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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
4
H. W. Henderson, at 635 Massachusetts, dealer in harness, robes, blankets, and repair services displays a full line of saddlery. Sells Olmated's Cough Cure guaranteed. Tasty toilet waters priced at 25 cents and up. Rubber complexion.
Haskell items note team morale with new practice uniforms and upcoming Christmas entertainment. A new assistant disciplinarian, William Balmer, arrives December 12. Advertisements promote knives, nickel ware, a modern house for sale, rubber footwear, coal gifts, and Christmas trees with contact details.
John G. Sollivan drew applause at the Bowersock Opera House for a short one word spoken role in Honest Hearts and Willing Hands, a stunt he repeated with a long monologue yesterday. The note lists local ads and services from Stratton's drug store to Parker the tailor and Corner Grocery offering various goods and promotions.
Local ads highlight coal types at market rates and a full stock of food. The Christmas rush at the post office will persist beyond Christmas, with transfer hubs like St. Louis Chicago and Kansas City facing congestion. Other promos include Globe Wernicke book cases Rowlands Stavenson as agents, Winochell's cigars, McLaughlin Bros Percheron prizes, and Menthalene household remedy.
Wagstaffs offers candy from 10 cents per pound with gift assortments and perfumes. Mrs Connery at 903 Massachusetts street advertises needlework novelties, Christmas presents, and fine wares. Mass street businesses note bargains on candles, stationery, books, purses, and Edison phonographs with wholesale pricing and moving services listed.
Multiple small notices announce turkeys and other poultry, butter and eggs, candies, Christmas gifts, and newsstand items. Vendors include McCurdy's Grocery, Tollen & Young Indiana Cash Grocery, Zuttermeister's, Straffens drug store, Boughton's, Smith's News Depot, and J. T. Constant. Also listed are jewelry, candy, records, coal, and farm goods with contact details and locations in town.
The store announces evening hours through Christmas Eve and a compact catalogue of gifts for the season. It highlights clocks, travel goods, gloves, clothing, linens, silk waists, umbrellas, robes, blankets, rugs, lace curtains, and children’s wear among three rooms of merchandise, with options from $1 to $8 on some items.
The Lawrence house plans a big Christmas dinner Monday with table reservations for groups of six to eight, price 35 cents. Local ads promote lamps, gas stoves, coal, groceries, gifts, perfumes, and a barrel of cranberry pickers, with various vendors including Indiana Cash Grocery and Woodward's offering specials and price points.
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