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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1927
Page
5
Lawrence residents hosted a birthday dinner for Mrs. H R Lindenberger with family guests from Lawrence and Kansas City. Engagement announced for Ruth Kennedy and Ralph King, both KU graduates. Midland Rural club meeting featured flower talks and contests. Various church, bridge and golf happenings noted, along with the Stanwix reunion attendance and other local society items.
Mrs. C. R. Anderson is expected back the latter part of the week from Kansas City where she has been visiting her daughter Mrs. F. C. Cochrane for the past few weeks. Dr. Forrest C. Allen will leave.
A parade of residents and visitors noted in Lawrence and Kansas City daily life. Robert Newman plans a two day Rock Island business trip while Mrs. Cochrane and Miss Wilma May visit Kansas City. Melvin Thornhill returns to Lawrence, heads to Protection after Mayo Hospital stay. Mrs. John Bunn family vacationing at Yellowstone. Miss Julia Johnson recovering after operation at Lawrence Memorial. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson visit Lawrence, plan a short stay. Mrs. Shultz embarks on two month trip to Columbus New York and Pennsylvania. brother J. M. Dick dies in Canal Winchester. Numerous other locals travel to Kansas City Topeka and surrounding areas for visits and respite. The 75th anniversary agricultural convention is noted along with British fisheries and a large shoe industry advertising push.
An unsigned New York column argues for careful grooming and etiquette in public life. It weighs dangers of head turning over imperfect nails or bad breath, favors natural nail polish, modest makeup, and weekly hair washing to project health and steady charm. It notes women face stricter grooming expectations than men.
Believed to be the best blank ever arranged for keeping the record or forebears may now be secured at fifteen cents a copy or two copies for twenty five cents at the Journal-World office. These blanks were made not for profit but to aid in keening family history.
The F A U band under Walter Rigdon will perform seven numbers tomorrow evening at South Park. The program includes marches waltzes fox trots and selections such as Arabia Alford Shadowland Gilbert Espana Waldteufel Overture The Fairy Lake Auber Foxtrot At Sundown Donaldear The Glue and Greyvery Reflection from the Opera The Rainbow Girl Hirschi March Gloria Loser.
Local officials in Lawrence urge families to prepare three blanks for each child to preserve genealogical records for future generations. The city health department advises typhoid vaccination for all not yet immunized, offering clinic hours at Solty Hall from 11 to 12, to curb a recent case and prevent an epidemic as the school season nears.
Funeral services for Mrs. C. V. Eskridge wife of former Kansas lieutenant governor Eskridge will be held in Emporia Friday afternoon after her death in Los Angeles last Saturday.
On a trip to the East Mr and Mrs I C Stevenson plan to leave today for Pennsylvania visiting Stevensons native county and boyhood home near Siliper y Rock and Newcastle. They will be gone two weeks. Euryances, the pastry king of ancient Rome, used his tomb as an advertisement with a tombstone shaped like a giant cake. To climb the Himalayas next year the Italian section of the Al-
A vintage tip promotes mixing juice from two lemons with White to soothe sunburn and clear freckles and discolored skin. The prepared lotion claims to whiten skin, last through the season, and be gentle on the face neck arms or hands.
Fragmentary text indicates a plan or ordered action related to a census in Turkey with a directive to stand all at home for 24 hours. References to transportation, telephones, and stores being idle or closed suggest a general shutdown or blackout. Names and precise details are unclear.
Catalog snippet lists McCallum Square Heel and Heavy Stocking styles with four inch lisle tops and hems, offering a range of colors at prices from 1.65 to 1.95. Includes 1918 heavy service weight tocking and 1921 silk chiffon for streets or evening wear at 1.95.
A catalog style listing describes Tre Zur 55 Lightweight service hose with a four inch lifle hem priced at 1.65 dollars. An all silk chiffon hose in desirable shades with a pointed heel priced at 1.95 dollars. Number 75 is an all silk service hose with a pointed heel at 1.95 dollars.
The store highlights a pure silk number at 1.35 and two semi fashioned numbers priced at 1.00 each. One is a service and the other an all silk chiffon. the trio forms a low end line with the same guarantee as the higher priced items.
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