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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1901
Page
3
A hearing led by Judge MBullister on plans for a permanent junction license faces delays before the August contest. Attendees discuss arrangements and ticket sales as preparations unfold. Mrs Currie Nation praised for anti saloon work, while Methodist and Baptist groups debate Prohibition.
Long Island Automobile Club sets rules for a 100 mile endurance test on macadam roads late in March. Three classes steam gas and electric with prizes. entry fee ten dollars. self propelled vehicles only. grade contest Jamaica to Flushing about 20 percent. battery relays for electric cars. maximum eight miles through villages. fuel and water supplied by entrants. notices to village authorities. entries limited to vehicles carrying full passenger complements. Committee includes L R B Adams president chair Contests and Exhibitions, H W Fuller ton good roads, A S Chapin tours, F W Tousey J F R Savel, F G Webb technical, with secretary Charles W Spurr at 552 State Street New York.
Clarence Rush, a Harvard student four years in, rose from peddling butter in Cambridge to becoming New England agent for a New York butter house. He started with one tub of butter from an aunt, built a customer base of about a thousand in three months, then expanded to six wagons and pony deliveries. Now living in Ware Hall, he showcases remarkable business growth from humble beginnings.
In St Louis on February 11 a riot near Twelfth and Linden streets wounded a police sergeant and two Black men, with many armed individuals present. A ballot box was stolen and no votes were cast in the Second district Fourth ward during the day. Capt. Elely led 40 officers to restore order.
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