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Advertising offer promises to build a home on the buyer’s lot with monthly payments. It questions rent value and promotes ownership through installment construction.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1906
Page
4
Advertising offer promises to build a home on the buyer’s lot with monthly payments. It questions rent value and promotes ownership through installment construction.
Local yarded stock appears at L. GL. Phillips and Company for distribution. Market analysts note steady demand across the region with steady pricing and forthcoming shipments expected to meet current orders.
Tam sells at public auction a two story brick and stone building with a present bid of 3750 dollars in cash.
Notice to Gas Consumers describes gas stove and chandelier repairs and services at 612, with estimates given. The piece shifts to Olmsted's Pharmacy offering medicines and sundries, and references Raymond's Pure Meat Smoke for meat preservation. Includes ad for J H Gillham & Co horseshoeing at 708 Vermont, Squires for pictures, Ed Manter wagon hauling, and Olmsted's full line of toilet soaps and perfumes.
Advertises a children's coat sale with multiple reduced prices listed, urging early arrival tomorrow morning to take advantage of the discounts. Includes price points such as 8.25, 16.50, 15.00, 7.50, and 5.00, implying tiered offers across sizes and years.
The Horticultural Society held its last meeting Saturday January 20 1906 at the courthouse with a well attended program and a focus on preventing incursions into neighboring orchards by the Alaskell ladies. James Matos, president of the association, attended and urged action to stop pests. Farmers suggested growing more asparagus and canning products to supplement fruit sales. Mrs C H Hoyt read a paper on American birds as the secretary sang the Horned Owl. Also noted are coal services by Russell Sparks Co and Prof Carl Preyer's new musical text Twelve Wrist Studies. Dr Nordenskjold of Upsala University will speak at University Hall Saturday night on his polar exploration experiences. Discounts on framing at Wall's Book Store. Sonretoer Restaurant moved to 923 Mass St to expand business.
Clyde Fitch's popular stage play It Froman in the Usage will be staged at the opera house next Friday. The production has enjoyed multiple Broadway runs including a four show streak at Herald Square Theatre and a Madison Square Garden engagement during its current tour in New York.
The YMCA celebrates securing bowling alleys with Hugh Blair preparing balls and pros and a double set. Trovillo and Kreider fund lumber and special timber for lanes. Alleys to be installed by early March. Donors praised for public spirit.
Dr J D Bancroft, former resident of this city, promotesFree Homes for Consumptives at Salida Colorado The plan offers land under irrigation and fenced with a cottage and pasture near the Little Arkansas River The project aims to provide land to cultivators raise vegetables berries and milk cows with meals and beds to cure consumption and become self supporting when the farm is ready Political campaigning begins as candidates enter the race for county offices.
The funeral of Jas G Gully was held at 2 o'clock today from the family home near Bismarck. Burial was at Oak Hill Cemetery. He died Sunday of pneumonia at age C2. Also notice school supplies for the new term at Mrs Prentiss Home Store.
An assorted advertisement lists choicest coffee tea and spices at Mrs Prentiss Home Store Dr Snyder s Remedial Soap for the skin and mentions The New Home Sewing machine top on the market Customers invited to inspect Spring and Summer samples and new styles French dry cleaning delivery service and repair of machines Also promotion for gas stoves lamps and kitchen appliances from GEO W Bavage at 910Massachusetts Street with Bell phone 657 red
City Clerk's Office Lawrence Kansas announces that poll books for voter registration are now open. Electors may register by appearing at the office to comply with the law. Signed by F I Brooks.
Spring is Coming in Innes Store. Everything must make way for it. Misses and Womens coats and suits offered in high class tailoring. Stock features notably fine garments at bargain prices this season.
The ad promotes 50c Japan Silks at 39c per yard with half silk and 30 inches wide, highlighting new sheer silk suitable for waist and evening gowns and bridesmaids dresses. Also mentions 31o inches wide silk at 39c, Lansdowne colors, and the world’s finest silk and wool dress fabric at $1.25 per yard, perforated every three yards on the selvedge.
