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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
5
A mixed directory page lists professional abstracts of title firms, lawyers, physicians, and a health note. Names include Frank E. Banks, Oscar E. ae Rooms, B V Pardee, James H. Mitchell, C C Stewart, Mary L. Estabrook, H J Blair, G W Jones, with offices at F A A Building, Perkins Trust Building, Bowersock Building, and Lawrence Hospital. Also a humorous Farm Life blurb about red noses from tears and stools.
Market report notes cash wheat steady to mixed, with No 3 white bids around 31 cents and mixed prices for other grain types. Sparse lines reference futures movements, city prices, and regional bids, highlighting varied futures and cash activity in early January trading.
Fragmentary OCR item records a price of $1.55 and a date in May with codes 186 BRI tae sede DARL Jat. S14. The readable fragments hint at a commerce entry or notice but lack full context or clear entities.
A Kansas City Star item notes a stenographer cleverly handling a boss word she cannot spell by looking it up in the dictionary, turning a misspelling into a teaching moment and signaling potential career success.
A feature notes that shadows from the Teneriffe peak on the Canary Islands reach about fifty miles across the sea, sometimes overlapping neighboring islands. The report reflects on how massive mountain shadows appear to travelers and observers.
An older saying warns against speaking of delicate topics in mixed company, advising careful topic introduction. The Soap Berry Tree grows in western Ecuador, reaching about fifty feet with fruit used as soap due to its saponaceous skin and pulp.
A California farmer improvised a hand plow from an old bicycle frame. He removed the handlebar, turned it back, and fixed it in the frame. A large gate valve wheel serves as the moldboard, attached with a U-bolt to the frame.
The text recounts explorers Stanley and Fearl, Africa, and their methods fooling game and natives. It mentions a chicken mystery where two men buried a chicken in a garden, then searched, finding nothing and joking it had “gone to heaven.” It includes brief, fragmented notes on essays, funnies, and quotes about elephants, ingenuity, and curiosity.
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