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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
4
County agent T Rees outlines two proven methods to treat smutted seed and prevent losses this season. The Sprinkling method uses a formaldehyde solution to treat seed before planting, while the Immersion method soaks seed directly in formaldehyde. A germination test after treatment helps gauge injury and adjust planting rates.
Advertisement touts Freezone as magical with low cost. It claims corn pain ends instantly when touched and the corn lifts out with fingers. The tone emphasizes ease and no pain, calling it magic.
Local residents and visitors share a week of social calls with Nortonville, Lawrence, Reno, and Kansas City links. Notable items include Father Budreau visiting and former parish ties, Friends Missionary Society sewing for French and Belgian children, War garden supplies aiding relief, and Cadet Harry Jenkins arriving from Austin for furlough after aviation studies.
An advertisement touts Snake Oil Pain In Thrree as a universal remedy for neuralgia, lumbago, sore joints, headaches, and more. It promises internal and external use with drops on the sole, claims fast penetration within minutes, and offers 30c 60c or 1 dollar bottles from Round Corner Drug Co Lawrence Kansas.
Mrs. Ezra Brithaupt spent Sunday at her uncle Gideon Briethaupt. Miss Gertrude Brecheisen visited sister Mrs. David Klamm of Benner Springs. Miss Dora Guenther traveled to Lawrence. Ellen Melville visited Inez Westerhouse of Hesper My. Clyde Decey and mother visited Amos Westerhouse. Myrtle and Grace Russell of Boner Springs visited Mrs. Willie Brecheisen. Mrs. Albert Adler and baby called at Fuchs. Elfrieda Selzer stayed with John and Anna Selzer. Vera Breithaupt visited friends at Wellsville. Church all day nest.
An ad urges seniors to stay healthy and active at eighty, claiming vitality depends on bodily organs working well. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a 200 year old remedy for backache kidney and bladder issues and uric acid related ailments. The ad promises efficacy or money back and warns against imitations.
John E Fischer aged 23 was picked up Sunday night by Officer Elijah Patchen and could not show a registration card during search at police quarters, then turned over to county officials.
A reader requests delivery of Puritan, noting phone contact 1:18 and reference to McNish. The brief item records a home delivery order and a contact cue for fulfillment.
A white man August Griesa was fined 5.50 plus costs after a dispute with black man Winton Smith in a local garage incident. The quarrel began when Smith asked for water and called Griesa pro German, with racial slur and a heated exchange escalating into a fight.
Officer Elijah Patchen located four runaways Sunday at the Union Pacific station. Chief Jim Monroe notified their parents and the youths were held at police headquarters for instructions. Names and ages include Carl Moulton fifteen from Colorado Springs, Dwyer thirteen from Kan., Richard Williamson, Sam Bagsch thirteen from Kansas.
Henry Durst of the Durst Sales System wraps a successful nineteen day run for The Fair Store in Lawrence. He now heads to Douthat Oklahoma for another large sale after previously running sales in Ottawa. Durst, once a Ottawa merchant, built a busy career and rarely finds time at home as his family often visits him in various towns. Donnelly travels to Kansas City this morning.
Former Kansas Telephone publicity manager John Limmer, now a stenographer at Camp Pike, reports to friends that his unit's officers are white while the privates are Black. He serves with the national army and writes from camp.
A Chicago student officer hopeful, C B Johnson, rushed home after a stranger delivered a threat message claiming his mother was dead. The ruse aimed to keep him from entering Fort Sheridan for the Student Officers Training camp. Johnson, son of Mr and Mrs J B Johnson, studied medicine at Northwestern University. He already faced possible delays as other students enrolled. He suspects a plot to keep a medical man from service.
County Commissioner W R Green report says bids will be sought to pay the north Kaw River bridge approach after hindered lighting work by Kennedy Plumbing and a low cost earthfill lowering project. The latter will be done at no cost to city or county by the same contractors after the 190% flood. Also notes Lt Rusty Russell, Barron Field, Ft Worth, Texas, visiting his parents in town.
J G Uhrnault formerly of this region reached the semi finals in a Great Plains tennis event in Kansas City Saturday but fell ill with ptomaine poisoning and retired, giving Frank C Howard the win. Howard faces Charles T Speice of Kingfisher Oklahoma in the afternoon final. Kenneth Uhll and Firit Bashy won the state doubles title. Uhls captained a university tennis team this season.
Fragmentary note describes a person identified as J H Cohn linked to relatives and a figure named Marcel Hir. It mentions military expertise and strategy amid unclear phrases and quotation fragments.
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