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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1907
Page
8
A Home Trade league correspondent admires a city style advertising plan that names new goods with prices and promotes what is to be disposed of at cost. He claims sales rose, a clerk was dispensed with, and 28 customers shifted from Chicago catalogues. He urges country merchants to imitate, use publicity, and attract buyers through truthful ads.
A prose piece argues the universal lure of getting something for nothing. It cites politicians, railroads, and merchants who ride free or promise goods with no proper pay, illustrating how such greed leads to dishonesty and downfall. The essay labels this fallacy an ignis fatuus the wise should avoid.
The article argues that economies rise as manufacturing relocates to areas with cheaper raw materials. It notes cotton in the south doubles production in a decade while New England declines. Mills should cluster near wheat and corn to cut freight and improve farmer profits, with farmers urged to back local manufacturing via advertising and subscriptions.
A short, clipped exchange notes two hobos named Mike both fatigued by hard labor. The first complains of nervous prostration from overwork while the second asks what he has been handling, remarking on too many easy marks.
A riddle about a hen lifting a hornet yields a playful pun on trouble. The image hints at a comic misadventure where a poultry act creates a messy, ironic scene.
Capt. John L. Ely of Co. H, 17th Ohio, now in Newton, Kansas, recounts kidney trouble from Civil War campaigns. He says pain and back weakness, with urinary issues, improved after starting Dean's Kidney Pills in 1901. He claims lasting recovery and urges others to try the remedy, sold for 60 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co.
Congressman Watson recalled his support for the pure food measure and shared a letter from a maple sugar supplier. The man admitted he bought five barrels of brown sugar before maple syrup production, saying the law would make him do right.
The New York Press notes sailors give ships colorful nicknames such as Muriel to Mer ry Hell and Jaw Jaw to the Georgia. Other vessels receive playful monikers including Billy Penn for the Pennsylvania and Papa George for the Washington.
Two young women reunite and gossip about a marriage to a wealthy widower. One asks if he is older and a war veteran. The other corrects her, noting he did not serve in the Spanish or Civil War. The dialogue hints at wide age difference and historical context.
Kansas City Journal reports a playful comparison stating Washington's monument at 555 feet could not be reached if eggs from 50 counties in the state were stacked, noting 64 counties yet to hear from and a hypothetical monument 221,882 times taller than the Washington shaft.
A Wilkes Barre nurse testifies Postum Food Coffee substitute improves headaches indigestion and milk flow in mothers. She notes benefits after two weeks and urges proper boiling 15 to 20 minutes before serving with cream. Read The Road to Wellville for more.
A 1907 letter from Battleford Saskatchewan explains new Canadian Land Regulations allowing a family member to file for another’s homestead with a $10 fee per entry. Gerts describe thriving western settlement with crops, stock, rail projects, and growing towns, urging industrious readers to relocate. Harry and the father recount crossings of the Saskatchewan, railway surveys near their farm, and a hopeful future with a railroad at their door.
A Spanish thinker notes rivers and their inhabitants are made for wise contemplation. The piece promises to compare rivers and fish and share observations gathered while sitting on a flowery riverbank.
A drug advert declares deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from P F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh not cured by the remedy and urges readers to send for circulars.
The Appian Way, Rome to Brundisium, was only 15 feet wide. It took 70 years from start to finish to complete this great military thoroughfare of the Roman world.
In Manchester a handsome bachelor faced nine teasing women from Seonaine for not marrying. Each woman voted from a hidden ballot claiming the man should remain single. The nine ballots all declared the same verdict that the friendship ends and the women vow not to speak to him again, as reported by The Tatler.
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