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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1903
Page
4
The text reports on imminent completion of Pierson mill work and machine setup for operations. It notes expectations for basing, wheat purchases, and machinery arrivals amid a teachers meeting and ongoing discussions about algebra class instruction led by Mr Bowman.
A garbled Lawrence newspaper page highlights a funeral notice for Colwell and scattered items from sports, education, theater, and community updates. It mentions deaths, university staff discussions, musical instruction plans, and local social notices amid a broad touristy and civic snapshot.
Despite a slow season, Lawrence area factories run at peak capacity. The hearse and paper mills operate at full speed with new machines and plans to expand. In town, a fire injures Mrs. Cythinia Widemer of Armourdale, while a Colman resident suffers burns from a stove blaze. A doctors versus lawyers baseball game ends with a medical win.
HOADLEY'S sells water coolers of all kinds and sizes. Nate Miller, a visitor at the University of Kangas, left for Colorado after a good year. A pavement project on Ohio Street south of Winthrop Street nears completion. A stove explosion damaged stock at E M Huckies store on North Third Street. Hochin's property valued at $1,390. Large rocks lifted from a wagon were dropped into the river weighing about 4,600 pounds. The University summer session at Kansas closes tomorrow afternoon. The library board opened bids for a Carnegie Library project. Classifieds include rooms for rent and available services at the Journal office, and local ice cream flavors at Wiedemann.
A chaotic collection of weather, civic, and local business items from Lawrence outlines a thunderstorm, a brick shipment to Oklahoma and Nebraska, council and township notices, social events, and departures. Reports on street conditions, river levels, a railroad accident, and church services are interwoven with town chatter and public notices.
A flood of names surfaces from Topeka and nearby towns as regents, engineers, and businesspeople travel to Lawrence for meetings and site visits. Notable movements include Me TW Butcher from Wallington and Mr M Wilhelmi heading to Kansas City on business, alongside others visiting for bridge surveys, library projects, and summer planning.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a violent incident involving a Black man lynched amid a tense gathering. The text references local committees and officials, with names like Washington, Monroe, and Churchill, and notes on arrangements for a Grand Army event and related finances.
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