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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1908
Page
1
Walling Haworth Rinker offers a seven room house with four closets, cupboard, well and city water in a good neighborhood, priced at 2000 dollars. Also selling an ice cream parlor outfit, restaurant outfit, two horses, two wagons, harness, and irrigated sands in Utah with Easy Terms, plus fawn and city property of all kinds. Come and see or write.
The text notes that a hand made cigar is a favorite and that a few puffs from such a cigar seem to make troubles vanish into smoke. It mentions Black Seal Prince of Wales and a collision involving the Indomitable and Prince of Wales near Portsmouth, with minor damage cited. Elks hold services and mourning at the lodge with electric lights and somber ambience.
Robert Patton, temporary chairman of the Prohibition National Convention, attacks liquor interests while praising Will Green in a county clerk race. The piece notes Patton's blunt address, the push for Wright or other leaders, and details about convention proceedings, with plans for a Chautauqua at Central Park.
Public health officials issued a pamphlet titled Swat the Fly to curb food borne infections in unsanitary grocery displays. It details regulations for sanitation in manufacturing, storing and selling foods and drugs and sidewalk displays, including penalties for noncompliance. The note spans local town visits and social briefs alongside the health advisory.
Perfect weather greeted Shriners in St Paul as the imperial council session opened. Arab patrols displayed exhibitions at Livingston Ball Park with 25 patrols participating after Imperial Potentate Frank Roundy announced no prizes would be awarded, removing competition but preserving the patrols ambition.
Kansas University professor James Campbell of the German department will go to Prussia in September for a year of work. A German professor will likely come to KU to take his place. Campbell, a Michigan graduate, has been an associate professor at KU for two years and will live in the campus dormitory, engaging with students in English about American topics.
Five Meire Ubes who terrorized the country after fleeing from the reservation in Leah will begin the 900 tile trip to Crab Friday under cay whey convert. The agreement is the milconnas at conference between the eljet tank Roosevelt.
Kansas City July 15 Jack Gallagher saloon keeper and political figure in the lower river ward was fined 500 dollars on two counts in police court this morning for disturbing the peace. He had assaulted Albert King and left him at the hospital before being rearrested after release.
A dynamite blast at a fashionable West Hathaway Street apartment house in New York injures no one publicly, but scatters occupants from beds, shatters windows and opens a large hole in the cement court. Forty two families housed there, motive unclear and no threatening letters found.
Cot. O. EB. Learnard supports the paper's stance urging urgent retrenchment in city spending. He calls for sustained effort, hoping Mr. Hazen will advance the work, insisting that action is needed now to stop annual deficits and reduce costs.
In Topeka a War Department engineer, W. H. DeWitt, arrived to study flood protection for the Kaw river. Piles in river banks and levee work are planned with plans and specs to be reviewed by the local drainage board. Senator Charles Curtis and War Department engineers will provide support at no cost. Also notes Moody of Kansas and Lawrence city bids for brick paving and sewers in Lawrence with multiple street projects and checks required.
In Hot Springs Virginia on July 15 district court decisions overruled motions for new trials in Heeves versus Scheer Shanke versus Santa Fe and Marks versus Limperakis. The titles were quieted in Farlow versus Ringulet and Martin versus Anderson. Blair versus Parker received an order of confirmation. Court adjourned until September. Bourne reconciled Taft Roosevelt split. Vorys heads Ohio campaign amid politics. Gas explosion at Williamstown coal mine may have killed twelve miners. Remains of Bishop Alfred A Curtis interred in Wilmington. Lawseat Electric Light pays city 305.75 for first half of year. Note urges safe drinking with Hyball Ginger Ale.
July 15 reports from Fairview Nebraska recount Bryan’s remarks after the Democratic committee’s stance on campaign contributions. He mocks a Republican pledge on disclosure, cites Chicago trip plans, and notes he will speak publicly after official nomination notification.
Grain and provisions prices and terms listed for futures and cash sales. Includes No 2 red wheat July and December, cash No 2 mixed and white corn, oats and timothy bids, with seasonal and prairie values shown in fragmented OCR.
Whitman's Corner advertises remaining sale offerings including 24 vacant lots in a single body priced at 2,250 and other properties described as good values at 4,500. The note mentions rentals loans and chattels with Alfred Whitman & Co at Room 6 F A Building as contact.
An old fashioned remedy called Wood ward's Blackberry and Kino is advertised for daily use at the Round Corner for diarrhoea dysentery and bowel complaints. Sold for 50 cents a bottle.
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