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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1919
Page
5
Monday regular practices include drama basketball and orchestra. Boys basketball begins. Tuesday features Gilee Club Practice and Colored Girls Club. Wednesday offers meetings of Normal TV Club and Girls basketball. Thursday W C A cabinet meets. Friday programs include Footlighters play Colored Hi Y and Radio Club meets.
An advertisement promotes Calotabs as a bedtime laxative that cleanses the liver and purifies the system by morning. It claims no griping or after effects and promises improved mood and appetite the next day. The copy urges readers to ask their druggist for the original sealed package.
Advert shows relief from colds after first dose with three doses per treatment. It claims to unclog nostrils, ease head congestion, stop runny nose and headaches, and says the medicine costs only a few cents at any drug store.
An advertisement warns that meat produces uric acid which can paralyse and irritate kidneys. It urges daily meat with periodic flushing using four ounces of Jad Salts, a lemon acid lithia product, to neutralize acids and relieve bladder weakness.
Miss Helen Metcalf arrives in Lawrence to rest from ill health after leaving Wichita. Thirty girls donate jellies apples sugar cakes coffee and meat for Gift Baskets distributed Thanksgiving morning. Y W C A pageant at Haskell Institute and High School Footlighters plan a December 5 play in the Assembly room with admission twenty five cents. Proceeds support Y W C A.
The Lawrence Kiwanis article presents corrected charter member names after errors in the original list. It enumerates numerous members and their associated firms, positions, or roles within the community.
B F House of Howell Yards Seaboard Air Line Railroad credits Tanlac with restoring his health after years of poor appetite stomach pain and weight loss He gained twenty two pounds in a month and now enjoys a big appetite and steady work on his engine The tonic is sold in Lawrence by Round Corner Drug Co City Drug Store Eudora and Big Springs R F D Lecompton via A R Wilson
Major Dinsmore presided at a Topeka gathering organizing a national Reserve Officers Association. About forty officers hold reserve commissions in Topeka with many already in the new group, and inquiries pour in from coasts seeking nationwide branches.
An advertisement features Dr. Al Bright, a chiropractor masseur, promoting wellness through spinal adjustments at 1101 Mass St. The copy emphasizes health benefits and invites inquiries.
An old advertisement warns of dangerous chest congestion from grippe and promotes a remedy available at Grugelst's for 0c and $1.20 per bottle. It claims to loosen chest tightness and phlegm with no after effects and suggests giving it to children or taking it oneself.
Nonsensical ad copy touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a cure for digestive upset. It promises bowel cleansing and relief from biliousness headaches and sour stomach, while warning against habit forming effects and urging gentle, thorough detoxification.
The Bayer Cross marks the genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, proven safe by millions for common pains. Prescribed by physicians for over eighteen years, Bayer packages include directions for headache, toothache, neuritis, rheumatism, and general pain in boxes of 12 tablets at a few cents. Larger packages available. Aspirin is the trademark of Bayer Manufacture, Monenectioghicsiee of Salicylic acid.
Elis Notice from Exalted Ruler Co P L Radcliffe states no regular meeting on Wednesday December 8 and the Annual Memorial Exercises next Sunday will be indefinitely postponed to conserve fuel. The note urges fuel conservation and mentions Flavo Flour made from hard wheat. South Africa Meets H. Johannesburg reports high living costs with butter and wool prices highlighted.
Clarence Everly and Vance Grimes of the city fire department resigned this morning after about two months on the force. They sought positions with shorter hours, as Chief William Reinisch notes that even when workload is light, workers must be ready to respond at all times.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy after illness including crip, pneumonia or typhoid fever, claiming it restores health and strength and aids recovery.
A leak in a water main allowed air into the pipe cutting city water from 1 AM to noon yesterday. Workers removed twelve foot sections of twenty inch pipe between the clear well and the pump, replacing them with new pipe. Ed Anderson supplied the ten men who did the work with lunch at noon.
Advertorial style image of a miracle oil touts Miller's Antiseptic Oil as the "Snake Oil" with claims of rapid relief for rheumatic pain lumbago and sprains. Letters from readers and offers of two bottles for 60 cents to one dollar are cited with a money back guarantee.
An advertisement claims eczema and other skin diseases stem from blood disorder and promotes S. S. S. as a century‑long effective remedy. Readers are urged to contact Chief Medical Adviser Swift Specific Co Dept. 44 Atlanta Ga for personalized guidance.
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