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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1899
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal reports on national politics and editorial opinions, noting Kansas City sentiment toward the Democratic convention, New England and British topics, Cuba, the Boers, and local figures such as Judge Frank Price. It mentions editorials, subscription rumors, and a Meade county cowboy anecdote about Price’s court work.
The Round Table group with Mrs L Moore heard papers on Scotland reforms 1513 to 1546 and read pieces including Scotch Heather. Ventura discussed care of the insane and white influence on colored people. The NoName club heard on Datebh women and Conan Doyle. Twentieth Century covered Bruges and Hans Memmiling. art in Holland discussed by Mrs Penny. Several clubs noted new officers, topics on German newspapers and Raphael Madonnas. The Zodiac, Engleside, Grst, Quivera, and other clubs met with various talks and readings. The New Year guide recommends Oostener's almanac widely distributed through Hostetter Co.
The directory lists services for Christian Church with Rev Chas M Sharpe and Rev H L Willis, Unitarian Church with Rev F M Vencetts, Unity Club events, and multiple other churches including First Baptist, First M E, Massachusettes Street Church of Christ Scientist, Plymouth Congregational, and English Lutheran. Morning and evening sermons, Sunday school times, training services and youth groups are given with various pastors and locations. Also notes Bulls Cough Syrup advertised at 25 cents for throat and chest relief.
The Chicago Tribune notes a growing Missouri tobacco policy debate influencing workers as a new party line forms. A winter Missouri workers’ association meeting is planned at the Laclede hotel in St Louis on February 8 to discuss strategies and potential alliances.
Doutful product pitch from Hall's Catarrh Cure offering one hundred dollars for any catarrh case. Includes testimonials from Toledo druggists and local retailers, a claim of internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, price seventy five cents per bottle, and free testimonials.
A lurid warning promotes a patent remedy S S 8 8 the only cure that claims to reach the disease at its source. Personal testimony from Mrs Joseryinz Perm of Due West South Carolina endorses the product for seven years of relief after sprays and washes failed. The ad urges readers to seek relief now rather than rely on local treatments. Books free from Swift Specific Company, Atlanta Georgia.
Mrs and Mr Brown write from Arlington Estate near Salisbury about their home life in Rhodesia. They describe travel in an ox wagon with a tent, church visits, local clergy, and the contrast between English manners and African life. The letter details the kopje house, gardens, workers, schooling, and plans for a larger brick home, along with daily routines, market trips, and a prairie fire near the farm.
The writer describes drying figs turn to mukugee for friends and workers near the ox-wagon driver. A Dutch family arrives in a new iron house and Mr. Epher helps Mr. Brown. War rumors abound as martial law spreads in the Transvaal and floods of talk about Mafeking and railways. The vegetable garden thrives under Frank's supervision with Mashona laborers. The MacLaurin visit brings drives and country exploration, with vivid panoramas of green meadows, hills, and streams.
Lawrence Kansas readers learn ME, STRAH argues the school board wastes 25000 on Central School site. He asserts local families already have nearby options Pinckney Verwont New York and Quincy schools and warns the new building would draw 1000 pupils, spreading contagious diseases and increasing street litter.
Fred Stratam voices sharp critique of board decisions on a new city school palace on Warren street. He argues the site is ill placed, space is wasted, and funds should fund multiple nearer sites or improve existing buildings. He questions long travel for 6 and 7 year olds and urges spending to benefit all districts rather than a single grand project.
A fractured excerpt appears to mirror a dramatic lament or prophetic meditation. It references kings, heavenly justice, betrayal, and a riven world where night reveals crimes and sorrow. Prominent images include a kingly crown, divine restraint, and a call to steadfastness amid perilous plots. The text hints at a meditation on power, fate, and moral catastrophe.
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