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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1919
Page
3
A bizarre headline records a shift as the feared pest or obstacle is described as aiding a local plans or schemes, signaling a change in power dynamics and the potential for new agricultural or land use outcomes.
American farmers, led by bankers like Ralph Van Vecthin, report rising farm mortgage principal payments as debt funds greater production. In Warren county Iowa, owners net $212 while tenants net $725 after costs, with farm debt growing as land value and ownership rise. Iowa farms expand, crop returns surge, and farmers increasingly purchase land to secure future profits.
An old fashioned health ad promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to restore energy and clear eyes by purifying blood. It claims to prevent influenza, improve skin, and back disease with a tonic available as tablets or liquid. trial packages offered for 10 cents from the Buffalo treatment house. A Kansas reader testimonial cites scrofula relief after fifteen years.
D L Spicer a Lawrence native and longtime US Army engineer veteran who served in six campaigns from Spanish American War through World War I and in France with the 2nd Engineers returns home after nineteen months abroad. He claims to have visited every country with American troops except South America and plans to resume life in Ellsworth with his brother Will Spicer. The note also mentions local ads and tennis plans at Lawrence Y M C A courts as spring arrives.
Lansing April 8 Officials say mere possession of intoxicating liquor is now a felony under Michigan's new prohibition statute. The act bans sale shipment delivery or possession with six months to two years imprisonment and up to $1000 fine, exempting druggists and others. The measure supersedes 1917 dry laws and follows a court ruling on search and seizure in related cases.
Dr B Clark Hyde files suit for 2.5 million dollars against the Kansas City Star alleging libel over quoted conversations among nurses at the Swope home after Col Thomas Swope death. Mrs Guy Mitchell and her son Frank visit Newton relatives as Mitchell is discharged from air service. Mitchell previously worked as a machinist at Newton Santa Fe shops.
Border cities along the Texas frontier grow as potential gateways for international drinkers if Prohibition widens. Despite talk of passport removals and new gambling venues, officials fear border traffic will persist. Mexican cantinas thrive while smuggling is checked, making mezcal scarce and expensive for Americans seeking liquor.
H. L. O'Neil of Black Jack traveled to Topeka yesterday for the Presbytery in session where he represents the Black Jack Presbyterian church.
The Young Women's Christian Association plans to establish industrial demonstration centers in ten large U S cities to apply wartime lessons on working girls under peaceful conditions. Mrs Leonora Z Mey, for Toyor, is noted in the report though some lines are incomplete.
Kan sas Telephone Company manager in Lawrence to solicit advertising for the upcoming Lawrence directory. McCulloch’s Drug Store repairs on two cameras sent to Eastman Co. for service. Lum bermen’s association of Texas held a three day Galveston convention. Sergeant Charlton to join Charlton Tpsurange after returning from France. Mrs C Egéus, Topeka school board member, set to retire after ten years. Twenty fifth anniversary of the Davidson theater fire in Bibwanker with nine lives lost.
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