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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1909
Page
4
An old advertisement urges readers to buy a Suction Car pet sweeper to please a wife, praising the Victoria as the finest in the land. It lists A. L. Harris as agent at 401 Maine St with home phone 7192 and Bell number 1268.
Mrs William M Tidrow opens her art studio tomorrow afternoon in the Beery building from 2 to 5 pm She will fill all Christmas orders and receive students in the new studio space.
An advertising snippet promotes L. Hess as the place to buy good meat and a dermatology friendly K-A product Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for pimples and skin problems. A short comic exchange between Blobbs and Slobbs ends with Blobbs admitting affection for women and a quip about talking in his sleep.
B F Ayscne of Ingle side NC suffered 15 years from indigestion and tried doctors and $200 worth of medicine before using Dr King s New Life Pills. They claim to cure constipation biliousness sick headaches stomach liver kidney and bowel troubles. 25 cents at O P Barber Son.
The Kansas bar plans meetings in Topeka January 27 and 28 with Roscoe Pound billed as principal speaker. Uncle Jim Green presides. William E Hutchinson of Garden City chairs the executive committee. Pound will address Puritanism and the Common Law. other speakers include W. S. Fitzpatrick, Paul Brown, R. M. Anderson, M. Alden, and President Green.
In St Louis Missouri Archbishop John Glennon began the silver jubilee today marking the twenty fifth anniversary of his ordination. Many church officials and Roman Catholics gathered to celebrate the milestone in the archdiocese.
A prominent Lawrence resident reports a whole northern colony plans to relocate to Lawrence, boosting the town’s population and employment prospects. The plan envisions an initial delegation arriving in about four months, followed by a spring influx of well to do residents drawn by jobs and the area’s natural gas development.
J. N. Paterson, a night policeman in Nashua Town, recounts a severe winter cold that resisted many medicines and two doctors until Foley's Honey and Tar cured two-thirds of a bottle. He calls it the greatest cough and lung medicine in the world and urges readers to remember the name and avoid substitutes.
The Ice Gorge has reached the bottom of the river and worsened. Water power may resume once the water falls three feet more. The text notes the hazard lessens daily as water works through the ice, while warnings about common cold remedies and local business ads appear nearby.
Lawrence residents urged to watch for warning symptoms such as thick foul urine and back pain. An ad touts Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co as a cure, citing Mrs. M. Winchell of Maple Grove, Lawrence, Kan. for sale by Dick Bros. Drug Store at 80 cents. Weather described as an unusually fine winter day with bright sun and snow.
A collage of ads mentions Castoria with familiar line You Have Always Bought and a patent medicine tone for Foley's Kidney Remedy. It notes a Shirt Waist Makers Strike in Philadelphia and reports Roosevelt’s party arriving at Entebbe after a voyage to Victoria Nyanza with officials awaiting them before departure for Kampala.
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