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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1906
Page
2
The speaker argues Andrew Carnegie’s wealth grows too fast and tariffs should fall while property assessed by one board for all. Gov Hoch’s political statement is timely, straight forward and aligns with a square deal platform.
The piece lists Republican candidates for governor and other offices in Jackson County Missouri, including Mecretsary of State and Railroad Commissioners, with editorial critique of campaign tactics. It comments on party platforms, distrust among voters, and criticisms of teachers and history knowledge amid reform calls and petitions.
Johnson county adopts open primary to select county ticket, replacing old county conventions. Olathe Mirror lauds return to direct voting and Australian ballot style, urging a same day primary for all parties to reduce costs and prevent cross party manipulation.
A discussion on how salaries are set by market forces and executive influence. It argues that pay should reflect actual value, not perceived power, using Prudential President Dryden as a case study. The piece questions if a top executive’s worth is tied to the company’s savings and suggests that compensation cannot be calculated solely by supposed impact.
A critical view of corporate savings and executive pay argues that large salaries often serve as cover for fraud and plunder. It cites McCall and McCurdy as example of ordinary men with extraordinary compensation, suggesting salaries should be capped to prevent misuse and distorting incentives.
A collage of for sale notices including a meat wagon and a milk wagon at 28 Imale Street. Farm mortgages and Linn County Kansas land listings with acreages, improvements, and high asking prices. Stock ranches with acreage, timber, and cultivated land priced per acre with terms. Multiple houses for sale in Missouri and Ohio with varied prices and parcels.
A technical note describes cloth woven from wood fibers. Pulp is ground into soft pulp, pressed into sheets, then drawn into long ropes. The fibers are spun into threads for warp and weft to form a strong wooden cloth similar to leather.
For Rent a good six room house convenient to the University inquiry at Luther's green house 1117 Mass Street. Also seven room house with electric light gas cistern well and city water at barb corner of Indiana and Elliott R B Bonar.
Fragmented text recounts a chaotic journey with a border danger, personal betrayals, and scattered memories. It names no clear events or dates, but hints at intrusion, pursuit, and moral conflict amid a disturbed narrator. The piece blends travel note and reflective reminiscence with garbled dialogue.
An old Texas Wonder advertisement touts cures for kidney bladder and rheumatic troubles, claiming two months of treatment for 1. It includes testimonials and references Dr E Wall of St Louis Missouri and a long stream of garbled text resembling mixed ad copy and public notices. The item reflects sensational patent medicine language and mispelled lines from the era.
University Gas and Mantle Co offers gas fitting with savings on proper appliances and fixtures. JG Gillham, horse shoeer with 30 years experience, continues business at 716 Vermont Street guaranteeing his work and offering reliable shoeing for all kinds of feet.
J. N. Hargh berger advertises as a live stock auctioneer with twenty years experience. He asks readers to see manow for open dates and notes an office at Trovillo and Krelder's lumber yard with phone number 34.
Live stock listing describes Silver Heir a fast trotter with strong bloodlines, service fee 68, and limited mares near New York Street. Also offered are a four horse double geared power and one double geared feeder, two wagons, good work horses, and Bernese dogs. Inquiries to 1100 N St. D. Pickens. Also includes various humorous travel and health quips pasted in the column.
Mm C A Jennings of 810 Obie Street Lawrence Kansas describes years of kidney pain and backache relieved by Doan's Kidney Pills after other doctors failed. She reports pain subsiding and kidney secretions normalizing following use at Dick Bros drug store. Foaster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan's. Price 50 cents.
A fragmentary column mimics Henry Cope’s epigrammatic style in the Chicago Tribune. The verse critiques piety and religious doubt, arguing heredity and wealth shape morality, while lamenting insincere preaching and the burden of heart versus heaven.
In Harper's Magazine history excerpt, early sailors ponder the discovery of the compass by Asian peoples and its impact on maritime exploration. The text notes magnetism, the magnetic needle, and the development of charting coastlines, with Italian cartographers contributing to surveying the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and Atlantic coasts.
A collage of humorous riddles about land and sea, ships and holes, with the punchlines tied to barroom wit. It includes a Missouri Valley letter from Mrs Frances L. Salea describing kidney trouble and a testimonial praising Foley's Kidney Care.
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