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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1919
Page
2
A fragmentary notice shows a city drug store advertising special prices on kits and toiletry articles. It mentions national guardsmen and local merchants, with garbled text around names and events. The readable portion suggests a promotional shopping item with mixed vendor references.
Architects note that bricks and cement absorb moisture and swell. Dry baked bricks expand as they take in water, a garden pier once grew several inches, and cement joints can widen especially where bricks and cement meet. Homes can show visible gaps from such growth.
Wartime notes highlight luminous Jiminous paint for signaling in trench and field, with disks 2-3 inches to mark routes and deter friendly fire. The article also covers the Maid of Anzio statue misnomer, noting the sculpture’s youthful form and reinterpreted origin after a Greek statue was found at Nero’s villa and acquired by the Halk government.
A collection of light clippings includes Roger W. Babson quipping about labor dining in Washington and a punning exchange at a Washington dance about bran muffins. Other items note a church on Clinton Hill with wedding preparations and a street scene with observers, along with a marriage joke between Mrs Wilkinson and Mrs Jenkinson. The Republic of Panama marks its 400th anniversary as the oldest European settlement in the Americas.
A garbled society column lists visits and greetings among Horton residents. Names mentioned include Len Iee, J. OW. Gress, Mrs. Apathur, O. Aidger, Mr. and Mrs. Nobie Messer, Paloh, the Rewech and Piling families, the Honk family, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kan, Mr. and Mrs. Fimner Wilson, and many others. Items cover weekend visits, trips to Lawrence and Eudora, new babies, hospital consultations in St. Louis, and thanks for sympathy and floral offerings following a infant’s illness and death.
A London Times passage laments that medicine cannot perform miracles and praises mothers who sacrifice their own health to save their children. It notes that doctors neither avert illness nor replace maternal care, yet mothers endure extreme strain to shield their offspring from danger.
By agreement the women leaders in high society at Newport have greatly curtailed their formal entertainment programs this season due to the high cost of living.
A London newspaper notes that between fifteen and twenty thousand women are convicted of drunkenness annually within the metropolitan area. The statistic reflects ongoing social concerns and enforcement patterns in the capital.
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