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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
6
Fragmentary text lists lawyers and firms with unrelated items including insurance bonds and contact bits. Reads like a torn newspaper legal and business card snippet with names Bell Bishop Selig and address hints but no coherent event or notice details to summarize.
The piece discusses where tea drinking began, noting Prof King’s claim that Chinese people drank tea first as a sanitary measure by boiling water to prevent typhoid and later adding tea leaves for taste. Dr. R A Gortner challenges this sequence, suggesting tea’s typhoid prevention role arose after its broad Chinese adoption as a pleasant drink.
A fragmented grocery ad lists discounts on coffee beans Lima beans and Navy beans Oleo cheese peanut butter tea paper and cleaning items. Prices are given per pound by the pound bag or per item with many cents values and bulk quantities.
Cattle receipts totaled about 10 000 head on Monday at Kansas City stockyards the lightest for a Monday in two months. Feeder buyers boosted strength with packers showing interest, prime steers reaching 18 50 and good corn fed steers at 18 15, while hogs topped 19 00 with most sales around 17 75. Government meat intake limits and a proposed army beef carcass cap loom as catalysts for cattlemen.
Early hog bids reached up to 19.60 but packers bought little then. Eventually supplies were cleared with gains to 25 higher, best hogs around 19.10, stock pigs up 50, and 17.75 for top pigs. Sheep entries included 3 cars from Glenwood Springs with fat lambs at 17.75 and fat ewes at 13.65, native ewes up to 13, with lambs at 16 to 17 for westerns and higher for choice consignments.
Markets show a mixed tone with some prices steady while others drift. References to commodity levels include grain and produce figures with unclear figures quoted as $1060 and 21840. August records hint at August 15 activity and local market indices, with a cautious overall stance.
The text urges parents to educate about the supreme importance of home training to curb vice crime and poverty, arguing that mental and moral inferiority often starts at home and that early home education is key to solutions.
An Australian acacia known as the angry tree grows to about 20 feet, with a rapid growth form and a giant-century plant appearance. At sunset the leaves fold, twigs coil, and shoots show movement as the trees respond to heat and light.
A traveler recalls encounters with a South American shovel fish, noting its shovel-like snout and odd habit of jumping onto banks to dig bait for catching. The anecdote highlights the creature’s unusual behavior amid fishing lore.
Fragmentary OCR lists various meat items and prices including beef roast round steak shoulder steak hamburger steak pork roast pork chops pork steak and brisket. Also mentions bacon porterhouse steak loin steak and peanut butter with odd punctuation and stray numbers.
A note recalls that kerosene was first used for lighting in 1826, a milestone cited as an early development in illumination history.
The passage notes that girls often speak before thinking, urging more reflection to improve their words. It argues the issue is not intelligence but laziness in using the brain, and jokes that a hot temper wastes effort by seeking trouble rather than solutions.
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