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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1905
Page
2
A scanned page notes The Journal dates June 5 1905 from Lawrence Kansas with general world updates. Items include Russia tensions and naval battles, Venezuelan politics, American industry and finance, labor strikes, and social commentary. The piece mentions education and speculative oil prospects, along with an advertising scheme involving college athletes and the American Tobacco Company.
Supplemental telephone directory list dated May 15 lists subscribers with addresses on Main, Tenn Red, Delaware White, and other streets. Names include Bowersock JD, Davis Geo L Law, Dews Geo A, Doubleday FE, Hiatt Clifton T, Jamison W, Kennedy M, O Connor Geo, Rothwell G, Russell Ernest B, Smith Fancie, Wheeler Holland, Winchell AT, Woody JN, Wright Dan among many others with corresponding street locations and numbers.
City clerks of Lawrence Kansas invite bids until 5 pm June 5 1905 for furnishing materials and building a culvert at the crossings of Pann and Mississippi streets. Culvert to be stone brick or concrete per city plans and specifications on file. D Brooks Chey Clark
The notice urges summer travelers to choose the Wabash for convenience and time savings. It touts the line as the shortest route with best accommodations to St. Louis Detroit Toledo Pittsburg and Buffalo plus through service to New York and Boston. Travelers are advised to ask local agents for Wabash tickets.
A Braman Leader editorial touts Oklahoma resources with exaggerated claims of vast produce, oil shipments, and a dubious gas atmospheric extraction scheme. It extols Oklahoma as superior to Dakota or Canada for development, urging readers to move there for a promised fortune.
The New York Post argues for including mud and snapping turtles in game laws amid relentless hunting and trade. The piece notes public attitudes toward eating turtles vary from amusement to reverence, citing Aesop, Uncle Remus, Shelley, and Browning to frame the moral of protecting the species.
Berlin dispatch reports Professor Hermano Berdrow asserts Venice is undoubtedly sinking with no saving, citing water pillow foundations 30 to feet thick beneath mud and earth. He warns whole rows of buildings may vanish as sinking continues.
A Washington Star correspondent recalls a mix up over an editor’s telegraph story about ridding government buildings of rats. Meanwhile in Kansas City, Kansas, more than 500 Wyandotte Indian bodies are to be exhumed from Huron cemetery for relocation to tribally chosen sites in Kansas and Indian Territory, with ceremonies planned and leaders to oversee the transfer.
Senator Festus Ag Butt in Arkansas Senate laughs at Representative de Rossitt who recalls mixing quinine with another substance and feeding pills to his hen. The hen reportedly laid two eggs daily and the eggs were claimed to cure malaria and shake ague, prompting the senator to concede the tale.
A century old fashion returns with eye only miniature painting, right eye favored for its perceived individuality and possible portrait likeness. Also notes Indian language classification by the Bureau of Ethnology finding about 500 languages and 50 to 6 families, plus a playful exchange about a couple and a claim of a cure for catarrh with Bali’s Catarrh Cures and other household remedies.
A discussion of the fixed idea or morbid delusion where a person believes they are impoverished despite wealth. It notes cases where a person imagines being in Japan, speaks in meaningless jargon, and is convinced of being a native. Most recover with rest. some delusions may lead to permanent insanity.
A translated discourse envisions Manchuria after the war as sparsely populated with space for mass Chinese settlement to deter Amur aggression. It argues Japan will push colonization under its people and officials, claiming Manchuria could become a leading wheat region, a tiger habitat, and a gold mining center. The excerpt also weaves in unrelated dialogue about Irish ancestry and wartime train events from the Yonkers Statesman.
An English hospital uses an electro magnet to extract metal fragments from injuries, including hammerhead fragments and a cold chisel. The device reportedly works quickly, suggesting military hospital use for removing shell pieces and bullets. The page also mentions tourism and an aviso on advertising payments and delivery timetables.
A fragment from a local office note asks recipients to settle due subscriptions and to collect due sums. The text is incomplete but indicates authorities seeking payment and cartier involvement for collection.
The Mo and Kans Telephone Company seeks several more young ladies for summer work with regular positions in prospect. Applicants should be 18 to 22 years old with first class references. see the manager at 734 Vermont street. For Rent a furnished six room house during summer months. Wm Ti Elder 21 Massachusetts street. For Sale a desirable lot near the new courthouse inquire 1134 Kentucky street.
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