Local notes mix road barricades and community blurbs
The Lawrence area reports a barricaded road off the fort trail not deterring traffic. A concrete mixer from Haskell Institute broke a left rear axle near the Journal World, with repairs underway. Picnic events, growing bicycle interest, Ottawa taxicabs, garage living experiments, Ft Sill artillery encampments, and reminiscences about 1894 beans appear alongside railway shipments, motor card travels, and police notices. Local figures include F C Lotz, Ideal Grocery, and Eli Dorsey post commander Guy Pettit.
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Haskell Institute
Journal World
Mud Creek
Potter Discovers Porcelain While Testing Heat Resistance
A potter experimenting with earths to endure continual heat discovers porcelain. An optician's boy repairing glasses imagines how porcelain lenses could be arranged for telescopes, hinting at practical lens uses.
Woolworths Saturday Seat Covers Sale
A fragment notes a Woolworths sale on auto seat covers priced at 15 cents. The notice mentions Saturday at 9 a m with a question why pay more.
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Woolworth’s
Rankin's Drug Store Ice Cream Pint or Quart Offer
Ice cream pint or quart, Rankin's Drug Store. Readable fragments indicate a sale or special offer at the local drug store with focus on the listed container sizes.
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Ice Cree
Quartet
Rankin’s
Drug- Store
Weekly Food Service Adds To Public Nutrition Knowledge
Housewives are urged to conduct simple home based research on nutrition with guidance from home economics experts. Steps include forming a small study group, choosing practical questions on buying, waste, and costs, and comparing outcomes to benefit families and contribute to dietetics literature. The piece notes vitamins and pigments in plant foods and cites J J Willaman on the unknown chemical nature of vitamins, suggesting leafy greens and yellow vegetables may be richer in vitamins.
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Florence Nesbitt
Chicago
J. J. Willaman
University of Minnesota
Balance in cooking and restraint in seasoning
The passage argues that restraint in seasoning is essential for both cooking and literature. It warns that over-seasoning harms the delicate dietary balance, while proper seasoning makes flavors allies. It emphasizes that even adults benefit from palate restraint for healthier eating.
Midland Notes on Local Visits and Events
Carrie Hunsinger spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mrs Winifred Thiry Lucille Sterling visited friends at Homewood Kansas The Grant township CoPAs officers were elected Wednesday evening Midland Grange will hold a picnic next Sunday at Baldwin Mrs Chas Husted aided Mrs Chester Spray of Perry caring for her two seriously ill children Leona Eberwein spent Tuesday night at the Hunsinger home
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Carrie Hunsinger
Winifred Thiry
Lucille Sterling
Homewood
Kansas
Grant, Township Co. P. A's
Midland Grange
Baldwin
Chas. Husted
Chester Spray
Perry
Leona Eberwein
Hunsinger
Secret of a Good Disposition and Health Promise
A health advice note praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women. It argues a strong disposition improves happiness and usefulness, warns fretfulness harms health, and cites letters from readers claiming restored health and happiness after use.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Parole Board Grants 26 of 82 Applications
Lansing August 18 The Skate Parole board at the state penitentiary granted 26 paroles from 82 applications presented. Warden M. T. Amline announced the results. Auto seat covers 15 cents Woolworth's Saturday 9 a m.
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Lansing
State Penitentiary
Fat Soluble Vitamin in Yellow Vegetables Noted
Dr H Steenbock of the University of Wisconsin states there may be a link between yellow coloring in some vegetables and the fat soluble vitamin A. The hypothesis is still under investigation.
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H Steenbock
University of Wisconsin
Flavors in Food Guide Digestive Aid and Palatability
Dr W W Skinner of the UC Bureau of Chemistry notes natural flavors derive from spices essential oils and plant parts. He urges studying full flavor sources from fruits seeds roots stems and leaves to craft inexpensive diets that are palatable and digestible. The text ends with a note that the wise cook seasons delicately and warns against highly spiced food.
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W. W. Skinner
UC. S. Bureau of Chemistry
Nature
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Lawrence
Fort
F. C. Lotz
Ideal Grocery
Ottawa
130Th
Ft. Sill
Okla
35Th Division
Hugh Means
Ottawa National Guard
Kaw Valley
Kansas City
Lauren Hunter
San Diego
California
Gus
Wahl
Garden City
Guy Pettit
Eli Dorsey
Legion
Connecticut Street
Peeper
R. F. Browning
Locust Street
C.C. Stewart
Fort Riley
National Guard
Rankin Drug Store
Regus
Patgfe
Ryzon
Homer L. Holt
Denver
Umbrella Rock
Lookout Mountain
Tenn
Midland
Tankin’s Drug Store
TI. Amline
Dr. Price
Price
Price Baking Powder Factory
Independence Boulevard
Rens
Say Otis Brewster
A. G
Opazel
Guy Otis Brewster
Brewster
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Swift
Swift & Company
U.S.A
Barney
Bill
Kelloge’s
Kellogg’s
W. K. Kellogg
Ron Copw
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