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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1918
Page
4
The Journal World lists church notices with service times across Episcopal, Evangelical, Methodist, and Baptist congregations. It includes morning prayers, litany, Union meetings, Sunday Schools, and a public park service, plus a note about deadlines for publication.
The page lists various medical ad pitches and a long assortment of church services. Boschee's German Syrup is promoted as a trusted cough remedy with emphasis on relief and rest. Multiple churches announce sermons and schedules across locations including First Church, Central, and United Brethren with Sunday and weekday services.
Town folk and visitors are listed with travels and returns. Miss Maurice Biggeersta comes from Springfield Colorado with relatives. Paul and Howard Fitts go back to Kansas City after visiting great aunts. Mrs. A Wellhouse Bullard attends a state meeting in Topeka. Several others, including Bert Harmon and Ruth Phenicie, travel to Lawrence or Reno for day trips and chores. Charles Papenhausen, at Camp Vaile New Jersey, returns furlough home with siblings in military service.
Rev Giage of the local Methodist church has completed studies at Baker University and leads a summer union of four area churches with 8 30 p m services in the Royal Weet. A large crowd attended last Sunday and music is promised. attendees are invited. Nearby social notes mention travels and visits by residents to Kansas City Leavenworth and Lawrence, with several names and brief movements.
Douglas County land draws strong demand with a record 400 dollars per acre. The Sutton fifty eight acre tract near Lawrence sold for 17 500 dollars in Tulsa buyer J yon from Oklahoma received the Tulsa property as part of the payment. Sutton place praised for county agricultural value and Lawrence access. Also note apricot special ice cream offer and unclaimed birdhouses from a chamber contest remain to be claimed by owners.
Mrs. Carrie Jordan of Madison Indiana reports six weeks of itchy red pimples that turned watery and dried. After using two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and three cakes of Cuticura Soap she recovered, praising daily Cuticura cleansing and occasional ointment applications.
A spirited message declares real patriots and Native Americans united in a broad wartime mobilization, urging commitment at every angle and promoting national solidarity during conflict.
Reports from Indian reservations show near 20 000 Red Cross members donations over 340 000 dollars and gifts of garments and knitted goods. Tribes auctioned bead work and donated wool for uniforms while girls and schools knit caps and quilt blocks for refugees as war effort expands nationwide.
Sincere praise of President Wilson's leadership in the war and his advocacy of a league of nations after the war was given by Herbert H. Asquith in an address to a liberal club. The hospitality dinner for American officers drew 500 English hosts and ended with an ovation for the President.
A public endorsement recounts Lawrence Pen and Mrs. W. Peterson praising Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from kidney pain and urinary disorders. Testimony notes long term satisfaction with continued use five years later, supported by local citizen Seth Lawrence and the Peterson family. Sold everywhere with the Dean trademark.
New York auditors reveal that German bonds bought in the U S funded a broader campaign to sway American opinion in favor of Germany. Aunt Von Bernstorff and Dr B Heinrich Albert allegedly had carte blanche from Berlin and the sums involved totaled in the millions.
Camp Funston installs a coffee roasting plant with 3000 pounds daily capacity to ensure fresh coffee for soldiers. Officials say coffee quality boosts morale, especially in winter when demand spikes. The roaster will be placed near Warehouse No. 7 and fueled by coke.
Linwood, long a prosperous farming center, forms Sunshine Soap Powder Company stockholders and directors include leading local figures. The plant has begun manufacturing soap powder in quantity under J D Diffee, who says the formula removes the caustic potash principle that makes the soap destroy what it touches while preserving cleansing power.
Demonstrations aim to prove the worth of a new formula with Linwood capital showing interest. A plant is in operation and the product is being marketed.
State Council of Defense organizes two volunteer medical service corps per county in Kansas under its supervision. Doctors over 55 or rejected by the army medical service are eligible, forming a home reserve to aid civilian practice during war demands. Shawnee County has 22 physicians and plans to reach 40 within a month. The piece ends with a quip about marriage and companionship.
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