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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1913
Page
5
A call to readers of the Tr . Jourba Weld to cooperate with the society reporter in making the Social World department complete and entertaining. All items should be sent or phoned in by 2:00 PM, Bell Phone 16 or Home Phone 136.
Luncheon hosted by Miss Hannah Mitchell featured pink rose centerpiece and guests including Misses Eberle Greenlees Rankin Emery Moore Gibb Batterson and Mrs Lawrence Spalding Tow Burthh Caldwell Informal bridge and dinner plans noted plus a silver tea ball gift and upcoming nuptials of Vivian Cox and Elmer Thurber in nearby towns
Hutchinson visit marked by social calls as residents travel to Kansas City and Leavenworth. Miss Lillian Gerkin heads to Kansas City, while Miss Caroline Newson plans Chicago travel with relatives. Numerous Mrs and Mr names appear for visits, trips, and gatherings around Topeka and Kansas City. A funeral notice for Paulie Creek and Degree of Honor meeting instructions are included along with auto muffler advisories near Kentucky and Warren streets.
A mixed set of notices lists rental offers including furnished rooms on Kentucky Street and a six room house, pasture for rent, and real estate loans. It also advertises for sale items such as a large barn, a Maxwell motor cycle, and Jersey cattle. Job notices include a stenographer, delivery wagon driver, and experienced sales lady, while Perkins Loan & Trust Co. appears in financing notes. Contact details and local businesses Sherman and Savoy Hotel appear in the fragment.
A resident recalls a household where garbage is spread on bread as a makeshift food routine while illness, including typhoid in a baby, spreads. Neighbors discuss dire conditions, hunger, and the impact of sickness on a family, reflecting a troubling urban living situation and public health concern.
The readable fragments mix literary quotes with stray phrases about luck and pluck, mentions of Austin Dobson, electricity healthful, and partial advertising lines for O'Brien & Co and Wiedemann's. It reads like damaged notes from a newspaper page containing ads and stray aphorisms about time, love, and products.
Local note reports Professor Charles Dunlap traveled to Kansas City this morning. A separate personal update mentions Mrs. Tae Hutt spending the day in an unspecified activity.
Readable note states another shipment of White's Wonder Worker has just arrived at Mr Colloch's Drug Store. The line hints at restocking and availability for customers seeking the product. No further details provided in the fragment.
A scrambled OCR fragment compiles remarks on speech and humor from figures like Rather Weill Pitt and Ambrose Crossiers, with stray lines about Pyrography wood burning and jokes about babies. The text reads as garbled quotations and incomplete attributions with fragmented dialogue.
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