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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1906
Page
2
County paper comments on labor and capital rights and lawfulness. Includes opinions on coal strikes and Japan China relations, praise for Dr. Snow on a woodchuck dispute, and a note about Commissioner Garfield and justice Moody testimony. Local newspaper tone with historical political musings and public notices.
The Kansas Supreme Court upheld white residents in Kansas City Kansas in the fight for separate schools for white and colored children. A high school for colored pupils was created, forcing Negro students to attend it or forego high school. The ruling frames racial segregation as a civic equality issue rooted in local history and ongoing debate.
The passage analyzes Kansas City Kansas in relation to Missouri race policy, arguing Kansas rejects segregated high schools while influenced by Missouri norms. It cites social dynamics, education equality, and regional attitudes before shifting to a string of brief advertisements for medicines and products.
Aided by endorsements from Mrs. Florence Cambridge of Lawrence Massachusetts, the ad extols Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for kidney and bladder inflammation pains and related female ailments. It claims relief from headaches dizziness backaches and urges readers to buy from local druggists.
An old Orange Judd Farmer note promotes simple cold lunch fixes using bread, biscuits, and thin sandwiches. It advises avoiding pork and veal for children, suggests finely chopped meats, nuts, and cheese on brown bread, and includes recipes for fillings and preserved spreads. It stresses digestibility and warns against overcomplicated meals that hinder study.
The excerpt mocks romantic excess, arguing true wealth lies in simple affection and faithful hearts. It contrasts genuine sentiment with dramatic literary devices where lovers pledge grand vows, write sonnets, or engage in jealous schemes, noting such melodrama inflates modern fiction.
N F Filtton Clifton district supervisor and leading state horticulturist shares practical advice on restoring aging shade trees. He recommends pruning to reach living sap, avoiding stimulants, removing dead wood promptly, and using surface bone or ashes to conserve soil nutrition. Ivy should be controlled on vigorous trees, allowed at base only if trees show no vitality.
A compact guide offers varied tips from cleaning and polishing to kitchen prep. It covers using water and alcohol on piano keys and jewelry, cologne and belladonna mixtures for old remedies, cleaning methods for mirrors, windows, and telephones, plus stains, wax hardening, and paste removals for putty and paint. It also suggests baked beans with sausages, wax and alum for nails, and simple cloth covers for telephone books to match room tones.
Classifieds show buyers seeking hogs cattle and poultry at top market prices with contact via initials and street address in Louisiana Street South limits. Also ads for a girl for light housework with wages, a stenographer with bookkeeping knowledge, and employment inquiries. Real estate offers include a nine room two story house on New York Street, a lime kiln property with multiple outbuildings near Winthrop Street, and a six room rental with land near Wiley place.
Seventy five feet on Vermont street, 125 feet back, price 0. For Sale eleven acres with two in alfalfa five room house good well cistern team harness wagon lumber wagon farm implements stable and all household goods price 2000. George H. Kubo K F D No 4 Lawrence Kansas For Gent house four rooms down stairs all in good condition nice location Call and see me FP A McCurdy No West Warren street Wanted energetic trustworthy man to work in Kansas representing large Manufacturing Co salary 40 to 90 per month paid weekly expense advanced Address with stamp J H Blo Lawrence Kan STOLEN harness one set of bread tackle single ply heavy mounted Name brass knobs one add painted hitch Nat back band gag rein hook on back end of tug also beap applied telegrams to J R Woodward Sheriff of Douglas County Lawrence Kan Lost money purse between 732 New York street and Edmondson s grocery Return to 732 New York street reward For Rent ten room house and care 641 Ohio street Enquire of Mye E A Simmons 45 Ohio street Wanted ten special traveling salesmen Vic tor Suspender Mfg Co Lawrence Kansas
The new second hand store at 734 Massachusetts Street deals in second hand goods clothing hats and jewelry for sale and exchange. D Litwin proprietor.
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