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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1909
Page
2
The Y M C A in Kansas strengthens religious work and personal conduct, uplifting men in business. Lawrence hosts the group with pride, recalling historical civic progress. A Kansas Journal squib explains counting a billion is feasible in decades, while a trillion would take millennia, touching on public finance and newspaper lineage.
A Kansas opinion piece argues the state has underfunded its university compared with peers, urging liberal funding and frank budgeting by Chancellor Strong. It highlights prior loyal administrators, contrasts with neighboring states, and calls for true economy through smart spending to elevate the university to peer status.
Instruction urges women to send cooked food to the YMCA building Saturday morning to aid delegates during the convention. It requests pies, cakes, and slices for meals and notes volunteers may house delegates. The notice also promotes DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve sold by Barber & Son as a general remedy.
A motivational creed urging personal happiness, usefulness, and resilience amid life’s tests. It asserts mastery of circumstances, refusal to yield to discouragement, turning failures into guidance, and facing the world with a brave, calm, undaunted spirit. The speaker proclaims immortality and God given birthright.
A mixed page notes an herbal weight loss recipe Marinola with Cascara and Peppermint demands readers try the formula while promising gradual thinning. The section also supplies two county road notices in Douglas and Johnson counties with docket dates, commissioners meetings, and road descriptions for local routes and hearings.
A Knoxville Iowa woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills after years of indigestion loss of appetite and severe back pain. She says recovery came after taking the pills for about a month while doctors had given little hope. The company markets the medicine nationwide through druggists and mail order.
Thursday notes show neighbors arranging moves and visits in Vinland. John Jenkins plans to relocate with family. Jessie Fitz to wed Rev Jonson with travel to follow. several residents host, dine, or travel. A new saw mill starts, a good roads meeting is planned, and Sturdy becomes mail carrier amid community updates.
An elderly Oklahoma convict, 74, pending release, was denied pay and left behind as 300 convicts departed Lansing bound for Oklahoma. But he shivered in a blizzard, was taken in by Kansas officers who fed and clothed him. The piece urges Kate Bernard to investigate the Oklahoma charity apparatus and expose the misallocation of about $15 due to the man.
The article notes that Lawrence’s THEME MO A LAWRENCESE will seldom have the opportunity to welcome a finer group of young men than the workers of the Young Men's Christian Association.
A Kemp Texas veteran J A Stone recalls a struggle with chronic lung trouble that nearly led to death. He credits a remedy, King’s New Discovery, for restoring health and weight. The ad also promotes clothing sales, watches, livery services, and auto painting with contact details, dated December 31 1908 and a public court notice follows.
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