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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1909
Page
3
A garbled Kansas newspaper fragment from October 1 1908 includes local notices and social items. It mentions medical product claims Dr Kix New Life Pills and Dr Shoop Health Coffee, plus community names like Vernon Kedick Barber & Son and Topeka visitors. The piece also highlights motorbike ads and local chatter about meetings and visits in nearby towns.
Miss Sidney Clapp of Wichita a Well esley senior earns a Wellesley college scholarship for exceptional academic work during the past two and a half years. The honor, announced at chapel, reflects the college’s high standards and loyalty to intellectual excellence. Mrs. L W Clapp will join in New York during Miss Clapp’s Eastern vacation.
The document combines a 1909 delinquent tax notice from Douglas County with biographical details of Matt H Potter born 1840 in Willow Grove New Jersey. It outlines lands bid off for 1904 taxes, redemption deadlines, and actions by the Board of County Commissioners. The piece also recounts Potter’s Civil War service, Navy duty on the New Ironsides, life in Lawrence Kansas, family details, and death after Bright’s Disease with relatives attending his funeral.
Kansas Sunday school workers will gather in Topeka for the 37th annual convention in the first week of May. The event aims to be one of the association’s largest, with county turnout across Hutchinson area lines. Two Santa Fe coaches will carry delegates from the county, with arrangements for lodging, entertainment, and city visits to be announced shortly.
Real estate transfers include Arrabella P Barber widow of St Louis to Oliver P Barber for 3683.62 with undivided 4 interest in NWY 13 13 18 and three acres from Jess 3 acres. Baldwin to W T Busby and wife for 3000 with 45 acres NW of SE 27 14 20. Chalkley to John W Lee for 2000 Lots 11 to 18 in ME central subdivision North Lawrence. Quit claim: Hugh Blair and wife to Olympia Brown Willis for 51 Lots 11 to 18 in NE Central Subdivision North.
A fragmentary 19th century advertisement collage touts Dr King's New Discovery for coughs and lung disease and Ely's Dream Balm and Pink Pain Tablets. It references Barber & Son druggists, Shoop's Restorative, Foley's Honey and Tar, and local recital events at Cable Hall with The Cosmopolitan School of Music and Dramatic Art and Heinze Musical Club.
Auctioneer W. E. Nevin offers household furniture sales at 923 Louisiana street with guarantee of satisfaction and contact options Home 747 2 Bell 145 2. E Jorgensen Prop advertises new and secondhand furniture buying selling and exchanging at 644 Mass BL. Blacksmithing shoeing wagon work all guarded. A Messer at 312 Mass St Mear Park Grocery O Collins general contracting and building services. Francisco Todd handles carriage painting rimming and baggage. Vermont Street address S12314. Sale items include novelties suites and articles sold for cash or on payments.
Miss Margot Glyn, daughter of Mrs Elinor Glyn of Three Weeks fame, is about 10 years old and recovering from a severe typhoid fever. The illness kept her confined to her mother's New York home, delaying Mrs Glyn's literary work to care for her daughter and delaying publication of Elizabeth until May.
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