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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1910
Page
8
Fred and Maud discuss George and his wife, noting they are now as one and that quarrels require two. The exchange reflects domestic dynamics and a humorous wedding or partnership sentiment.
Craig Biddle describes unclear betting on the Jeffries Johnson Reno fight with odds like two to four and a half and nine to six. He compares the confusion to a pair of girls tangled in a secret exchange about who told whom what.
An 19th century style advertisement offers a $100 reward for any catarrh cure Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot achieve. It cites F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo and endorsements from Walding Kinnan Marvin Wholesale Druggists. It describes internal use and mucous blood action and notes testimonials, price 75 cents, and urges Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A rural official laments fast cars slipping by unseen due to poor glasses. An advertisement quotes W. P. Schmitz, a Hinsdale Massachusetts veterinarian, praising Resinol Salve as a universal healing ointment for humans and domestic animals alike.
A judge questions a chauffeur about leaving a scene while the driver admits he would learn the man’s injuries by reading the daily papers. The exchange highlights a callous approach to an accident as the court probes intent and responsibility.
The piece notes Rookwood in Australia as the world's largest cemetery covering 2000 acres, with only 200 acres currently developed where about 100000 people of all nationalities have been buried.
The excerpt promotes using Red Cross Ball Blue to keep clothes white and suggests purchasing gas or grocers packages. It compares feminine waiting to a cat watching a rat hole and offers a health claim about Doctor Pierre’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation. It ends with a reflective quote about building character attributed to J. F. Ware.
Kansas City assignment judge William O. Thomas urges a Missouri law requiring sixty days of public engagement announcements before marriage licenses. He plans to raise the issue with circuit judges this fall and push for legislative action next January. He cites haste leading to regrettable marriages and court relief.
Chicago official W A Gardner testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission that the Chicago and North Western Railroad could pay dividends of 54 million dollars on 84 million capitalization and faced no bankruptcy threat if tariffs were not granted. He said the road sought higher tariffs only to swell undivided profits totaling 30 million dollars.
In Utica New York Vice President James Sherman lost in the Oneida county primary for 25 county delegates to the Republican state convention. The seventh ward gave the old guard 259 votes to 385 for the progressives, signaling Sherman may win only eight of 23 delegates and face Roosevelt for temporary state chairmanship.
President Taft presided over obsequies of the congressional pork barrel and urged Congress to end such measures. Speaking at the Ohio valley exposition he reiterated his last session pledge that he signed the last pork barrel bill regarding river and harbor improvements.
United States Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley, president of Aetna Life, is publicly charged at the Republican convention in Hartford with spending $60 000 of Aetna funds to influence legislation allowing capitalization of the company surplus over Governor Richard D. Hubbard’s vote.
Jersey City, N J Porter Chariton lost the opening skirmish in his bid to escape extradition for the confessed murder of his wife Mary Scott Charlton at Lake Como Italy. Judge Blair, before whom he was arraigned, declined to admit insanity and took the return application under advisement.
Across Marshall county farmers report a cattle disease causing sores in the mouth and sometimes nostrils and throat. Several animals have died from starvation as they cannot eat. Vets say contagion is unlikely and early care can save affected stock. The illness may stem from grazing on certain weeds or ragweed pollen amplified by heavy dew.
Plans for St. Luke's hospital in Wellington are set to begin with bids requested for an $18 000 building. The Topeka based Christ's Hospital Corporation will manage the facility with a $2 000 annual maintenance fund guaranteed for three years by E B Roser. The city seeks a special act to allow a yearly tax to fund free charity care.
A group of 15 faculty and student members recommends disbanding the Kansas State Normal literary societies. The Lyceum Literati Belles Lettres and Phylomethian groups would be dissolved and membership restricted to secondary course students.
Corporations doing business in Franklin County will pay taxes totaling 47,643 dollars and 18 cents. The county’s property valuation is 6,918,660 dollars, distributed among 22 corporations. Some small rural telephone lines contribute the smallest tax, amounting to 14 cents.
Rev. W. D. and Mrs. Shermerhorn, long known in Central Kansas, are returning from seven years as missionaries in Hyderahorn India due to Mrs. Shermerhorns illness. They left the field to seek care and rest.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis announces the Seventh International Congress on Tuberculosis to be held in Rome from September 24 to 30 1911 under the patronage of the Italian king and queen. An American committee of 100 will represent the United States with Prof. Vittorio Ascoli as secretary general. The event follows the 1908 Washington congress and aims to expand tuberculosis work as agencies multiply and funding rises, with about 15 200 000 expected to be spent on anti tuberculosis efforts in 1910.
A family moving to a suburb bought the largest watchdog from a German dogseller. Burglars entered the home while the big dog slept. the seller advised another small dog to wake the large guardian, highlighting a comic caution about security.
A satirical exchange reveals a family denying any avuncular relations and attributing their issues to a disease in the family line. The dialogue highlights social humor over lineage queries and conveys a sense of regional character.
A quote attributes that a soul filled with great ideas excels at small duties. The saying emphasizes value in daily tasks and humble service as a path to larger achievement.
The Veterans of ’56, an organization formed at Lawrence for those who arrived in Douglass County before 1859, held their twenty first annual reunion with about 150 attendees at the dinner and program.
Dickinson county old settlers reunion occurred at Enterprise with Judge O L Moore delivering the address and an automobile ride for county residents.
Mayor Hoyt and the Pittsburg city commission seek to enjoin issuing 300000 dollars in bonds for a new waterworks system after a suit filed in Fort Scott district court by former residents J. B. Smith and Fred H. Fitch now in Kansas City.
Mrs. John Weis, a farmer's wife near Salina, claims a local canning record by preserving 500 quart jars of peaches. The fruit, grown on the Weis farm, survived after being thought killed last spring, and the season produced a heavier crop than in years.
Axtell public schools opened with large attendance and the high school enrollment reached 79, the highest in its history. A summer completion added an assembly room for the high school and another room for the grades improving facilities.
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