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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1906
Page
4
The page highlights local businesses offering meat markets groceries gas appliance services and plumbing tin work and harness trade. It notes Easter chick sales at Wolf and prices and features obituaries for Emanuel Flory and J W Sherwood with funeral arrangements and burial details. It also references brand popularity of cigars and liquor in Lawrence.
The Queen Esther girls of the Methodist church plan a Saturday event at Starkweather's store featuring colored eggs candy eggs deviled eggs and egg salad. The Lawrence ton Works advertises buying scrap iron with special prices for cast iron. A local booster praises Col Harris for the Democratic nomination for governor, asserting his high esteem.
Bank and personal loan offers with low rates and flexible payments. Registration books close at 9 pm voting eligibility discussed for primaries and 1904 or later registrants. First Lutheran Church services noted with baptisms and Easter plans. Owner selling a 5 room Vermont street house with barn well and sewer, tradable for farm property.
Advertisements and notices list gas fittings by The Ohio Natural Gas Supply House and praise rural route improvements in Lawrence. A Baker University entertainment notice notes Ora torio Creation performances April 11 to 16, with Miss Gertrude Messier and Mrs Blanche Lyons helping.
Barteldes defeated Kuhoe in the regular tournament with a total of Fol2 and a high team score of 503 by Barteldes. Snedicke scored 500 as Kuhne’s squad rallied to 20u overall and 46 by Kuhne.
A vintage ad touts bottled spring fragrance shaped like fine perfumes as a summer gift and notes an Eastman Kodak film offer starting at $2. It also mentions eye dyes in powders tablets or transfer form.
Markets by Wire reports livestock pricing across Kansas City Chicago and Chicago futures. Beef steers, sows, cows and heifers show varied bids with steadiness noted. hogs and calves quoted with mixed gains and losses. wheat and corn futures listed for May and July delivery.
Ordinance orders grading curbing and paving Hancock Street and Oread Avenue in Lawrence with four inch concrete and brick paving, limestone curb, thirty foot width, to be paid by assessments over ten years at five percent interest. Assessments tied to lot frontage. valued by three disinterested residents. Approved April 10, 1907.
City of Lawrence establishes the east and west sidewalk lines on Oread avenue between Lee Street and Hancock Street at thirty feet from the center line. The ordinance repeals conflicting provisions and takes effect after publication. Approved April 30 1908 by Mayor J A Kealer with City Clerk F D Brooks attesting. See Rowlands Stevenson for wallpaper. Also a Chicago accident report notes four injured two fatally when a motorman struck pedestrians at Wabash and Adams streets.
An American wallpaper man explains that England and Germany adopt many of the latest U S styles, while the home market releases almost all new patterns yearly. Dealers rotate designs, with old styles fading as next season’s books, spanning hundreds of pages, shape color blends, and prompt orders for a fresh slate. He notes designers and workers prepare for the new season starting January, keeping pace with evolving coloring and patterns.
A collage of local notices lists goods at Rowlands Stev anson's and Achning's with odds about paint and butter choppers. Social events include the Elka installation banquet for sixty and a Nineteenth Century club gathering at 929 Connecticut street.
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