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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1918
Page
5
Cincinnati authority warns against corn cutting citing risk of lockjaw and blood poisoning. An ad touts freezone cost and seems to remove corn painlessly with a few drops, claiming it dries, shrivels the corn, and allows the root to be lifted with fingers. notes its effect on high heel wearers.
Thursday evening at the Maffet home east of town a musical program for the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church featured Ralph Lenig tenor William Dalton cellist and Phillip Stevens pianist on the lawn. Lenig praised for lyric tenor voice and variety. Stevens solos anticipated since study in New York City. Lenig leaves for Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville and Shelby. Miss Lenga Wollamott to Camp Shelby Red Cross Nurse. Dick and Wilson couples attend Kansas City Triangle Club picnic at Forest Lake.
A vintage reproductive ad outlines a pregnancy aid product called Mothers Friend from Bradfield Regulator Co. It describes a dramatic transformation of a doll into a symbol of motherhood and promotes the external application to ease pregnancy and delivery. The piece urges readers to obtain the product through drugstores and to request the accompanying motherhood booklet.
Miss Mary Burnett hosts a linen shower for Miss Ruth Buchanan with gifts and knitting, as a prelude to her upcoming marriage to Lieut A R Rader of Garden City New York. A line party at the Varsity and a camp fire gathering highlight social happenings. Engagement announced for Frances Selig to Clifford Wilbur with wedding this month in Lawrence Kansas. Birth announced for Mary Alice Gorrill.
A home beauty remedy instructs squeezing two lemons into three ounces of Orchard White to create a quarter pint of lotion. The advert claims it removes freckles sunburn windburn and tan, leaving skin soft and white. It notes lemons are available in grocers and Orchard White costs only a few cents.
James A Worthington has arrived safely overseas. Miss Mable McNary visits Garnet for weekend. Mrs Belle Harwood back in Kansas City after short visit in Lawrence. Jack Quinlin returns home from Blackwell Oklahoma. J M Neville departs for Denver to spend rest of summer. Mrs J W Jenkins travels to Rosedale to visit ill daughter. Mrs C R Andrews goes to Kansas City to visit daughter. McNish advertises Puritan water delivery phone 198. Mrs N Warner of Kansas City returns home after visit with Mrs Fred Kester. McNish promotes aerated distilled water. B L Seybold, W Reynolds, J W Malloy and Sid Foreman drive to Lawrence. Dwight Seybold joins returning from University.
Rev. H. A. Doty and family motor from Waynok Oklahoma to visit Mrs. R. T. Cruse. Mr. Henderson Martin spent today in Kansas City. Mrs. J. W. Warner of EaJanta Col. is visiting Mrs. J. R. Woodward.
Mr and Mrs Byron Brown, who departed on an overland trip to Rebere, Massachusetts, have arrived at their destination.
Lieut. Cargill Sproul, former University of Kansas student and city editor of the Journal-World, has been commissioned as second lieutenant in the aviation corps. He proceeds to Camp Dick, Texas, for active service after training at the aviation school in Rantoul, Illinois. He may serve as an instructor for aviators in Texas.
The historical note attributes to Palamedes the invention of guarding a camp with picket sentries and the use of the water word. This claims a conceived signaling term tied to sentry duty and camp defense attributed to him. The passage reflects a traditional attribution of early guard practices to Palamedes.
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