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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1906
Page
3
A historical ad extols Dr Pierce Favorite Prescription as a tonic boosting heart and strength for women and mothers. It claims to calm nerves, aid sleep, relieve anxiety, and treat female weakness, irregularities, and pelvic issues, while noting harmless ingredients from American forests and endorsements by doctors and druggists.
An article explains that the best tasting oranges come from nearly sterile soil and warns against overfertilizing with nitrogen. It contrasts old muck methods with modern chemical fertilizers and cites guidelines to balance nutrients for thin rinds, sweetness, and fruit size while avoiding malady from overfertilization.
A New York Son discussion outlines elegant calling etiquette for ladies and their footmen or chauffeurs in private carriages and motor vehicles. It details steps from alighting, greeting, to receiving instructions, emphasizing deliberation and formality. It also notes Americans abroad, citing a Congo census showing a diverse expatriate population and listing nationalities.
The article cites G Frederick Wright noting rapid land level changes in the northern hemisphere within about ten thousand years tied to glacial weight and rebound. It links Ice Age ice mass to regional subsidence, global redistribution of land and sea levels, and extinction patterns across North America Europe and Central Asia with implications for early human civilization in the Euphrates valley.
Lawrence city council, April 2 1908, approved a resolution to grade curb and pave Henry Street and intersecting streets between Neary and Mississippi Main. Paving to use vitrified brick with sand foundations, limestone curb, thirty feet wide, financed in ten annual installments. Frank D Brooks, City Clerk.
Advert describes dangers of mercury based remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Claims internal use cures catarrh by settling blood and mucous membranes, with testimonials and price 75 cents per bottle. Uses period tone and medical claim language.
A damaged OCR parcel shows a local notice in a small community, with partial dates and names unreadable. It references a legal process or filing in a named ward and county, but critical details are garbled, leaving only fragmentary hints of parties and action.
A Maine worm business grows by breeding and selling earthworms for fishing. Carl Beers of Bangor imported Belgian and Indian worms, selling to Boston jobbers for 75 cents a pound and to locals at ten cents a dozen. Sidney Cook, inventor of diving gear, credits a violet light trick learned from Indigenous practices for his success, linking luminescence to worm behavior and bait efficiency.
A fragmentary account outlines Navajo beliefs and practices linked to protection from danger. It mentions ritual acts with feathers and corn, the roles of family and home spaces, and cautions about spirits, magic, and remedies tied to ancestral regions and gestures.
A fragmentary paraphrase discusses medical attire and solemnity as a valued trait in medicine. It mentions Alan and ambiguous remarks about illness and ambrosis, with critical tone toward open acknowledgment and investigation of leads. The text reads as a garbled, satirical snippet from an old British Medical Journal context.
The excerpt lists common cup measures for ingredients such as butter sugar and flour, noting that butter and sugar have different weights per cup. It gives approximate cupfuls for egg butter shortening and bread dough and includes remarks on density and how full a cup should be for various substances.
A scattered set of kitchen and cleaning hints covering tin and metal treatments with lime or carbolic acid, camera cleaning tools, soap blends, curtain care with corn meal, and a Bruns Jally style prune jelly recipe with gelatin, sugar, lemons and whipped cream guidance.
A damaged OCR recipe describes making orange pudding by soaking gelatine in water then dissolving it in a hot bath. It calls for angar atir until melted and mixing with juice from six large oranges. Pulp, peel, and rind are included, with possible substitutions of lemon. The mixture is beaten until light and poured into moulds to chill.
In an action by Jaker Tiltore Clark and Charles Clark as plaintiffs against defendants Mife Jasper maker Kileha Thomas Baker Mary F. Binker and Riise ker, the court orders sale of property in Douglas County Kansas. The described tract, valued at 60.60, is part of the northeast quarter of section 14, range 14, in the timeframe noted, with sale proceeding announced by J.B. Woodward.
A jumble of testimonial lines tout Foley's Kidney Cure for kidney and bladder issues, Electric Bitters for stomach and liver woes, Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds, Backlined Armie Seize for piles, and Wood's Norway Pine Syrup. Includes various names and local shop references, plus a May notice for Dick Brothers.
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