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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1909
Page
1
Registration notices from City Clerk F D Brooks in Lawrence Kansas advise electors how to register. Advertisements mention Thor motorcycles prices from 130 to 360 dollars, Roak Cycle Shop at 1017 Mass Street, and Lawrence Transfer Co. urging packing and moving by telephone in the era.
Notice also lists a public sale by Union Pacific Railroad of unclaimed freight on February 13 1909 at 10 00 am at the Lawrence depot. One carload of oak lumber consigned Wright Bros Watson Ark to Joa Sellmeyer Lawrence Kansas to pay charges and expenses.
The article discusses curing nervous disorders with Dr Williams Pink Pills and details river bank protection methods to prevent erosion. It notes local candidates and public notices about city offices and Republican primaries, including bids for mayor, treasurer, and council seats, plus engineering thoughts on preventing bank collapse.
Local advertisement offering top prices and honest weights for poultry eggs butter furs hides and junk. Encourages visitors or calls Bell 954. Signed by W E Neil located in Pendleton Building 737 North Hampstead Street.
Local notices promote Mrs Parker's Southern Skies comedy returns at Southern Skies Amusements with shows at Bowersock Opera House January 22 and 25. Hortense Nielsen heads a high drama company in Magda and reflects on Ibsen’s Doll’s House influence. Florence Gear stars in Marrying Mary with a bold Mary Montgomery role on January 26. Also includes political notices and candidacy declarations from E A Kasold and W Higgins for local offices.
A load of seven babies arrived in New Orleans from the New York Foundling and Orphan Asylum. Foster parents waited at the station to claim the infants for whom they had previously applied, amid efforts to secure suitable homes. Also notes two local council candidate announcements: J. W. Howard for Sixth Ward and W. T. Wutchin for a second term in the Fifth Ward, both subject to Republican primaries.
Topeka Jan 22 Sen C A Stannard of Lyon County introduced the strictest fire escape measure of the session. The bill requires all hotels over two stories to have outside metal fire escapes at both ends and a continuous hall. It adds an electrical alarm in every room, iron piping for office wires, a floor extinguisher or hose, a five eighths inch rope with knots every fifteen inches, and iron encasement for elevator shafts with automatic steel doors at every landing.
Washington reports that a general staff fortification plan for San Pedro harbor California was sent to Congress, but the War Department denied any imminent decision of trouble with Japan. Also notes on church union illegality in Kentucky and a clothing cleaning ad urging callers to the QO K Pantatorium.
A mixed sheet of municipal notices and anecdotes, including ordinances levying special assessments for paving alleys in Lawrence Kansas, names of city officials, and dates. It also mentions drawings about newspaper value, a strange tale of a man claiming a newspaper worth and a stray ad about Burdock Blood Bitters and Kings New Life Pills.
The sun returned after two weeks of cloud and wet conditions. Farmers benefited from snow melt aiding wheat, while recent damp spell lingered and hindered warmth. A Muskogee reader notes pleasant weather in Oklahoma, but night skies brought fog and dampness again.
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