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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1910
Page
4
A wave of small town items: council to discuss city additions to spur new housing, mayor’s license ordinance stance on telephone franchises noted, local businesses advertise cleaning and tailoring services, a stereopticon lecture planned, and community notices on health, shopping, and events.
Woodward Co offers new films and Kodak goods in popular sizes. Stock moves steadily as 60 old items are listed, and customers are urged to discuss buying three cameras for the summer season. Clairvoyant Mme Celeste is advertised at Lawrence House. Contact at 131.
Newly elected officers of the Women's Kansas Day club are listed with president Mrs E W Hoeh Marion and other posts. The inter state literary contest aims for best original papers by club women. Local clubs discuss Colloquial meta Christian Science New Thought topics and music preferences. Members share lectures on sculptors poets and landscape painters with scholarship fund support and notable art finds.
Profile of Kansas painter William Alexander Gaiffith from Lawrence and a digest of club activities. The text records Gaiffith’s training in St. Louis Paris and at the University of Kansas, plus honors from Washington University and American art societies. It then covers Zodiac Club luncheon, Ventura and Ingleside club meetings, Lawrence Reading Club notes, Current Event Club anniversary activities, and related social details.
A buggy with Mr Roseneau and his six year old son was spooked by a streetcar on New Jersey Street. The horses bolted to Quincy and Tennessee, harness broke, but no one was thrown. Also notes from the Sunday school league basketball games at the gym. Methodist beat Congregationalists 52 to 28. Christians beat Baptists 53 to 22. Upcoming games listed with ticket info. Local ads for dry goods, tailoring, art lessons, and jewelry. Special Washington’s Birthday mentions and ice cream hatchets.
Amusements note the play Polly of the Circus at Buwersuck Opera House on Wednesday February 23 with circus scenes and Pad room behind the scenes. Ticket prices range from 5 cents to 1.50, and Sunday dinner at Fairfax listed. Public sale announced near Vinland on Monday February 2? with stock, implements, and household goods.
County Attorney Harley will conduct a forthcoming inquiry into alleged constant liquor violations at Baldwin. The probe, to be held in the next few days, aims to uncover conditions and enforce enforcement measures. Deputy Sheriff Woods yesterday captured a man, Tom Anderson, on a complaint by W. D. Gwinn who accused Anderson of obtaining money under false pretenses by soliciting 200 bushels of corn at 6 cents per bushel and asking for payment under the pretense of his sister's illness in Kansas City.
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