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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1931
Page
2
The article argues proration aims to equalize field output and reduce waste, not set prices, citing gasoline price declines in California as evidence. It warns against federal power expansion into energy, defending states’ rights and constitutional limits while noting historic speed records as a metaphor.
A 1930s survey cites total government cost per family rising from 135 to 460 and notes waste in local units costing over half a million dollars yearly. It calls for economical practices and stronger driver responsibility to reduce auto fatalities and injuries, with proposals like stricter insurance surcharges and grade separation of roads.
Bert W. Selin muses on economic distress from wheat to oil and coal, noting price drops and shipping cuts. The Belleville area tax changes, a Locke Drug robbery, and a late Mrs. Underwood burial in her wedding dress are reported alongside quips from local papers.
The Topeka Capital endorses autumn as the bracing season of harvest and renewal, arguing fall outshines spring for vigor and community festivities. It notes October’s literary prestige in Kansas and the sense of home-coming and tempered energy after hot weather.
Local dispatch details job cuts in the Burlington division with Carl Bangston among those reassigned as section hands while mileage on Republic county branches extends to eleven miles except Woodruff at 13. Kansas Pipe Line plans gas service to five towns including Scandia Narka and Morrowville with other towns to receive mains before cold weather. The Teapot Dome oil line serves 29 towns as gas lines expand into Linn Greenleaf and other nearby areas.
A sprawling poem from the Tribune scene catalogs excess and habit in rural life from oats and wheat to taxes and debt. It juxtaposes quotes from El Dorado Times, Atchison Globe, and local papers, ending with a fragment about a speech loss in Trenton and a note on past editorial efforts.
The clip covers scattered notes from Scandia and nearby towns in 1906 and 1917. It mentions Mrs H G Crandall visiting family, Miss Clara Kallman, John Vandeveer buying a Cloud County farm for 16000, and rising land values. It reports Scandia school opening with 142 pupils and local residents attending fairs and planning work and study.
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