely hurt as the building burned destroying 100000 dollars in damage and 3 000 000 cans of corn.
The Fifty years since the first oil strike near Titusville at the Emory farm have been commemorated with a grand celebration in the city. The event marks the birth of the petroleum era in America and drew community members to honor the milestone.
The American Bar Association concluded its convention in Detroit Michigan with a banquet honoring the new officers and reflecting on the week's sessions.
National Lead Company offers a free Houseowners' Painting Outfit No 49 from the 1902 Trinity Building in New York City. Request includes color schemes books for exterior or interior painting, specifications, and an adulteration-detection instrument, shipped at no cost.
Dialogue hints at a confrontation between a preacher named Tommy and an elder, with a challenge about honesty and the start of his habit of lying. The fragment implies a moral rebuke and a question of when truthfulness began.
A New Jersey Justice of the Peace advertised to wed couples at any time for five dollars with one dollar down and the rest in weekly installments of one dollar. Shortly after his ad appeared a couple in an automobile woke him and he performed the ceremony, accepting the installment terms.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reports that nearly 3,000,000 people attended tuberculosis exhibitions during the year ending August 31. In addition to three traveling exhibitions, 28 other displays operated nationwide, up from three displays four years earlier.
Farmer Corntessel complains about summer guests. He cites a lecturing young woman with glasses who spoils the garden color scheme by applying paris green to vegetables.
A Boston mother extols Grape-Nuts in an amusing testimonial about feeding her three sons Rob Jack and Dick aged six four and two. She cites improved health strength and mental activity from daily use and urges other mothers to consider the cereal as a candy alternative.
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