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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1908
Page
3
Notice to mail subscribers warns of a new rule effective January 1 1908 prohibiting sending newspapers at pound rates to any subscriber with arrears. Subscribers are urged to settle to date. postmasters will adjust rates. The Journal hopes overdue subscriptions are paid before March 1.
A garbled local note discusses how climatic changes influence cigar preferences among customers. It mentions a man in a park seeking shelter from damp weather and reacting to Havana cigars, with dialogues and weather cues implying seasonal shifts in smoking habits.
Lawrence citizen Mrs Florence Messer testifies Doan's Kidney Pills cured her family’s kidney weakness, with lasting relief for her son James and daughter. Sold by Dick Bros drug store at 50 cents a box, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY agents. Remember the name Dean's.
Mrs. Louk is on the sick list Adam Balzar is ill with appendicitis but improving slowly The W M S of the Evangelical association gave a New Year’s program at the church for missionary causes Mr and Mrs C Kraft of Kansas City visiting with his parents Mr and Mrs John Kraft Mr and Mrs Chas Herschell and Sammie Iwie returned from a visit with Mrs Herschell’s sister at Randolph Kansas The Deer Creek school New Year’s Eve program was a success Mr and Mrs Will Damm had New Year’s dinner at Criss Wulfkuhle’s Mr and Mrs Henry Wulfkuhle visited relatives near Richland last weekend Mrs Stull and son Henry visited her sister at Emporia Stella Hoffsommer spent Sunday at Henry Wulfkuhle’s How’s This We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure F J Cheney Co Toledo Oh The undersigned have known F J Cheney for 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by his firm Waldoing Kinning Marvin Wholesale Druggists Toledo O Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent free Price 75 cents per bottle Sold by all Druggists Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation
Lawrence Kansas photographers sign an agreement to close studios Sundays starting January 12 1908 and urge enforcement of ordinances. They offer a $50 reward for evidence leading to arrest and conviction of anyone making negatives on Sundays in Lawrence. Names listed include J L Morris C F Squires F M Loomis A Lawrence and Jane B Shane. A university girl wore a white dress with a Elizabethan ruff at a recent dance highlighting fashion trends such as large ruffs returning.
A kitchen chronicle offers fragmented recipe notes including peach fillings with sugared rind and corn butter mixtures, pumpkin wafers from a long household tradition, cauliflower and potato stuffing baked in shells, a Scotch apple tart with raisins and lemon, and bacon with apples. The text preserves era-specific cooking steps and household measures.
A historical recipe segment outlines making Raisin Bread with scalded milk butter salt yeast dissolved in hot water flour batter set to rise for hours, then baked. It also details Ham and Egg Loaf mixing chopped ham crushed crackers eggs and meat, baked in loaf pans and sliced when cold.
Peel and stew apples until tender but intact. Line a deep pie with crust, fill with apples, pour orange marinade, cover with pastry strips, and bake quickly until browned. Serve hot.
Next Saturday at eight o clock a party will start from the Sweet farm to engage in a wolf hunt. Law rence visitors join from out of town. Shotguns will be used and farmers aim to exterminate wolves. Nellie Thompson hosted friends with games and taffy pulling. Governor Loeb received Christmas letters from Baldwin school children and answered them. Masons and Eastern Star held a joint installation with a plain supper.
A medical note warns that La Grippe coughs can become dangerous and pneumonia. It promotes Benning Foley’s Honey and Tar as a remedy that stops the cough and strengthens the lungs, urging to refuse substitutes.
Nine short pastries rolled thin cut into three inch lengths and one and a half inches wide. Bake brown, brush with egg yolk, fill with raspberry jam, top with whipped cream and a frothy sugar egg white. An economical salad using leftover cold vegetables like peas beans cauliflower potatoes or beets layered on lettuce with French dressing.
