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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1905
Page
4
The Douglas county teachers normal Institute opened at Lawrence high school with a large first day enrolment. Attendees expect a pleasant profitable session and plan entertainment to break study monotony. Furniture and carpet cleaning services advertise nearby. Local shops promote specials on coats hats and garments.
Geonme Ware authorized to collect subscriptions in the district delivered by him. The Journal Co. offers durable news and new models at Woodward & Co. Kodak remark highlights failing weather. For sale: residence at 1120 Tennessee Street. John Griggs. Repairer promises quick, careful work. Gustafson claims expertise in watch repair. Goodrich championship tennis bait advertised. Cherries for sale near University Pinshel fruit farm. Weather note: this weather calls for electric fans.
A bare quorum was present as the library board met yesterday afternoon. The administration committee reported a janitor change and Jack Porter was elected to fill the vacancy. May fines totaled 212.84 and 83.58 came from duplicate pay collection. Fifty three applications for library use were granted, bringing the total privileged readers to 1,904. Visitors in May were 4,452 with 4,537 books drawn and used. Thirty three books were donated. Sunday attendance since opening totals 1,868. The library’s run was closed on Sundays until September. Special rates for shorthand and bookkeeping in summer school at Business College.
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The body was recovered at the location 742 Massachusetts Street, tied to Robinson and Winey. Authorities confirmed the discovery and initiated an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death. No further details were provided in the source text.
Local report notes the brick pavement at the corner of Massachusetts and Lee streets buckled several inches in the heat. A missionary meeting with Rev. W. A. Petzoldt and Indian visitors from Montana will be held at the Baptist church this evening. The school opens Thursday with courses in piano organ and harmony by Prof. Stilton and voice by Prof. Hubach. Wills Gentry was found guilty of supplying whisky to Indians and sentenced. Mrs Mc to rent rooms in her building on 2 Miss Massachusetts street. Baptist ladies hold a tea at Mrs. Stobert Boyd's home Thursday. The body of Floyd Miller, a boy who drowned at the Kaw dyer dam, was recovered by a local fisherman and turned over to authorities. An inquest was deemed unnecessary. Hammond's site offers plants for sale by F. Hartelden.
A thief broke into the Phi Gamma house yesterday afternoon while residents were away and stole a razor, a souvenir spoon, and several other items from Mr C K Briggs of Spokane. Envelopes with money were left. Suspected known offender.
Classified items list a two story frame house on South Massachusetts Street for 4000 cash with im mediate sale desired. Other notices include a 1905 university class commencement, wallpaper deals, a 25th anniversary gathering for Prof Carruth’s class of 1880, a infant death on Alabama Street, trustees meeting for equalization board, funeral of Floyd Miller, a Woodmen ball and initiation, Kaw river stage reports, and illness of Wilson McElheny at 833 Connecticut Street.
Personal notices recount Independence residents visiting old college friends and attending events. Arthur Biilogs, Herbert Bullene host gatherings for employees and guests, Miss Maude Landis entertained friends, and many others travel to Topeka, Kansas City, Excelsior Springs, and Galena for reunions, graduations, and social functions.
Obers be has ist in Lawrence since June Jet Va rescued a count of nis health Med f Tiner of Baldwin and Mr. Janes ther of Media spent the day her Mrs. Verevive bi aw who hie been ue tin coe past winter at thy home of her uncle Me O P Barber Jett last night for her home in Min ok. 17. Mr Starber accompanied her to Topeka returning this morn ing. Mr. UJ Erickson is attending the cloying exercises of Midland college in Atobison. Me C A Streeteft this evening for San Francisco Calif. Mr Vernon Curt left today for Yangton South Dakota. Mr John i Lord of Topeka was the guest todiag of Mr Wallace Mc Garth, Mrs J W Briar of Russell Kansas who has been spending several weeks in Excelsior Springs has res turned and is visiting Me and Mrs BLL Treworgy Wr Melvin Taplor ja expected this week on visit for a shore time with Lawrence friends.
Chicago reports a new Teamsters Joint Council committee with full powers to settle the strike. Employers’ association agrees to confer and the committee may appoint deputies to pursue individual settlements, with authority to arrange a broader settlement if talks succeed.
Chicago reports a Kansas City boy Edward Lee age five or six asks the pulpit for aid in a tale of a father and son. The boy says they arrived in Chicago from Kansas City the previous evening. He went to a theater while his father sought a large payment owed by a South Water street merchant. The father did not return, and the boy has not seen him since.
A Swede named John Johnson was arrested in Bloomington for writing to Alice Roosevelt. He claimed a wax from Sweden intended marriage to Miss Roosevelt, and he admitted sending his message to the president's daughter before being sent to an asylum. In Cleveland a man killed his wife after a family quarrel and then wounded himself, a longstanding family history noted. In Chicago a five year old girl died after beads prize beads contained arsenic, an analysis showed.
Paris, June. Premier Rougier assumed active control of foreign affairs conferring with cabinet chiefs on pending questions. Cambon, long a candidate for Del Casse’s successor, visited the foreign office. Loubet and parliament favor Rougier concentrating on foreign affairs, not finances.
In district court Judge Swarts refuses to allow James Wallace of Dexter to plead guilty to a charge of operating music and dee the provultion law and to pay costs. He must be convicted or acquitted with the case set over to the next term. The judge also declined to accept a plea of guilty to selling liquor. WANT HITCHCOCK'S SCALP.
Resolutions passed by Indian Territory Muskogee officials denounce the secretary’s administration amid unrest. A major flood and river disruptions force closures with 25,000 displaced workers. Ambassadors Reid and Landsdowne meet. railway stations gain new agents at Warner and Downs.
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