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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1917
Page
6
A consumer reports indigestion and excess gas after sour foods. The piece notes remedies like Diapepsin and emphasizes avoiding fear while enjoying preferred dishes. The tone resembles a health column urging practical dietary caution.
One hundred fifty delegates expected for the state Y W C A conference to be held Friday through Sunday at the university. Miss Anna Gittens predicts enrollments over fifty by Friday with programs at Myers Hall, round tables on committee work, campus tours, and a Sunday address by Mrs Reed McClure on Opportunities for Christian Service in the Present Crisis. Allen's Foot-Ease ad promotes antiseptic powder for feet.
Fall Leaf reports numerous Lawrence visits including Mr. and Mrs. Jay Cooper and Mrs. James McCabrin. Families like Tornadon Leger and Ziegler-Koerner members share time with relatives. Marie Vitt on sick list. Edna Meyer seen in Eudora. Adolph Tornidden reelected at school meeting.
Mrs. Wm Tornadon visited during the fall leaf season. Mesars A M Riley and St Kindred were Kansas City visitors. Mabel and Eugene Norris of Bonner Springs visited relatives here. J George Vale came in Saturday. A group went motoring Sunday afternoon, including Misses Millie Snapp Nellie Abbott Eva Snapp Alice Koerner Alice Kasherger and brothers Koerner Edmund Louis and Albert Kashberger, Mrs Seth Kindred and von Durland visited Mrs Geo Vale Sunday. James McCabrin was a Lawrence visitor Saturday. Alice Koerner stayed Sunday night with Millie and Eva Snapp. John Kasberger and daughter Mildred spent Sunday in Lawrence. Ooo Linwood on.
The regular W C T U meeting in the Watkins Bank Building featured devotionals led by Mrs Chamney and a talk by Dr Naismith on soldier life at Eagle Pass. New members were added bringing total to 122 as plans for play and youth work in Lawrence were discussed. Communion service announced for April 22 at Second Methodist.
Charles Cridza, serving with the Kaaba Corps, describes a mid air clash between a German plane and a French observation balloon. He recalls anti-aircraft fire, a balloon explosion in flames, two observers parachuting to land, and German 77 rounds found unexploded near the canton. He notes heavy bombardments, gas cloud casualties, and his day visiting a 75 battery and a hillside outlook.
An old advertisement claims deafness results from a blocked Eustachian tube and inflamed mucous, noting one cure via a nasal remedy. It promises $100 for cases of deafness caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cures and invites readers to request a free circular from the Toledo Ohio company.
Caroline B Stinson born Boston June 2 1828 of Puritan ancestry moved to Illinois at age two last of eight siblings with sister two years older dying at eighty nine. Educated at Monticello Female Seminary and Oberlin College taught two years then married Rev George W Stinson born New Hampshire who studied at Oberlin Theological Seminary.
A fragmented early 20th century advertisement collage promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pepto Iron Pills as remedies for anemia nervous conditions and gland swellings. It mentions locations Iowa Massachusetts Missouri Kansas and Lawrence with family moves and a death notice, plus space for fossils hunting and humane worker training.
Barney Oldfield the world famed auto racer spent thirty minutes in Baldwin on a San Francisco to Indianapolis wager to cover the distance in ten days. He drove a Packard Twin Six with a relief driver and a machinist aboard and stopped for generator work and fuel.
Mrs W A Demeritt hosted the Belvoir Wednesday Afternoon Club on April 11 with members and visitor Mrs Charley Kampschroder in attendance. The group enjoyed fancy work and refreshments as rain paused the evening prayer meeting.
An item touts Freezone a ether based remedy created by a Cincinnati man. Apply a few drops to corns and calluses to relieve pain and loosen hard skin with no irritation. Buy a small bottle from drug stores for a few cents and look for the yellow label.
Weekly snippets list residents visiting relatives, travels to Akron and Westphalia, social calls in Concordia and Baldwin, car purchases, and a police probe into a forced entry in the senate naval affairs committee room. Also mentions Prof. Colin Alexander’s hospital discharge and war news.
Advertisement touts Musterole as a remedy for rheumatism and related ailments. It promises a gentle glow and cooling comfort after application, claiming to loosen stiff joints and muscles without blistering skin.
A classic advertisement extols California Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting gentle laxative for children and adults. It claims to cleanse stomach and bowels without griping, notes tongue coating as a sign to give a dose, and warns buyers to avoid counterfeits and buy the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company.
Public auction to be held at a farm located 534 miles northeast of Perry and four miles north of Williamstown, with Oskaloosa to the southwest, Kun. The notice outlines sale of property at the disclosed farm site.
Auction set for April 26 at 10 a.m. offering three registered Duroc sows one red Duroc boar twenty two sows eligible to register by May 10 and thirty five gilts by May 20 terms require eight percent interest from date and bankable notes no removal until terms are met auctioneers H V Stone and C S Kathen Farmers State Bank clerk at the office
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