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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1910
Page
2
Lawrence Journal highlights speculation on governor race and party lines. It questions Republican primary loyalties, cites a $100 reward for Democrat voting, and comments on state railroad board achievements. It also mentions editorials on Kansan politics, faith cures, and health remedies.
Charles Myers travels to Oklahoma on business. Mrs Daniels visits her mother Mrs Hoffman with two children. Mrs Chas Manwar ing visits her father in Topeka due to death in the family. Pleasant Hour ladies invited to Kanwaka Literary Club picnic at Mrs Guy’s home. School meeting Thursday at the schoolhouse. Mr William Martin returns from Holton visit. Mrs Browning and Mrs Martin’s mother improving. Miss Mable Martin resting at home. Miss Marthy works as stenographer in Kansas City. After a marriage at the Lutheran parsonage, MyrtIe Cavanaugh and Wm Wiggins host a shower at the Martins' home with about forty relatives attending. Napoleon's Grit praised as cure for cold and lung ailments. Dr King’s New Discovery advertised with prices and trial bottle. Nell Maude admires slender waistline noted as the line of least resistance.
An old advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as swift relief for hay fever and asthma, claiming it eases head and throat congestion. It warns to insist on the yellow package and to reject substitutes, and mentions Dr Thomas Electric Oil for general pain. The piece also contains a quip about women managing husbands.
An old advertisement extols Eclectric Bitters as a tonic to revitalize digestion and restore boyhood vigor. It promises renewed appetite and vitality for Stomach Liver Kidneys Bowels, with a 30¢ price. Also includes a notice about a smoker girl in the swim and a health claim for Hall's Catarrh Cure offering a $100 reward for cure via constitutional treatment.
A curious departure from glass forms, wooden beads come in natural or intense barbaric shades. They lack dust, feel pleasant to the eye, and are strung on coarse thread to form hats, belts, and decorative tassels. Color matching dyed beads enhance gowns and scarves for various outfits.
An old newspaper fragment touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as earth’s greatest healer for cuts bruises and burns with quick relief and cure claims. It also Markets other remedies including a pile cure and constipation pills priced around 23 to 25 cents, from local merchants.
Mrs. Everingham matron of the union depot doubts kindness to traveling girls. A small eight year old arrived with two large suitcases and a basket of preserves. She offered to keep the heavier luggage for the mother to call for later, prompting a sharp rebuke from a municipal official who claimed the act cost ten cents.
An historian of invention recounts how a English blacksmith's son Harrison devised needle bends to safeguard his crying infant brother. The father seized the idea, perfected the design, and produced the safety pin now used worldwide. The tale ponders whether the baby’s tears sparked the invention or fate did.
A long, vivid account of sliding in baseball and its dangers to runners and infielders. The piece compares sliding to football tackling, notes injuries and bravery, and follows a dramatic late inning rally as a pinch hitter drives in the winning run while base runners execute daring slides.
A feature on Miss Alice Martin promoting esthetic dancing as a free form exercise for women and girls. It describes open air dancing, wind and movement creating a sense of joy, bodily freedom, and the appeal of near barefoot technique amid fashion circles. The piece notes growing popularity and benefits for grace, strength, and endurance.
The readable fragments discuss health and exercise ideas with garbled wording. It mentions effort, discipline, and mental focus as keys to well being and strength, urging steady practice and persistence.
Kidney and bladder ailments are described as serious and potentially fatal if untreated. Foley Kidney Pills are claimed to be harmful and untrustworthy with dubious tests and false endorsements. A dubious advertising claim references Barber & Sen Anathea Bicker and mentions supposed relief and medical failures.
Bizarre ad copy touts pills claimed to cure constipation headaches chills malaria and more. It promises strength vigor and brain power with a dramatic health transformation. The vague claims target general wellness with little verifiable detail and read like an old newspaper marketing insert.
Mrs Mollie Meaney of Prentiss Mississippi writes that after months of kidney and bladder trouble and unsuccessful trials with other medicines she found relief using Foley’s Kidney Remedy. She asserts the product cured her ailment and highly recommends it to others suffering kidney and bladder issues.
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