Rushing out at 5oc. There is a quantity of dark colors stripes and tiniest of pin dots. Just suited for waists or whole gowns. Many patterns will soon be exhausted.
Poor Commissioner Green notes fewer requests for aid and coal needs rising, citing four years of change. He says the needy now seek self respect and education, the professional beggars have left for calmer climes, and Douglas County has escaped a generation of paupers once seen in the old world.
The incubator baby case continues to captivate the city with strong expectations that Mrs. Bleakley will keep the infant. A higher court possibility looms as Judge Smart prepares to issue a decision Thursday afternoon. The trial crowd remains large amid widespread discussion of the outcome.
Three Black men John Johnson Andree McMill Percy Logan were named as suspects in the late winter robbery of J M Elliott. A confession from one held in the Kansas reform school pointed to the trio, who reportedly fled from the south after robbing Elliott’s chicken house and stealing 10 75. Sheriff Woodward pursued the case, calling the act one of the county’s most atrocious crimes and urging punishment to ensure safety after dark in Lawrence and Douglas County.
Darry W. Williams a negro, arrested in Lawrence last night, confessed to drilling into the Merchants National Bank of Topeka vault. He reached the vault Sunday but fled as it contained 673,000. He was nabbed while disposing of bank stamps. Williams said he began work last Wednesday under the bank basement. The piece also notes that the second term of city schools starts Monday January 20 with examinations and a new primary class for six-year-olds. Forty four eighth graders are to be promoted to high school Monday.
The overnight low and winds eased as the town woke to a sunny forenoon. Down town thermometers showed 11 at one hour and 7 this morning, with a calmer night and a blizzard scare fading. Sheriff Woodward said he suspects the right parties who assaulted and robbed Mr. Elliott. Del Woodruff faced county court on a seduction charge, trial set for next Thursday. The Perry barn of Harry Sutter burned last night, with 3000 bushels wheat, 250 bushels corn, 15 tons hay, a team of horses, implements, and harness lost, insured portion $4,500. General officials Metcalf Drew and Hughes attend Interstate National Guards convention in Washington.
The Kansas alumni group in New York City plans its first banquet on January 2, with 126 of about 2,000 Kansans in the city being KU graduates. The Technological Society of Kansas City met with Dr. F A Snow of the University of Kansas addressing an illustrated lecture. Kansas University and Baker University debaters to meet next spring. KU Y M C A and YWCA will send fifteen delegates to the Inter national conference in Nashville, February 28 to March 4, a gathering every four years drawing about four thousand attendees from the U S Canada and abroad.
The German department reports 2875 pupils statewide study German in 103 accredited schools. Two year courses exist in 62 high schools, three year courses in 33, and four year work in seven. Wichita leads with 150 pupils, Lawrence has 148. Of 93 teachers, 46 hold university degrees. BH Henderson offers saddlery and harness services at 635 Massachusetts Street.
Walter Flory, a 12 year old, drowned Sunday while drawing water from a well at his father's Marion township home. The father, who has cared for the children since the mother died about a year ago, is heartbroken by the loss.
Duke Maxstead arrested Saturday for drunken beating of his wife faced trial in police court. His wife and three sisters sought release rather than testify. Judge Merger fined Maxstead 25 plus costs totaling 6 36. He plans to appeal to the district court. K Osborne faced charges of stealing corn from the Santa Fe yard. Corn in shelled sacks leaked along the yard to his Delaware street home. he pleaded not guilty and trial set for Friday morning.
Kansas City and Chicago market wire update reports cattle, hogs, and grain prices with varied daily gains and losses. Cattle ranges show 12 600 native steers and 2 000 stockers while hogs trade around 5 40 to 85 50. Wheat and corn futures list May July and Sept with mixed prices and cash mentions. Home made chili at Mrs Williams bakery closes the item.
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