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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
4
The Journal World details subscription rates and office contact information for Lawrence Kansas readers. It carries editorial notes opposing speed violations on Kansas highways and praising McMaster for exposing oil price margins, while mentioning a government proposal to investigate gasoline prices and a projected report timing as oil prices shift.
Enthusiasm grows among philatelists for the new Irish Free State stamps. Designed by Millicent Girling, a 22 year old Irish art student and technical instructor in the Department of Agriculture, the series features a shamrock background with a shield of the provinces, Gaelic Ireland above, and the value below.
Major MacLean resigns as head of the Boys Industrial School at Topeka amid a clash with A. B. Carney head of the state board of administration. Paroled 48 boys spark dispute over policy and costs. Carney seeks records and accountability, while MacLean defends liberations and predicts former ward will succeed outside.
The Philadelphia chemist Mathew C Lea is honored on the centennial of his birth for foundational work in photography science. Vermont observes Bennington Day as a legal holiday statewide. Former Senator Chauncey M Depew, in the Berkshires, delivers his annual Lenox address on current times.
Death notice from Lawrence reports Miss Sarah A. Brown died in San Francisco from a paralytic stroke. Details on funeral arrangements are not given. An ice cream social and program is planned at Sunny Side schoolhouse on August 17. Miss Mildred Cutter departed for Fort Stanton New Mexico for a two week visit with friends. Mrs Hanna Lofgren and her daughter Hilda traveled to Kansas City this morning.
Health ad claims advise flushing both upper and lower bowels weekly with a glycerine buckthorn bark mix labeled Adlerika. It states Adlerika affects both bowels and removes poisons, helps with stomach gas in ten minutes, and is presented as an Excel Tent for obstinate constipation.
University players present The Truth by Clyde Fitch at the Little Theater in the law building. A standout amateur production with nineteen dramatic art students delivering capable performances under Prof. H. A. Shinn. Tonight at 7:45, free admission, capacity filled, some viewers peering through windows. Mrs. George Reed visits Springfield, Missouri for two weeks.
Miss Lucille Sampicy of Harding Grove Indiana describes a half year of itchy pimples spreading over her body and fingers. She reports relief and healing after using Cutiura Soap and Ointment for about a month.
Mrs I D McNeill returned from Atchison where she was summoned by her mother Mrs H C Stretton’s illness. She reports the mother is improving slowly. Caref Briquettés on track Kaw Valley Fuel Co Phone 219.
Edna Wallace Hopper touts her Youth Cream and related products noting her 82 years on stage and 40 years in the limelight. She claims the cream contains lemon and strawberry, offers skin softening whitening and smoothing benefits, and promises refunds if the first jar fails. Also offers Facial Youth White Youth Clay and Hair Youth with aBeauty Book included.
An ad warns that genuine Bayer aspirin tablets only come with Bayer on packages or tablets and lists uses from cold and headache to neuralgia and rheumatism. It notes unbroken packages with directions, twelve tablets in a box, and larger bottles sold by druggists, warning against imitation products.
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