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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal edition from December 17 1908 highlights local tax concerns with fair assessment and inequities in land value, calls for honest assessors, and critiques property taxation on mortgages and non-resident owners. It also mentions political figures and a mix of community notices and ads.
The Topeka State Journal notes a Kansas push against consumption based on resolutions from a Washington tuberculosis congress. It calls for case notification and registration, contagion prevention, hospital and camp establishment, factory and labor laws, school hygiene instruction, and college sanitation courses to eradicate consumption within a generation.
A plan to systematically change the tax law is urged to restore the prior order. Some taxpayers claim current taxes are higher than before, a view the speaker agrees with, asserting most taxpayers should pay more in a proper adjustment.
A youth named Burt, also known as Herman, suspected escaped reformatory inmate, arrested after weeks of petty crimes in a Nebraska town. He rode delivery wagons, concealed under a nearby wholesale house platform, stealing bread, salmon, crackers, fruit and other ready to eat items. Clerks noticed missing edibles and set a watch, catching the thief as wagons departed.
A Davenport diary ad touts Foley’s Honey and Tar as a remedy for asthma, recounting a twelve year bout cured by a single inexpensive bottle. The piece also promotes Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, urging readers to consult C. P. Barber & Son and Bullone & Hhotekman, with fashion notes on women’s clothing and foot appearance.
Leo F Zelinski of 58 Gibson St Buffalo says he cured a severe cold sore in two days using Bucklen’s Arica Salve applied once daily. He reports no trace of the sore remaining. Sold at drug stores. 25¢.
In Douglas County Kansas J T Harvey sues Lovan Hunting or unknown heirs and others to quiet title on parcels Erin Street Baldwin City and Fremont Street Lots 51 53 46 48 50 52 54 and to compel conveyance. Defendants must answer by January 30 1909 or judgment will be entered. L B Steele attorney for plaintiff.
Coffeyville Kansas September 14 1908. A bottle of Mall's Texas Wonder cured kidney bladder and rheumatic trouble. Endorsement by Geo Dillon. Sold by Barber and Son.
A collection of terse local ads and notices including motor cycles prices at Thor and Rork Cycle Shop, housekeeping services, meat market, and stockholders meeting for Watkins National Bank with date January 12, 1909. Also mentions livery services, transfer company, harness shop, clothing, and a variety of business contact details in Lawrence Kansas.
An ad presents an appendix removal as a dangerous operation performed by a surgeon. A purporting medical cure promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills as a quiet remedy that relieves constipation headache biliousness and malaria. The 25 cent patent medicine ad appears at Bar ber and Son's drug store with boastful claims. The text concludes with a boastful remark about remedies for everything except a busthead.
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