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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
4
Christmas bargains feature brushes perfumes mirrors cigars and many useful presents. Dick Bros offers sweet cider from New York apples at 30 cents per gallon and boiled cider for cooking at 20 cents with delivery. Phillip fruit farm advertises. Wilder Bros. highlights new Hannel shirts and invites shoppers to try them.
A group led by Prof E Haworth and Prof F O Marvin heads to St Louis for an American Association for the Advancement of Science gathering. Subsequent attendees include Prof H P Cady Prof E Bar stow and Dr E Haworth for a dining engineering schools meeting in the same city. Raymond & Co promote perfumery toilet sets and traveling kits in an unrelated ad fragment.
The Northwestern advertises over two hundred insurance policies of various kinds in Lawrence and promises to compare net costs with any company.KR Griggs, Dist Agt, notes the firm’s commitment to the “true Test in life insurance” cost. Also, holiday photographs with Miss Jane Shane at 615 Mass. Street, and prompt, careful attention to all orders.
A collage of festive price cuts and ads from local businesses. Dr Wheeler and others promote dental specials, library funding notes link to tickets, M D Greenlee touts Aetna Life, L Zuttermeister sells candies, Newmark’s urges viewing Christmas goods, Smith's News Depot and Alfred Whitman advertise loans and idle money opportunities.
Local notices detail numerous residents traveling to Leavenworth Ottawa Topeka and other towns for Christmas visits. Families, friends and students from Lawrence Kansas City Leavenworth and nearby areas plan gatherings, dances, and reunions with relatives and hosts across the region.
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