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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
6
A compact recap of a scattering of oddities and quips from Western Kansas World H and GIVLER columns. It riffs on royalty and politics, finance, social satire, and curious anecdotes from diverse locales, including references to King Peter, Japan, Austria, Russia, and New York society, with light humor and mixed news flotsam.
Chicago federal court appoints Frederick M. Blount and Albert D Currier as receivers for Zion City and its industries after a Dec 1 order to show cause why Dowie should not be adjudged bankrupt. Receivers plan a $1,000,000 fund while Zion assets, including lace and other enterprises, are brought under court supervision. Dowie's rise from evangelist to self styled Elijah the Restorer is recapped, with details of litigation, financing, and the town’s rapid growth and reliance on followers.
A North Missouri paper asks who is happier the man with 100000 or the man with seven daughters. A reply favors the man with seven daughters, saying he is content with enough while the moneyed man always wants more. Glaciers vanish as Greenland ice melts faster than formed, Jacobshaven glacier edge retreating eight miles since 1850 and thinning twenty to thirty feet.
In sixty years whisky per person declined from two and a half to one and a fourth gallons. In forty years beer per person rose from under two to more than seventeen gallons, showing shifting tastes and alcohol consumption.
A Connecticut woman credits diet and Grape-Nuts with reversing years of digestion and heart trouble and constant fear of death. She reports improved strength, weight, and stamina, walking ten miles daily and avoiding medicines since starting Grape-Nuts about a year ago. She notes feeling younger and plans long-term health ahead.
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