Architect Discusses Nave Visit Stirring Church Gossip
An architect told a woman he had seen the great nave in the new church, prompting the lady to name the man he referred to. The exchange underscores circulating rumors in the social circle.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1919
Page
3
Homemade lemon juice facial lotion for clear skin
An old recipe claims mixing juice of two lemons with three ounces of orchard white creates a gentle facial lotion. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to reduce freckles and blemishes, yielding soft rosy skin. The remedy is described as harmless and non irritant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemons and Fanny
American girl recalls German prison ordeal amid treason charge
Margargé Gentz, born American, recounts a week in a Berlin prison awaiting execution for espionage followed by five months among criminals. She says a prison mail communication with her father in the United States led to her conviction and claims commutation due to German officers using similar methods. Gentz, who married German Richard Fuhrman in 1909, worked as a censor at Doeblitz before her sentence was commuted and she was moved to Gottus women’s penitentiary among murderers and other inmates. She describes wardens as “devils” and notes some inmates went insane. She arrived on the Lorraine after studying art in 1907 and returning from Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Margargé Gentz
Europe
Lorraine
Gentz
United States
Dueblitz
Berlin
Abs. Gentz
Germany
Richard Fuhrman
Doeblitz
Gottus
Sates
Unusual Rain Raises Water Well Contamination Risk
Rainfall this spring and summer boosts bacteria in well water per Miss Nellie Schneider from the university water analysis lab. City wells are tested weekly, with county samples free. individual well tests cost 2.50 plus a 5.00 chemical analysis fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa Nellie Schneider
University Water
Cs Reat
University Labaretoey
City
Tom Rnvers
County Health J Officers
Pratt Leaders Plan $50,000 Memorial Hospital
Pratt Kansas July 1 leaders form a committee to finance a $50,000 hospital as a memorial to 708 Pratt county men who served. Funds will be raised by stock sales and the completed building turned over to the Red Cross chapter for operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pratt
Kans
Pratt County
Red Cross
Rush Wheat in June Stocks of Bread Stuffs
United States wheat movement for the week ending June 20 shows farm receipts at 2,320,000 bushels, down 120,000 from the prior week but up 625,000 from four years ago. Total wheat in country and terminal elevators on June 20 reached 43,234,000 bushels, higher than last year’s 14,321,000, with a drop of 6,990,000 from June 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
The
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Bust strike order prompts railway telegraphers to resume business
The Order of Railway Telegraphers lifts the ban on commercial work for Western Union and Postal Telegraph. Led by E. J. Manion the decision cancels the June 12 ban and directs members nationwide to resume handling commercial business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Order of Railway Telegraphers
Western Union and
Postal Telegraph Companies
E. J. Manion
Order of
Railway Telegraphers
Sinclair Plans Stock Increase at Special Shareholders Meeting
New York July 1. Directors of the Sinclair Oil and Refining Company have called a special meeting of shareholders for July 19 to authorize raising capitalization from 1.5 million shares to 2.4 million shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair
New York
Sinclair Oil & Refining Company
Lawrence Chamber Seeks Secretarial School Trip and Road Deals
At a luncheon the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce votes to send Secretary Sparks to an American City Bureau secretaries school at Eaglesmere Pennsylvania for ten days starting July 14. It also backs hard surfacing six miles of the Golden Belt road to connect with the Fort-to-Fort highway and seeks earlier Fort-to-Fort linkage with Shawnee county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
H. B. ‘Sparks
American City Bureau
Eaglesmere
Pao
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
F. H. Church
Housing Committee
W. C. Simons
Board of Directors
Good Roads Committee
Golden Belt
Jefferson County
State Highway Commission
Shawnee County
Fort-to-Fort
Ten Are Killed In New York Central Train Collision
Ten persons died and more than twenty were injured in a Dunkirk New York collision between New York Central trains. A tramp killed in the wreck was blamed as the probable cause after investigators found the air brake control shut off at the tramp’s location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
N. Y
New York Central
Railroad ‘Administration
Mighty Behemoths in Circus Draw Crowds
An 19th century style feature notes Big George the hippopotamus as the main attraction in a traveling circus. George is described as the largest hippo, worth 17000 dollars, touring the United States with clowns, acrobats, and a unique female gymnast. The article previews a show in Lawrence on Monday July 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yesteryear
Job
Big George
United States
George
Alere
Hegenbeck-Wallace
Us Ag
Lawrence
Pioneer Infantry 805th Headed West for Camp Funston
Telegram to Dr. F D G Harvey from W Brown in New York confirms the 805th Pioneer Infantry has begun a western journey from New York toward Camp Funston to receive discharges. The unit includes seventy Lawrence black soldiers and was to be paraded in Kansas City and Topeka. Mayor George Kreeck urged a stopover parade, but no official orders have been issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
805Th Pioneer Infantry
Camp Funston
F. D. G. Harvey
W. Brown
New York
805Th Regiment of Pioneer Infantry
Jorney
Sam Funston
Kansas City
Topeka
George Kreeck
War Department
Douglas county negro societies aid veterans return from France
W C Brown represented Douglas county negro patriotic societies in New York and accompanied the regiment on its westward trip as he helps welcome the boys home from France. In Washington, July 1, debate on the League of Nations resumed in the Senate with Senator Hitchcock Nebraska reading editorials from Stars and Stripes in support of popular sentiment for the League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Negro Patriotic Societies
Douglas County
New York
W. C. Brown
United States
France
Washington
League of Nations
Senate
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Foreign Relations Committee
Stars ‘Land Stripes
League
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