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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1904
Page
3
Roy Kewip of Angola Indiana writes from his bed of four weeks with La Grippe and failure of physicians remedies until using Foley's Honey and Tar. He reports two small bottles cured him and now uses it for his family, noting its merit and urging others to take it.
A fragmented 1508 timetable lists Chicago and Kansas routes, express and local trains, and branch lines from Lawrence and Leavenworth. It includes daily, Sunday, and holiday departures and arrivals, with notes on passenger services, mixed trains, and specific train numbers across Union Pacific lines. The garbled text preserves names like Lawrence, Leavenworth, Kansas City, and Pacific Express amid scattered times and service notes.
A News Herald report recalls an old woman in Joplin who traveled with a basket of snakes hoping to sell them. She expected up to $3,000 from the sale, but found no buyers and released the reptiles on East Seventh Street causing unusual alarm among residents. The piece also notes a Mexico pepper seller and racial costume curiosities described in Everybody's Magazine.
An essay contrasts past and present female ideals, arguing that modern athletic culture harms health and femininity. It contends bicycling and other sports misalign with natural female form, while walking is healthiest. The piece laments smaller, more artificial families and stresses motherhood and natural beauty over contemporary standards.
A Northwest senator and a Delaware socialite are linked by a house-hunting tale. The woman offers her mansion for rent at 4500, while the senator ponders what to do with the remaining 500 of his salary. He gazes out the window, saying he is thinking.
A cheap and serviceable wire gate design suitable where gates are used infrequently. It avoids sheep or hogs but confines cattle with a three wire fence, using loops, ratchets, boards, and rings to form taut hinges and a taut gate. James Cotter describes steps for cutting wires, attaching loops, assembling boards, ratchets, and stakes to create a functional field gate.
A Rural New Yorker article praises using concrete for farm walks, fence posts, doors, cisterns, and fireproof building. It describes methods for post boxes, hinges, eyes, and self-sustaining floors, noting costs rise slightly but offer durability. Also urges farmers to share practical experiences and avoid hesitation. Cattle near Baltimore die from old ginger snaps and fruit cake fed to Herefords, reflecting risky feeding practices by county farmers.
Editor Lynch of the Daily Post praises Foley's Honey and Tar as the best remedy for coughs and throat complaints, claiming it superior to others in family use. The blurb includes a humorous, misquoted dialogue about remedies and affection, reflecting ad copy style.
A notice from friends in Lims reports G H Hansen has recovered from threatened kidney disease. He credits Foley's Kidney Cure and recommends it to others, especially travelers. Barber Bros. endorses the remedy.
A Lawrence citizen cites Dr. Ashmead's theory that Native American origins trace to Europe via a submerged land bridge, with fossils and mummy disease patterns cited. The piece discusses Ashmead's research, Canary Islands links, and potential debates with experts, noting his West Twenty third Street address and a Buffalo pharmacy ad context.
Anna McCoy, 32, of Virginia Illinois, a farmer and lumber expert, is noted as the state s best stock raiser. Born Ann Hohrer in Decatur to German parents she later married Charles McCoy in Kansas City and divorced. She built her own home, cut timber, churned with an ax and plowed, cooking for a Virginia hotel and supplying poles for a telephone line while returning to her farm.
A reader describes a makeshift barrel smokehouse using a large barrel with a door, hinges, and a smoke cap to cure meat. The piece shifts to reports that soon Sioux Hesebud reservation lands in South Dakota will open for settlement as Indians are assimilated into farming and citizenship. It also outlines a Bermuda grass control method: plow after December frost, harrow, seed oats in March, plant cowpeas after harvest, then sow wheat to remove Bermuda grass.
A fragmented ad copy describes how turning a valve on a camel gas stove makes the fuel flow smoothly and safely. It implies instant control over flame speed by a slight valve turn.
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