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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1905
Page
4
Classified items reveal hiring drive at Boener Bros Cigar Factory and paint shop. Traders advertise coal contracts, perfumes with premiums, restaurant services, furniture, and hardware. Misc items include bicycles, farm sprays, milks, and a police-logged shooting in South Park with arrest and jail transfer.
A center table display shows four granite dish pans with minor damage priced under half of their regular cost.
The Wilder homestead on Windmill Heights offers a brick house, roomy stable, outbuildings, twenty acres with half valued for fruit, needing little cleaning to become desirable near Lawrence. Other notices promote coal, furnaces, jewelry, insurance, loans, eye care, and school opening plans.
Vermont Governor C J Ball and aides face the choice of the christening liquid for the battleship Vermont in Quincy Massachusetts He says it would be rude to dictate the hosts content and would decline any champagne if asked and would not drink alcohol.
Promoters from Stranger Valley arrived in Lawrence with four attorneys and met the city attorney to push terms of the franchise and the need to expedite action. Rumor says promoters intend to secure a right of way through town rather than local service. officials warned no action tonight, but presence signals possible consideration. A county court session earlier saw Harry Peterson plead guilty to petty larceny after withdrawing riot charge. William Brookersby funeral held with Grand Army of the Republic services at Oak Ya cemetery. Georgia Brown to drill Priests of Pallas ballet in Kansas City again. Smith's News Depot advertises football goods. Dr. G A Hamman returns to practice.
The Continental Times reports July 4 events in Berlin at Grunau on the Sprea with a roll call of states. New York led with forty two, followed by Pennsylvania, Indiana, California and others. Kansas had one representative, Mrs. Charles P. Grosvanor of Lawrence.
A Kansas man W A Hinesley of Lawrence visited a cousin in Lexington and got lost after alighting at the depot. He mistook the transfer barn as his cousin’s place and was driven to the Hinesley home after staff explained the mix up. The day also notes local industrial ads and the 42 year Quantrell raid anniversary.
A stream of visitors and locals appear in Lawrence, with Mrs. M. A. Torbart hosting and Glen Parker from Kansas City in town. Numerous trips to Kansas City, Topeka, Ottawa, Vinland, and Excelsior Springs mark a busy social period as families, professors, and dignitaries catch up and attend events.
A high degree of skill from years of experience and the best tools produce satisfactory results for exacting customers. Property safety is assured and no task is beyond our capabilities. Charges are the lowest consistent with the best workmanship.
A crowded social diary lists visitors and departures in Lawrence including Mrs Otis Swenson of Clay County Smiling at her mother Mrs Frederickson Frank Moore of Albuquerque spending a few days in Lawrence Mr Sam Moore of Kansas City visiting Mrs J P Powell and children Odessa Mo Mrs FY Roberta and others from New York City Kansas City Excelsior Springs Ogden and Chicago with multiple travelers and homecomings among local families and hotel proprietor Chas E Stillwall visiting New York City
F. M. Bennett urges Cambridge readers to scrutinize proposed Lawrence streetcar franchise rights. He warns promoters seek costly grants without public safeguards and urges clear rules on transfers routes rates service time and city remuneration to protect municipal interests and riders.
In a speech before the Ohio Society of New York the late John Hay outlined his lineage. He cited origins from Indiana and Rhode Island, education in Springfield Illinois, a Washington role, diplomacy in Europe Asia and Africa, a New Hampshire farm, and a District of Columbia office, describing a mixed Anglo German French ancestry.
Georg W. Vanderbilt attempted a highly scientific farming venture in North Carolina. Relatives warned him it would not succeed, and reports note the farm will be sublet as production struggles, despite the Vanderbilt piggery butter milk fed stock and specially fed hens.
An aged church figure, Dr Dames Murphy archbishop of Hobart Tasmania, recalls Pope Gregory XVI era. Born in Cork during the Waterloo campaign, he was present in Hobart as a last prelate from Gregory the Great. He survived the 1851 council that proclaimed the Immaculate Conception dogma.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Chamberlain are expected to visit Mrs Chamberlains old Massachusetts home in fall The former Mary Endicott daughter of William Endicott who served as secretary of war in Cleveland's cabinet will join the trip The purpose is rest from duties with limited social obligations
Dr Mrs Sarah Atchison Ross, aged 84, daughter of Sichmons T. A. Atchison who fought at Trenton and widow of Mexican War veteran Thomas Ross, died in Westmoreland County. She was among three women honored by the national society for being daughters of men who fought in the Revolution. Scrips show market notes on flour and groceries at 28 Massachusetts Street.
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