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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1900
Page
2
The Emporia Gazette and Topeka Capital discuss the Kentucky crisis, federal duties, and proposals to pension railway mail clerks. Editors denounce both parties’ tactics, praise constitutional rights, and critique Governor Taylor’s capitol dispute as weak leadership amid political strife.
A letter dated February 1900 from Lawrence Kansas, to William Mize, secretary of the American Anti Imperialist League in Chicago, explains why the writer cannot name opponents to McKinley administration in the Kansas district and questions imperial policy and the Dewey Manila victory context. It argues against wartime arbitration and territorial expansion beyond North America.
A local aged advertisement warns that a small sore may be cancer and urges early treatment. It cites a testimonial from Wm Walpole of Walshtown who says a remedy cured his cancer after doctors advised cutting it out, claiming the medicine reaches the blood and is the only true cure.
The Bismarck region reports a division of a large ancient farm into five smaller parcels with varied acreage and bottom land. Local items note a horse suit near Bismarck, a long-standing mud hole on the North Lawrence to schoolhouse road, and no recent tramp sightings due to cold weather. Union meetings draw youth, Reno improvements loom, and local trade thrives under K. W. Nance. Washington’s birthday events, a near fatal accident to Kraus, pension day turnout, and a growing musical club mark community life. Potatoes begin moving south as plowing winds down.
Wanted women to bind dress shields at home with steady work and no distance disadvantage. shields snap on waist without sewing. Send six cents for catalogue. Address Kora Shield Co. 525 Broome Street New York.
Local notes report pension day for veterans near Lecompton, cattle feeding on Cherokes farm, new house south of the schoolhouse, and George Gunn's goat ranch on Turkey creek. Mention of Holiness revival, electricity photos, insurance ads, catarrh cure, and travel rates for a Kansas City concert.
A rambling monologue-set tale unfolds in Backville Conn as a stranger from Flarkina Ul Billington Turkins Natut narrates the town’s obsession with a town clock. The piece traces Backville’s isolation, a 40 year vow to the Glock clock, and a mystery around a vanished timepiece that unsettles the town.
Grain-O is described as a food drink made from pure grains that can replace coffee for both adults and children. It promises rich mocha like flavor and is advertised as easy on delicate stomachs at 19 cents and 5 cents per package, sold by grocers.
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