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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1910
Page
3
An account mixes travel writing with a paid health ad. A Portuguese farmer offers shelter to a traveler near Vianna, showcasing hospitality. The piece then shifts to a testimonial for Doan's Kidney Pills, praising kidney relief and urging purchases through Foster Milburn Co. with territorial agents listed.
Mrs U S Grant meets a sobbing native woman in New England hills who reveals a beloved colt died last week after twenty two years with the family. The tale underscores a deep attachment to a long lived animal described as part of the family.
A description of a Bengal superstition called trial by rice where suspects chew raw rice before a plantain leaf plate as a form of coercion. The passage also notes a Sixteenth Century Corean chronicle Ching Pl Nok by Yu Song-yong, its scarce copies, and recent discovery of ancient printing blocks in Corea by a Japanese official, with plans to return them.
The piece notes hats as civil symbols beyond weather protection and cites elaborate parliamentary etiquette. It mentions two peers allowed to remain covered before royalty and the king’s habit of donning a field marshal’s hat before reading the speech. The temperance lecturer is also linked to a field of prohibition.
A fragmentary 19th century advertisement montage touts Eclectic Bitters as a stomach and body tonic to restore vigor and appetite, followed by Allen’s Foot-Ease antiseptic powder promises relief for sore feet and an easy shoe fit. It claims broad benefits, urges purchases at C. P. Barbera & Son and mail orders from Allen Olmstead in New York.
In the 11th legislative district J E Don Carlos and J D Bowersock are named as Republican primary candidates for member of the legislature. County offices include Superintendent of Douglas County Schools ER Monahan and others. C R Hawley and F M Buchheim seek County Treasurer. C E Fearey Willow Springs seeks Treasurer. D F Smith and Henry H Asher seek Clerk of the District Court. C E Moss announces candidacy for Clerk of the District Court.
The text announces candidates for Douglas County sheriff across party primaries. Elmer E Meyers seeks a second term under Republican primaries. W. P. Bann ing runs in Democratic primaries. H. Carmean also declares candidacy under Republican primaries.
For County Attorney R. B. Melvin will be a candidate for county attorney subject to the Republican primaries of August 2.
A batch of 1910 county offices seek Republican primaries on August 2 including candidates for county attorney probate judge county assessor and county commissioner with notices from Gorrill Riling Clarke Means Engle Moore Walton and Coffman plus a legal notice to extend city limits of Lawrence detailing multiple tracts of land and streets within Douglas County Kansas scheduled for July 30 hearings.
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