Fall and Spring Planting Debates at County Horticultural Meet
The November fruit growers meeting in the county discussed fall tree planting versus spring planting. Speakers urged care with soil moisture, root protection, and proper timing, while others warned of cold snaps harming late plantings. Committees were named for the State Horticultural Society meeting in Lawrence and local event plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. C. Griesa
N.P. Demisg
W. E. Barnes
Vinland
Mr. Barnes
State Horticultural Society
Plasket
B. F. Smith
G. W. Mafflt
B.F. Smith
Barnes
Barker
Salina
Lawrence
Joseph Savage
A. H. Griesa
Wm. Plasket
W. N. Barnes
N. P. Deming
Wm. Brown
Samuel Reynolds
G. W. Maffit
Mr. Whitcomb
A. H. Gries
F. Smith
PITH AND POINT Cartoon Exchange Peculiarity
Comic exchange between Cholly and Miss Moneyful ends with a playful pun about a puppy. The Philadelphia Record quotes Tommys joke about a lion and rhinoceros, followed by Mr Figg’s quip about a politician with thick hide. The items capture local humor and character style.
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Cholly
Tattooing as a social science cross section of criminals and outcasts
The Archives d Anthropologie Criminelle surveys tattooing among criminals vagabonds and the insane across Italy France and Germany. It contests atavist links between crime and tattooing and notes external factors influence a man s tendency to be tattooed while marking that colored tattoos aid criminal identification though not classifying character.
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Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle
Italy
France
Germany
Curling the Hair in Fashion and Forehead Styling
The piece discusses hair trends advocating modest middle parts over tight curls at the forehead. It notes that only exceptionally pretty foreheads suit straight back styles, praising the quaint bourgeois tone of the era's fashion writing. It adds a fragment mentioning Washington and a paving project.
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New York
St. Louis Republic
Paris
Washington x
Decidedly Different Windups Over Civic Tensions
A fragmentary item mixes a Huntaville post office scene with a violent exchange between a janitor and a teen suitor over an engagement to Evangeline. It shifts to a humorous waiter joke and then to a military note praising heliographic signaling by the U S Army, citing Miles and Geronimo era uses.
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Huntaville
Evangelice
Dean
Evangeline
United States
Detroit Free Press
United States Army
Signal Corps
Pike's Peak
Denver
Miles
Geronimo
Mirrrors
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Dr . Sams
Bergman
Ens
Eldridge Dee Ik
Lawrence Geo. A. Banks
Garner
Eldridge House
S.H. Sheldon
Notary Public
City and Farm
Ofice
Lawrence Ks
Farmers
Chris Epley
Black Horse Harness Shop
Geo. H. Situ
Gocklin & Witt
Mass
Street
Russell & Metcalf
Bear of Merchants Bank
Gazette
Peach
Barteldes
Beal & Gooding
A. L. Lexie
A. Guathant
Hall
R. Williams
W.a.harrie
Winters
J. W. Sparr
L L. Moore
E. Benson
W. Howell
Pital
Vermont Street
Lawrence House
Kuhn
Massachusetts Street
Wm. T. Sinclair
Mass. Street
Lawrence, Kas
Telco
A.J. Griffin
Lawrence Kas
Nut’l, Hank, Winthrop, St. Branch
Bolles
Eldridge House Corner
L. Williams
Mass Street
Pierson’s Mill
Gulbertson & Thobur
Iman
Warren Street
Santa Fe Round House
C. W. Smith
C. J. Eriksen
Black Jack Near
The
Douglas County Sunday School Association
Jas. L. Francis
Alderman
Chicago
King
Barber Bros Drugstore
N. Y. Sun
Reval
U.S. Gov't
Prown
Waller
Brown
Puck
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