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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1990
Page
3
Editorial urges an eastern throughway for Lawrence to relieve congestion with bike paths trees and non-disruptive routing. It questions lane count and urges public hearings to craft an acceptable alignment while warning signs to deter shortcut use from K-10 to the Turnpike and U.S. 24 40. The piece cautions promises versus final results.
A letter to the editor argues that drug legalization is fueled by prejudice and capitalist greed. The writer laments family instability, single parenting, and the turn to television as a pacifier, urging support for social reforms over punitive measures.
The Journal World invites readers to submit letters up to 350 words of public interest. Submissions may be edited for clarity and length without changing viewpoints. Letters should include the writer’s name address and telephone number. Shorter letters tend to attract more readers.
On June 7 1776 Richard Henry Lee urged a Declaration of Independence in the Continental Congress. Louis XIV was crowned in Rheims in 1654. Daniel Boone began exploration of Kentucky in 1769 per the state historical society. Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848. Lincoln was renominated in Baltimore in 1864. Vatican City emerged in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty copies exchanged in Rome.
A Labour MP predicts two nasty campaign themes will mark the next British election criticising Thatcher as a nanny while Labour shifts to market rhetoric. The piece argues Thatcher achieved wealth and productivity but faces voter discontent and a bored electorate yet remains vulnerable to political miscalculations.
A narrator at a lavish wedding reception drinks ginger ale and gnaws carrots while musing on health fads and prohibition. He debates whether caffeine cigarettes and alcohol shaped history, yearns for bars, and ends by choosing a paradoxical happiness eating carrots.
The Lawrence Journal-Tribune recounts a 1890 incident when an eight person crash near Tee Pee Junction injured four, two seriously, as a bus and car collided. The piece reflects on how a young man away from home gradually distances himself from family and friends over years.
A satirical scene presents Mayor Dubarry, a nervous leader in Gotham City, facing absurd emergencies and drug references. The mayor contemplates perjury and deception while bemused aides advise caution as a derailed commuter and a library standoff unfold in a dark, comic city portrait.
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