The eleventh annual exhibition of the Géklen Belt Poultry and Pet Stock association of central Kansas will be held at 209 North Santa Fe avenue starting January 13. Secretary Sam E. Hoover reports 600 to 700 catalogues mailed as lectures by authorities on poultry culture are planned to draw farmers. Notable speakers include Leese V. Hicks on Poultry for Profit and How to Produce Eggs in Midwinter, with judge C. A. Emery offering How to Select a Breed and How to Judge Your Own Birds. Major Sternberg of Ellsworth will lecture Friday and Saturday.
A Davenport Iowa resident Mrs Adolph Buesing reports a severe cold from twelve years ago progressed to asthma before Foley’s Honey and Tar was used. The ad claims many hopeless asthma cases were cured by the remedy and urges sufferers to seek medical help.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a non-alcoholic, triple-refined glycerine extract from roots. It claims to purify blood, regulate bowels, and ease catarrhal head and throat conditions, while warning no cure for advanced consumption and urging patient, prolonged use.
An indoor athletic meet for YMCA boys and nonmembers is planned for Saturday at the Association Building. The program features a competitive track segment and an aquatic meet including a candle swim and distance dives. Entry closes Friday at six, with free gallery admission and a focus on gymnasium progress under physical director Nelse Ockerbald.
Beginning last Sunday afternoon and continuing for several weeks, the Presbyterian and Christian churches unite for a Union revival led by Evangelists Wilhite and Adams. Wilhite preaches simply and powerfully, with no quackery, while Adams guides the music with charm. Pastors Elwood and Dodge foresee a great spiritual uplift for their churches and city Christians who will welcome this refreshment.
W V Henry of Panama Mo cites seven years of proof that Dr King’s New Discovery best for coughs colds throat chest and lungs. He notes the world has had thirty eight years of proof that the remedy is best for coughs and hay fever.
Across the nation tensions rise over high school fraternities as Sedalia Missouri schools threaten graduation bans for members. At Lawrence students debate fate of high school frats while national conventions plan four year phase out. A cold remedy ad closes the page with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE.
About 1000 people attended a New Year's dinner hosted by Thomas Lee in Perry. Local events included B F Wizer delivering a wagon load of chickens and Will Swadley shredding corn for Billy Fitzpatrick. Miss Nora Morgan returned to Holton to continue schooling after a two week visit with her parents. Jennie Patrick and Anna Carter of Lawrence visited cousin Ella Brass. Lecompton State Bank held its annual meeting with officers re elected and boosted dividends amid rising deposits. Anzanette Stone left for Baldwin to finish a teaching term. W E Stone hosted a dinner in honor of Mrs Knerr of Abilene, with Rev Herrick and several others.
A medical ad extols Foley's Kidney Cure claiming universal benefit for kidney and bladder disease. It asserts the remedy cures all forms and strengthens the kidneys and related organs, urging broad use for health improvement.
A fashion item declares white as the prevailing shade and notes its broad appeal. The piece suggests even white lies find popularity, reflecting a playful take on color and style in current trends.
An aged advertisement touts Orino Urino Laxative Fruit Syrup as permanent relief for habitual constipation by stimulating the liver and restoring natural action without nausea or griping. It praises pleasant taste and urges avoiding substitutes from Barber & Son. When tables start they come one's way like a string of beads.
An old advertisement urges readers to use Dr Kinz's New Life Pills to prevent biliousness malaria and jaundice. Priced 25e the product is sold at Barber & Son's drug store amid loud warning rhetoric from a blind man threatening violence.
First notice states that on December 30 1907 William E Moak was appointed and qualified as executor of Arthur J Moaks estate by the Probate Court of Douglas County Kansas. The second notice to creditors and interested parties announces a February 3 1908 hearing for final accounting and discharge of Arabella P Barber executrix of John Barber estate.
Notice of annual stockholders meeting for Watkins National Bank of Lawrence Kansas to elect directors. Meeting at bank office in Lawrence from 11 a m to 3 p m on Tuesday January 14 1908. C H Tucker cashier. Lawrence Kansas December 2 1907. First published Lawrence Daily Journal December 24 1907.
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