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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1927
Page
9
Incomplete OCR reads as a note about a ceremony with invited guests and attendance remarks. The fragment mentions Ven Grantham, Feehan, and a policy on attendance yet lacks full context or identifiable events.
An unclear note describes Barbara Barondess in Times Square involving a bouquet and prophecies amid a national crisis. Mentions twenty four bishops and a Miss Pengarth death with unclear context and references to a National Lab and Psychical Research.
A collection of local social updates lists visits and travels around Franklin County. Names include Rhoiles Wak Galleteks Myers Cronemeyer Gruver Angell Storie and Spoor with connections to Kansas City Topeka Lawrence Goddard Fort Leavenworth and Winfield. Relatives attended picnics and funerals. several residents traveled for holidays and visits.
Cea Florida and Mr and Mrs A L Knox took a business trip to Leavenworth on Thursday. Several weddings and engagements are noted including Regina ai aRine and Edgar ue Ih. the August home wedding is planned. A plumbing business purchase by George Johnson is mentioned along with a reunion party at the H M Cox home featuring many local families. Community events include a swimming carrier, alfalfa growers school, and a state lake survey, while road and electricity improvements and social gatherings are also listed. Further items cover whooping cough, Kansas City trips, and various local hospitality notices.
The auditorium on the State University campus showcases interior plaster decoration integral with the final coat. C D Cuthbert designs the scheme, using a mineral pigment plaster that provides permanent, uniform color for walls and ceilings in buff and cream tones. Hoovers plastering handles the application under Green’s supervision, with Logan-Paul Lumber supplying ten tons of colored plaster from a Unit ed States Grossolm mill. Three Men in a Boat Moscow artists depart for a 2000 mile voyage from Moscow to Astrakhan via rivers and Volga. Mrs Shaw visits Kansas City.
A collage of old style instructions covers fabric care patterns vinegar fruit wine making desserts and carpet beetle extermination. It includes guidance on stain removal bluing powder making and serving desserts with seasonal fruit showing practical household advice and a Niagara Falls joke ending with questions about the falls.
Eight year old Anita May Andrews in New London plans a summer as an acrobatic clown with the circus, following a family tradition since her father was a circus clown. Her father says acrobatic work is beneficial for a child, though she is not expected to spend life in the sawdust ring. Miss Elsie N. Steed and Miss Ruby Smith traveled to Leavenworth to spend the day.
In a clear sale listing shoppers are offered women dresses and navy suits in various fabrics at drastic markdowns. Prices drop from 45 to 3.88 for a seasonable voile dress and Sunbeam rayon street frocks at 5.95 to 6.95, with broad selections and additional discounts on wool jersey silk dresses and swimming suits.
An advertisement touts a rare mix of house frocks Handy Dandy items and a limited run of two for a dollar. It also promotes a kiddies raincoat with hood and notes a dolls price.
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