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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1918
Page
2
A compilation of wartime columns discusses subscription rates, local duties, and home front efforts. It covers weed control, civil defense, guarding manpower, and a critique of Australia prime minister Hughes pushing empire protection. It notes guards discharges and urges production of finished goods from local raw materials.
The piece critiques unequal burdens of wartime finance and labor duty, urging workers to recognize front line sacrifices. It argues some shirk obligations while others gain, suggesting small voluntary contributions to boost production and national effort. It cites commentary from the Financial Chronicle.
Fragmented OCR text presents a scattered column by Paul C Raokin with musings on everyday life and humor. It references Happy Valley, opinions on events, and a pugilist’s stumble, ending with a vague note about trees. The piece lacks coherent narrative or clear dated context.
The passage contrasts two men of draft age: one inducted into service and required to risk life and dedicate all energy for the country, the other equally fit and qualified but exempt due to marriage or related reasons, highlighting the fairness and burdens of conscription.
The piece describes the Select Picture Over There starring Anna Nilsson and Charles Richman at the Varsity Theater on Thursday and Friday, highlighting scenes of war front action and a Red Cross ambulance sequence. It notes Nilsson’s performance and the film’s patriotic framing amid wartime anxieties.
A young woman reads aloud a Waterloo passage to her father in a study. The dialogue evokes Napoleon and the Old Guard as the scene shifts from battle to contemplation. The daughter asks if the modern Napoleon would thrill in a hypothetical Waterloo clash.
A one day amateur photographer promotes film processing at Mc Culloch Drug Store. Local social updates list Miss Mathelda Sutter and Mrs Harris-Lorenson as guests of Mrs Perry B Barber. Mrs Frank Cyane of Liberty Mo visits her parents Clint Vigts. Mise Tey Morgan and Mrs L Elliot travel to Topeka to visit Mrs Dick Mabry.
Community notes recount wartime mobilization talk urging readiness as schools training camps open. Local visits, family gatherings, and social events fill the week with visitors from Lawrence to Nowata and dances at the hall.
American troops near Fismes repel German aerial bombardment and heavy shelling. Aircraft dived close to town rooftops, but U S forces fired back with machine guns and maintained a strong hold on the village as artillery continued bombardment.
Notice asks the borrower of the Journal-World bound volume issues from July to December 1917 to return it to The World Company office at once. The item references British East Africa and a hospital in France aboard.
Yesterday marriage licenses were issued to Louis E Giesey and Laura Paulding both of Lawrence Farry Wiley Read and Mabel DeWitt also of Lawrence The note references a bound volume of the Journal World with issues from July to December 1917 and asks for a return to the office.
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