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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
7
A Kansas city tale describes two youth brothers who glued a colored map puzzle to a board to learn street names and routes. They later start a parcel and shand-bidl service while praising practical map knowledge. The piece also argues wrong valuations cause misery and faith plus courage can overcome difficulties.
A damaged fragment notes that speech and buzzing noises blend into confusion as voices grow louder, hinting at a chaotic scene where understanding fades and meaning becomes elusive. The text conveys muffled communication and increasing din without clear context or names.
A garbled sale list highlights various food items and bulk goods with prices, including flour buckwheat and graham, pickled pork and sausage per pound, mixed beans, pickled feet, kraut, olives, whitefish and herring, codfish, cheese and mince meat. Advertising tone promises bargains across groceries with names like Sensation Coffee and Good Coffee.
Publication notice in Lawrence Daily Journal World January issue announces Reinhard Maul estate in Douglas County Kansas. Edward Maul is administrator requesting sale of real estate to pay debts with a hearing set in the Douglas County Probate Court on a stated date.
Market reports show strength in livestock and poultry with straight demand for dressed beef and cows. Wheat futures reflect steady government prices with January and May values noted, while overall market activity is described as steady with cattle and hog receipts running.
The passage outlines core bee types, identifying the honey bee and bumble bee as the most important. It then lists the cuckoo bee, carpenter bee, and rmson, Jeaf-cutting end potter bee as next in importance, in a fragmented historical note.
159 acres well located with 150 tillable 10 hog tight 7 room house acetylene lights 40x60 barn 30x40 grainery and out buildings. Price 10500. 120 acres 15 minutes from Lawrence inter urban station 80 acres bottom land 7 room house best watered stock barn price 15000 half cash. 320 acres stock farm 240 tillable 55 alfalfa 60 brush pasture fenced goat tight 100 acres under plow balance bluegrass price 60 per acre. 20 acres good improvements 3 miles out cheap at 5500. Hosford Inv and Mtg Co 824 Mass St.
A traveler learns three men a tinker, a carpenter, and a shoemaker, once idle in Messingham churchyard, agree to make bells for the church. They craft three bells of tin wood and leather and install them, each bell producing its own distinct chime ting tank pluff.
Scientific American questions the assumption that life must travel between worlds via meteors or atmospheric escape. It notes the plausibility of life seeding from space but argues that life could originate anew on a cooling planet, challenging the exclusive panspermia view with a call to consider de novo genesis.
Market listing shows rib roast shoulder roast boiling beef sirloin porter houses round steak and pork chops pork steak bacon squares brisket bacon green ground beef in a dense sale page with fragmented item names and no prices.
A quotation urges lifelong study noting the world’s folly in thinking learning ends at school. It stresses continued discipline and curiosity as a path to wiser living.
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