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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
3
A Bluff, Missouri businessman, C. G. Hays, claims Boeklen's Armies Salve is the quickest and surest healing salve for sores burns wounds and piles, guaranteed by O. P. Barber the local druggist at 25 cents. The piece also notes a string of local life notes and jokes from regional papers and adverts.
Ostego County readers praise Dr. Kings New Discovery for coughs and colds claiming it is an infallible cure. Wm M Diets editor of the Ontegs Journal notes it as a popular remedy and a trusted household medicine. C P Barber & Son drug store offers bottles at 50 cents and 1.00 with trial sizes free. Attorney General Jackson plans to crusade against the two per cent traffic amid talk of pure water and fresh milk as preferred quenchers.
Nellie a half breed collie adopted by the twenty first street yard crew has become the railway mascot. She rides the Pacific 7 nightly from seven to seven, leaping to the running board and boarding moving trains with precision. Her skill and loyalty impress the crew.
The article notes Swiss mountain railways, numbering near a million annual visitors in Switzerland, serving tourism rather than industry. It highlights the Jungfrau line opening in August 1905, rising over 10 500 feet toward 14 000 feet, and the broader role of glaciers, rivers, and hydroelectric power in powering these tours. It mentions Swiss turbine expertise building generators for global power needs and cites Niagra Falls turbines as examples.
A prose excerpt from John Milton's Areopagitica urging freedom of knowledge and speech against censorship. The passage compares a nation waking to light and condemns attempts to suppress new ideas, arguing liberty nourishes learning and virtue.
A humorous recount of a Franco Prussian war veteran Herman explaining why he would not describe his famed Iron Crags feat in words. He describes a battlefield scene where he, as the flag bearer, contemplates crossing to the French lines, humorously depicting army bravado and a general pinning a cross on him.
Readings recount the Gettysburg address with the line about a new birth of freedom and government of the people. A Sunbury incident with George J. Pegg shows a mob threatening the flag and forcing a pledge of salute on the Susquehanna River crossing to Northumberland.
The article notes Keene's cement and gypsum processing at Medicine Lodge in Barber County, Kansas. A tornado destroyed the old plant, but a new mill is planned to open by October 1 to supply finished cement and crushed gypsum for Portland cement plants, leveraging local gypsum and a revived railroad link.
In a Bemused tone the piece notes the regularity of sunrise and sunset as the universe’s constant. It jokes about pills and jokes at a local picnic where grafters worked hard to separate farmers from cash, implying widespread swindles. It ends with a wary, irony tinged remark about repeated misfortune.
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