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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1909
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal reports on Kansas politics with women voting limits, local campaign interest, and Bank Guaranty law passage. It comments on municipal engagement, criticizes lawmakers, praises the Hill Art Exhibit, and condemns bucketshop gambling as ruinous. The piece ends with caution about speculators and regulation.
An editorial from the Leavenworth Times argues advertising drives actual results and shapes Lawrence area business. It claims 5,000 Times readers in Leavenworth County spend about 200 dollars yearly, with a million dollars yearly flowing to merchants via ads. Persistent advertisers gain the largest share of business, while nonadvertisers lose out on the dollars.
A French scientist cites blood health as a secret of longevity while Electric Bitters is praised as a life prolonging tonic. The ad claims the remedy purifies enriches and vitalizes blood rebuilds nerve cells and restores energy. Quote from W M Sherman of Cushing Maine credits a cure. Only 60 cents at Barber and Son.
George Spencer Millett a 15 year old office boy for Metropolitan Life Insurance died after a steel ink eraser blade severed an artery. He fell while fleeing stenographer Gertrude Robbins who said she intended to kiss him fifteen times. Robbins was arrested for six hours and released.
Andy Bowman of Deep Creek shot a large old female catamount near Manhattan on a prairie. He claimed a 141.00 bounty but did not accept the county payout for ear cutting. the county pays about four to five dollars per wild cat.
A Lawrence Kansas veteran, C. W. Orrick of 300 New York Street, cites lasting kidney relief from Doan's Kidney Pills after Civil War hardships. The testimonial, dated 1905 and confirmed 1908, praises the pills from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as the best remedy, with nationwide sale at 50 cents.
Sheridan, Paola candidate for Congress in the second district, spoke at the university chapel praising broad study and warning against excessive specialization. The speech tied to reference to humane education and cited the line The proper study of mankind is man. An advertisement for Dr Shoop's Restorative praised nerve health of stomach, heart, and kidneys, urging a ten day trial sold by C. P. Barber & Son.
A promotional notice offers a free ten day home treatment for "Leucorhoes or Whitish discharges" and related female ailments. It claims to cure at home without doctors, requests reader letters, specifies a mailing cost of about 12 cents, and promises free explanatory illustrations and continued treatment information.
Mixed OCR text shows a 1909 Kansas court sale notice in Douglas County with Sheriff W. I. Banning stamping a sale of real estate in North Lawrence, plus unrelated lines about a Custer myth, coffee ads, medical testimonials, and township bidding rules. The fragmentary items reflect legal notices, public sale details, and assorted advertisements from the period.
An old advertisement promotes Castoria for infants and children and references a familiar slogan The Kind You Have Always Bought. The snippet mentions Preventive health toys and pills, a Treasury matter, and legal language about approvals and committees, all presented in a fragmented, period voice with many OCR garbles.
Willow Springs reports the longest recent snow and local notes. Milton Bond did sawing wood. Isaac Studebaker plans a sale on February 18 at Willow Springs. Cobbled items include Mr Jacobs with a new bogey and ponies, plus travel to Garwood Texas for a farm purchase by Mr Coffett. Attendance at Sunday meeting was light.
A dated editorial mocks baldheadedness as degeneracy, noting babies cry from hairless shame and deriding scientists who claim hairless people are degenerate. The piece blends satire with a public notice promoting Dr Shoup's Cough remedy sold by U P Barber & Sun.
Salina and Saline county residents plan a novel fund raise for a new YM C A building. Expected cost ranges from 15000 to 90000 dollars. Volunteers pledge one dollar per month for three years. Farmers propose a penny per pig sale to hasten funding.
A 1909 public notice reports a fashion shift away from the Merry Widow hat driven by milliners, with a brimless successor expected. The piece lampoons theater row profanity and praises a new style while noting opposition from Madam Mearl and praises to fashion authorities. Also includes a medical ad and a legal property filing from Lawrence Kansas.
A jumble of advertisements lists farm seed potatoes and a buggy with harness, a seven room house with bath and cistern, a walnut table, household items, incubator and gas stoves. Several motor cars and railway notices appear amid various sale and rental offers with locations and contact details.
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