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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1912
Page
2
The Scandia Journal of Scandia Kansas is entered at the post office as second class matter.
Subscriptions at $1 per year in advance. Display ads set at 10c per column inch, 5c per line for first insertion (six words per line). Special rates on contracts. Mail order ads paid with copy. 25c charge for ecard of thanks. Regular rates apply for announcements and socials raised funds.
Chairman J N Dolley outlines a vigorous inclusive campaign with no reprisals and no favoritism. The platform promises broad inheritance tax reform raising child exemptions to 25000 and refunds to heirs of estates up to 25000, reversing prior low thresholds and alleged missteps to favor small estates.
The Republican council adopted a platform plank promising to repeal the road tax provision that requires cash payment instead of work. It cites hardship in western Kansas where crops were light and many with idle time could work off the tax but cannot afford cash. The pledge targets the new road law and aims to remove cash payment as the requirement.
The Republic County Democrat reports a Taft club organized last Saturday at the courthouse with Wm. Slopan sky as president A. Q. Miller as secretary and Wesley Saip as treasurer. Details are unconfirmed but rumors suggest anti Bull Moose sentiment and support for the Taft-Sherman line.
Mesdames Hutchens and others visited Hardy and Sleepy Hollow area Tuesday. Twin girls welcomed by the Rus sells. a kitchen shower for Mrs Ray Swihart ahead of Nelson nuptials. Cars, gasoline engines, and oil deliveries enliven community life with visitors from Concordia Courtland and Formosa.
Sunday calls by Henry Lane and others. threshers at work. Violet Lovewell visited. Y M C A cooperates with County Fair for boy stock judging directed by J G Arbuthnot with Vet lectures by Dr Barnard. County Y M C A plans a headquarters tent for county boys at the fair and promotes livestock judging open to all. House Concurrent Resolution No 3 proposes amending the Kansas constitution to grant equal voting rights to women, showing text and dates of passage and approval in 1911.
An advertisement urges women to overcome weakness with Dr. King's Life Pills claiming new strength, fair complexion, pure breath and cheerful spirits. It promises easy, safe, and sure benefits for 25 cents at local druggists.
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