Personal notices from Horton visit Kansas City trips
Local society brief lists Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thompson and others traveling to Kansas City for visits and summer activities. Helene and Ruth Thomas plan Waterville Kansas travel to visit aunts while Kathrine Jackman spent in Kansas City. Other residents are noted for day trips and a church group advertises ice cream sales at a band concert for 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Thompson
Horton
Kansas City
Thompson
Helene Thomas
Ruth Thomas
Waterville
Kansas
R. C. Jackman
Kath
Rine Jackman
F. W. Hosford
M. E. Littell
George Dick
C. W. Smith
Harry Sibley
Laura A. Doane
Fred Doane
Chanute
Frank Doane
Christian Endeavor
The
Presbyterian Church
Central Park
J. F. Gimpse
Eudora
Carri
B. F. Crites
Fort Riley
J. D. Bowersock
Detroit
Michigan
R. S. Pearson
Marion
Curt
Preyer
Walker
Kans
Frank Preyer
Wendell P. Lyman
Topeka
Lawrence
Phi Delt
Loren Simons
Seneca
C. E. Ketels
Marie Ketels
C. F. Ross
Joseph Farrell
S. A. Robinson
Lincoln
Nebraska
Edna McVey
Elizabeth Griffith
Salt Lake City
Win Newmark
Warren Henley
Chicago
Chas, Edmonson
A. N. Palmer
Charles Dunlap
Northport
Mich
Floyd Lawrence
W. A. Dunmire
Dorothy
Nell Buchanan
Iola High School
F. A. Derby
Derby Grain Company
Ellen Edmonson
Texas
S. J. Hunter
Geneva
Why Wait for War to Learn Real Food Values
An advertising note claims digestion matters more than eating and promotes Shredded Wheat Biscuit as a complete food. It emphasizes whole wheat content, easy digestion, and suggests it can replace meat, eggs, and potatoes in meals. It mentions serving ideas with fruit and milk and cites Niagara Falls, New York as the point of manufacture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara
N. Y
Society Tour California and Summer Socials in Lawrence
The Lawrence society notes report Mrs F H Holder and daughters Frederika and Margaret leaving for Berkeley to join Prof Holder, with plans to tour California. Other items include house guests, embroidery club luncheon, beach party at North Lawrence, a seventeenth wedding anniversary, wife proverbs column, family dinner hosts, a children's party, an ice cream social, knitters and Ladies Aid meetings, a quiet wedding announcement in Liberty Missouri, and multiple interurban trips and campus summer activities with numerous named locals and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
F. H. Holder
Frederika
Margaret
Berkeley
Prof. Holder
Lemon Juice For Freckles Cosmetic Lotion Ad
Squeeze juice from two lemons into a bottle with three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. Grocers sell lemons and drug stores supply orchard white for a few cents. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes and whiten skin. Harmless.
Alkali in Soap Harms Hair Uses Coconut Oil Instead
A historical note warns that most soaps and preparations contain too much alkali, drying the scalp and making hair brittle. It recommends using ordinary malified coconut oil as a cleansing base, either alone or with two teaspoons, producing rich lather that rinses clean and leaves hair soft, shiny, and easy to manage.
How To Overcome Foot Troubles
A vintage ad copy promises relief for tired feet from Joe-Mint. It claims cooling healing benefits instantly ease pain from corns and calluses and can remove stubborn corn and callus buildup, keeping feet comfortable even on hot days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Songer
Attended Many Conventions i C J Eriksen
C J Eriksen returns from an east trip combining business with pleasure. He attended the Lutheran Church general synod in Chicago, the Furniture Exposition in Grand Rapids, and conventions in New York City and Chicago. On return he visited relatives in Providence and heard about Edison and furniture dealers meetings. Robert McFarland reports county wheat yields of 52 bushels per acre on four acres, ten acres averaging 46, field 32 bushels, the largest average yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. J. Eriksen
General Synod of the Lutheran Church
Chicago
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Mr. Edison
Lawrence
Eriksen
Furniture Dealers
Robert McFarland
Norway
Morris Named Ambassador to Japan by Philadelphia Leader
Roland S. Morris of Philadelphia was selected to be ambassador to Japan to succeed the late Guthrie. Morris, a Philadelphia lawyer, aligns with the reorganiz ation wing of Pennsylvania Democrats and has long opposed factions within the party. He was a former state chairman and backed President Wilson at the Baltimore Convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Japan
Washington
Roland S. Morris
Philadelphia
Guthrie
Rolands. Morris
Democratic Party
Pennsylvania
Ers
Wilson
Baltimore
Town Notes on Fountains Camps and War Time Life
A town column reports fountains restored in Central and South parks, Haskell students on leave, mothers vacationing, and Indiana boys working in Lawrence. It notes a forthcoming Christian Endeavor camp near Linwood, rain shortages, lawns drying, Dorsey and Bowen returning as First Kansas Infantry members, and women as ushers becoming common. Draft interest rises as Kansas faces 6439 men under the selective draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haskell
Indiana
Lawrence and I
Eli Dorsey
Jack Bowen
la Junta
Colorado
Lawrence
First
Kansas Infantry
Dorsey
U. S
Kansas
Douglas County
National Guardsmen Enlistment Noted Nearby
Brown bread ice cream at W S Ball Confectionery noted as a local novelty. A nearby enlistment of guardsmen is referenced, with an emphasis on distinctive regional offerings and post show dining options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weidemann’s
W.S. Ball Confectionery
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Kathryn Williams
Wallace Reid
Bertrand Sinclair
Sierras
Paramount Comedy
Anita Stewart
Message OF the
Fischer
Hester & Roberts Mfg
Opticians
Journal-World
Ord Dallond Nachman
Marian Stewart
Neice
Evelyn Stewart
Baldwin
A. A. Martin
Pueblo
M. C. Cannon
Helianthus Embroidery Club
Belle Senior
Waverly
Marcella Kennedy
Katherine Kennedy
St. Joseph
Catherine McCreath
B. H. Dale
Horace Tripp
North Lawrence
Hugh Keller
I. F. Eberhart
John Baker
P. C. Eberhart
Nearethy
Mary
C. E. Crane
State Journal
E. B. Gorsuch
Marion Gray
Yale Gray
Paul Gray
Beloit
Wisconsin
Mossback
Miss Baby
Johnnie Jimson
L. A
Miss Grand
Society
Jennie Laura Doane
Sisterhood of the First Christian Church
Lady League
Weaver's
M. KE
Crystal Wagner
Robert Price
Liberty
Price
H. R. Wagner
W. S. Price
United Presbyterian Church
Gazette Printing Co
Union Christian Endeavor Societies of
Harris Station
Cleta Johnson
Dora Pickard
Alcea
Johnson
Tennessee
Dorothy Durland
Ethel Dick
Alberta Harris
Agnes Crum
Gladys Cronemeyer
Charlotte Himoe
Madge Stauffer
Dora I'ckards
Cleta ‘Johnsén
Rence
Miss Baby Grand
S. A
Baby Grand
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Derby Grain Co
Lawrence, Kansas
Lee Green
S &S Grocery 101
West Eighth
Bell Brothers Music CO
Tales OF the Town
Iity
Central
South Parks
Linwood
Salina
Gooditch
Massachusetts
National Guardsmen
Carrie Conner
Louise Dietz
Wiedemann
John Kahne
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