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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1914
Page
3
The Lawrence Thimane Society hosts its regular monthly meeting tomorrow evening August 18 at Route 25. Fraternal Aid and Ladies races are planned for the annual picnic at Marvin's Grove. Entries for girls and ladies races are filling as preparations begin.
The page blends an ad style skin claim with a wide crop of social notes from Kansas and Lawrence. It includes a fashioning promise of wrinkle reduction, a long list of party guests at a Kansas home, a birth announcement for a daughter, and brief wedding news in Topeka area society columns.
Arthn Rankin Millard Hudson and Frank Hudson camp at Cameron's Bluff for bana weeks while Prof W J Baumgartner leads twenty biology students on a study trip. They lived in tents, used boat trips for material gathering, and built laboratories over the water for work. Edith Bideau missing word from Chanute heard. family concerned as war begins.
A string of social notes records visits and travel: Allen of Kansas City spent time in Lawrence. H. Beck of Galdfiard Nevada visited sister Mrs. Carter in Kansas City this morning with Mrs. Carter and Gerald Carter. Miss Ross Carter and others accompany. Miss Fthel McCox left Fairbury for Topeka region. Mrs. Tom Veatch of Kansas City visited her mother Mrs. A. Weaver. Miss Bess Lawrence returned to work at Swedish Hospital in Kansas City after a visit with Ralph Lawrence. Mrs. F C Wenrich and Christina visited Mrs. J. A. Copple at Eudora. Leo Bozell, former student and now assistant city editor at the Omaha News, was in town yesterday. Mrs. Frank Yeomans and children Frances and Janet returned to Readira after visiting Mrs. Farcome.
The column records numerous short notices of residents traveling to Whitehall Topeka or Kansas City for visits and events. Names include Miss Navey Longenecker Mrs Ella Lenwenecker Mr and Mrs Newnan and others. Several families report returning home from trips, while district residents remodel schools and install new sidewalks and plan monthly gatherings at Lake View.
Cyrus Townsend Brady presents The Ring and the Man featuring Broadway actor Bruce McRae with special piano and pipe organ music. Scene from the Ring and the Man showcased for audiences in the period noted.
A fragile typeset notice details playground rotations led by Miss Ruby Clapham and Miss Elizabeth Morrow for Lat Frente colored and white children in Lawrence. It lists days for Chillie South Park and Woodlawn grounds with staff names and closures, plus a local charity note on sand play, picnics, and a Texas Wonder kidney remedy ad.
The Harvest Home picnic returns to Lecompton on August 27 and 28 with a good program planned by the entertainment committee. Speakers are expected, stage performances arranged, and a hall game is planned, inviting everyone to attend. Stenographer and bookkeeper careers are noted for local opportunity at Lawrence Business College.
A compact ad bulks out price tags and items including soap bars, toothpaste and detergents, candles and tea, baking powders, cocoa, tea, beans, tomatoes, corn and peas, green beans, wax beans, and baking soda in one spot. Markets a 10 bar Soap selection and a 1 lb baking powder can, with multiple brands and unit prices.
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