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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1908
Page
2
The article urges courts to impose jail terms instead of fines, advocates tax reform to ensure fair assessment at actual cash value, limits on tax commission power, and real estate tax rules. It critiques primary election burdens, notes farm life changes, and discusses public policy and mob law themes with era references.
A jumble of old notices and anecdotes reviews Bright's disease warning about delaying Foley's Kidney Cure and cites met stories of Morgantown residents cured. Additional items push through Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil, Bible lesson questions on David and Jonathan, and various short blurbs about health products and wit.
A fragment from a grand family medicine piece contrasts Jonathan’s loyal plea for David with Christ’s intercession. It extols Electric Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia and liver woes, praising Elestrie Hitters for digestive health while noting Barber & Son’s drugstore guarantee. A stray line comments on a woman reading during hair drying.
A fragmentary, period tone meditation links wireless telegraphy to Edison and Carnegie as archetypes. It blends ad hoc observations of Roosevelt and Cartel youth, with references to Kisses and Tears and a call to cherish paternal affection while noting public figures and scenes.
A historical ad extols Dr Pierce's treatments Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription as potent tonics purifiers and nervine energizers. It highlights non alcoholic composition from native American plants, praises medical authorities, and urges avoiding secret remedies while noting available pill form Pierce's Pellets.
Notices include land advertising by H C Andersen in Endora Kansas and a final settlement notice for Alexander Lewis estate in Douglas County. Other items promote needlework lessons, carpet cleaning, horse stables, travel deals to Colorado, clothing, bakery products and hat cleaning services. Also references to Panama hats and Lawrence Transfer Co. packing services.
A collection of brief notices seeks rooms for rent dining room help purchases ponies a rubber tired survey work from Women’s National Art Exchange and Lawrence Business College work-for-board positions wallpaper and supplies wheat corn oats general housework Jersey cows and penned pigs from diverse locals with contact phones listed for each want ad segment.
Numerous ads list farms houses and acreage for sale or exchange in and around Lawrence Kansas. Items include a seven room city house with outbuildings and four acres of fertile land not in flood area, a Wakara us a township 80 acre farm with 50 cultivated acres 30 timber and alfalfa, a city lot 50 by 27 with cement sidewalk and macadam road, a top buggy, a telegraph instrument and a modern residence at 627 Ohio Street. Also offers of mules horses and household goods along with exchange opportunities for farms in Arkansas Missouri and nearby towns. Contact details for G W White Tom White Howard E Wied man E G Ganoung L H Tuttle Walter Dyche and Geo Brecheisen Jr. included.
Public notice lists Claus Peterson and many others as defendants in a mission brought by EW Kraus in the District Court of Jefferson County Kansas. Defendants must answer by August 1906.
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