Evening Gossip Echoes Lawrence Social Scene
A rambling society column from Lawrence sketches a Saturday at Dr A J Andersons with Miss Bessie Anderson hosting a large informal dance. The piece riffs on local flirtations, troupes from the Airdome, a weekend camp near Lecompton with fish tales, a Tucson Arizona wedding of Miss Lois McKenzie to Mr Henry G Oldson, and club gatherings at Mead and Merchants Athletic Association events plus a Timber Island picnic and a park picnic for Miss Kate Caldwells music class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.J. Anderson
Bessie Anderson
Lois McKenzie
Henry G. Oldson
Brooklyn
Tucson
Arizona
C.F. Richardson
Wheatley
Methodist Church
Richardson
Tucson Daily Star
Timber Island
Merchants Athletic Association
Mediaeval Tendencies Reappear in Modern Boroughs and Town Seals
The London Globe notes a drift toward mediaeval forms in new boroughs and universities, with Edinburgh proposing scarlet gowns and Belgian towns seeking royal permission to restore ancient civic seals. Some communities possess actual pre 1794 seals bearing the Golden Fleece collar and the motto g des Juren de Montbilart. The piece closes with a wry line on marriage and social ascent.
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Vuciversities
Edinburgh
Belgium
Ransar
Thudinic
Chimay
Montbulart
G. Des Juren de
Montbilart
Loedon Globe
Early 18th Century Mothers Use Birch to Teach Letters
John Wesley's mother enforced strict birching to teach his alphabet, locking herself away for six hours with the child and driving the lessons with a rod. Madam Quinet, a French contemporary, employed a constable to flog her children twice weekly, escalating punishment for perceived naughty behavior.
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John Wesley
Untitled fragment on a Western robbery encounter
Dialogue captures a Western robbery scene as a robber demands money while a tourist resists. The exchange hints at a passenger alighting at the next station and a tipped porter influencing the encounter. The fragmentary OCR yields limited contextual clarity.
Lawrence Kansas ordinance levies street paving assessments
First published July 11 1910 Ordinance 576 levies a special tax to pay for grading curbing and paving Louisiana Street from Warren to Berkeley Street. Assessments listed for numerous lots in Lane's Second Add plus sections. Also Ordinance 579 levies provisional sewer construction assessments for a lateral sewer from Ontario Street into Babcock's Addition to a flush tank at Block Seven Six.
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Lawrence Daily Journal
Louisiana Street
Warren Street
Berkeley Street
Lawrence
Kansas
Herkeley Street
Louisiana St
East
Lane
Conneil
D. Bishop
Artest
F. D. Brooks
Ontario Street
Babcock
Lawrence City Ordinances Levy Sewer Assessments Additions
City ordinances from 1910 detail lateral sewer projects in Babcock's and Sinclair's Additions Lawrence Kansas with levied special assessments on lots abutting the sewer lines. Amounts and lots are listed including Block 6 and 7 Babcock's Add and Block 32 Quivera in Sinclair's Addition, with various parcel values and payment terms.
Lawrence City Ordinance Levies Sewer Assessments on Babcock Addition
An ordinance in Lawrence Kansas levies special assessments on numerous lots in Babcock's Addition for the cost of constructing a lateral sewer from the main sewer in Ontario Street to near Banks Street. The posted schedule lists many lots with specific assessment amounts, reflecting the council’s approval on July 7, 1910, by F. D. Brooks as clerk.
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Sinclair
Lawrence
Kansas
Mississippi
University
Miss
Til. St
Miss & HL St
Ti. St
NL St
D. Bisitop
F. D. Brooks
Lawrence Daily Journal
Pinckney Street
Mississippi Street
Illinois Street
Mississippi and
Ilinois Streets
Winthrop Street
City of
Minois Streets
Minois
Pinckney St
Mississippi St
Ier
Misissippi St
Linois St
Illinois St
Llinois St
Minois St
Hingis St
Mlinois St
Tlinvis St
Dinuis St
S. D. Bishop
Baciatico Daily Journal
Ontario Street
Massachusetts
Vermont Street
Banks Street
Vermont
Babcock
Babeock
Babcock’s
Babcock’s Enlil
D. Bishop
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York
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Notting
Dickens
Scott
Thackeray
Poe
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Tissot
Shakespeare
THE
Werner Company
Akron
Lawrence Nationar
Watkins National Bank
J. B. Watking
Cal
Tucker
Aswt
J. B Watkins
Daliec
Takis Ake
Bier
Soinby Bregeists Art Wales
Jaedicke
F. M. Perkins
Frederick Crowe
Ioan
Rccoesnre Bank
Lawrie
Hugh Blair
Abe Wolfson
Mass
St. Lawrence
Airdome
West Lawrence
Ee Crete
Clint Kanaga
Clare Kreider
Lecompion
Mei Dell
Sue Fish
Mead Club
T Own
Kate Caldwell
Amisement Park
Towand Mediaevalism
Oru
Castor
Babecock
Morris St
Kentucky St
Morris ‘St
Tenn
Ste
Baheoek
Babeoek's
Connell
Brooks
Neck
Smith
City of Lawrence
University Grounds
Ilinois
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