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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
4
A jumble of political chatter from Washington and Kansas reads of a possible Nixon bid for president and the mock slogan Nixon Nixon. The dry law and St Joe workhouse issues are noted along with presidential primary procedures and fashion talk about gingham auxiliaries to match overall clubs.
The piece argues a sales plan to fund soldier bonuses may raise more than enough money, while taxes once aimed to meet precise needs now chase large sums. It notes the switchmen strike costs, rail stoppages hurting workers and industries, and the broader losses that follow as prosperity returns unclear if workers bear the burden. It laments working men’s apparent indifference to financial harm to themselves and families.
A reflection on publicity firms that push paid ideas or movements, often disguising propaganda as news stories to gain free coverage. The piece notes constant attempts to plant favorable material through press associations and urges newspapers to heighten vigilance against such deceptive tactics.
A fragmented OCR note hints at a legislative push covering wide publicity rules. It references debate over how much public attention should be directed by laws and how such measures may shape media coverage.
A community demonstration yesterday showed tractors boosting efficiency and yields on Douglas county farms. The piece notes the farmer’s evolving role, needing mechanized knowledge, crop rotation, and pest control to stay profitable amid rising costs and new agri tech.
Canada has produced few per sonages more clever and inter esting than Bliss Carman poet author and journalist whose health has led him to the Saranac Lake region of New York. He enters his tenth seat today born April 14 1861 in Fredericton NB educated in New Brunswick the Collegiate Institute and University of New Brunswick later Edinburgh University. He studied law briefly then turned to writing becoming editor at several publications and later focusing on literary work. His verse began with Low Tide at Crank Peninsum and many volumes followed. Notice to Water Consumers In order to clean the water main on Chuses street from 15th to 24st street the water will be shut off of Massachusetts Street from 8 to 3 Friday April Toth. Lewis A Quigley Supt.
Colgate's Cashmere Bond Uct soap Brown Windsor and Coleo special sale announced at McCulloch drug store with cakes priced at 10 cents.
A Washington speech recounts a call for terminating the Board of Ordnance and Fortification funding after decades with no authorization. It notes a 58 thousand dollar fiscal estimate and unspent treasury balance, plus mentions various officials and a sequence of historical notes.
A fragmented note recalls madams and inventors with dates including Pompadour’s era in Paris and a lime inventor in Dublin, plus a New York born writer and a Lon- don figure. It mentions Andrey Johnson succeeding Lincoln and Britain’s treaty ratification, all in a jumbled reverie of anniversaries.
The Midland Hi Y program, organized by Howard Boil secretary of the City Y M C A, will feature four numbers including an instrumental quartet a pantomime a string trio and vocal quartet and a final segment with specialties and glee club numbers. A notice at McNish lists distilled water by the bottle with phone 198 and a bicycle ad by Hanna.
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