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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
3
Local merchants in Lawrence are urged to improve billing efficiency and reduce errors. The Journal announces exclusive agency for Sieber & Teussel loose leaf ledgers and related aids, offering demonstrations without obligation and quotes on leaf system sheets and prices.
Teachers in Kansas counties attend summer institutes focusing on new pure food and sanitary laws. Health board pamphlets serve as textbooks, guiding educators on sanitation, water, ventilation, and disease prevention in schools. The aim is clear instruction for handling community health and epidemics.
An Indiana editor vows to tell the truth and the first issue exposes a chaotic town scene with local figures named Bouin Coyle Styax and others grappling with social woes The piece blends satire with crude social commentary and a public petition shows civic involvement alongside a disclaimer about deafness treatment and a medicinal advert with Hall's Catarrh Cure claim.
The June Book News Monthly features Kate Skaglas Wirgin on the cover in two colors with a loose frontispiece photograph. It includes literary profiles by Mabie and Carson, portraits of children in Sara Cone Bryant's stories, and numerous illustrations. Featured essays cover Verisimilitudes and Net and Socialism with critical notes by Goss and Goudiss. Frank Whiteside on The Painter's Plaint. and a critical study of Charles Kingsley by Frank L. Sweet. A summer fiction section benefits vacation readers with added educational pieces.
Reason Risley of 909 New York St Lawrence Ky testifies to kidney trouble with back and stomach pain. He bought Doan's Kidney Pills at Dick Bros drug store and reports relief. Advertisement notes price 50 cents and Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sale agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The provisional program for the twenty third International Christian Endeavor convention in Seattle runs July 10 to 15 1907. Over forty clergy of national and international repute will speak. Daily sessions run four two hour blocks with duplicated programs in parallel venues. Excursions are planned to nearby points of interest.
A May library report shows 2 026 adult and 83 young patron checkouts, with fiction dominating among youth and adults. The editor urges readers and friends to shift toward useful works, stressing the library’s mission to inform youth and nurture practical, intelligent citizens.
The article urges ministers to promptly return marriage licenses after ceremonies and to avoid turning licenses into certificates. It notes some fail to return or disfigure licenses by witnesses signing, and advises only the officiating minister sign returns while providing certified copies if requested. It emphasizes ensuring records are filed with the probate judge for permanent official records.
Grovenor argues for collaboration among librarians teachers and parents to cultivate better reading among children. He urges reducing excessive fiction in libraries and promoting histories biographies and quality literature while warning about wasted time on sensational tales.
The county clerk report by Link Walters shows Wakarusa Township wealth with many cattle vs hogs and more wagons than expected. It lists 121 gold watches, 60 pianos, 100 other musical instruments, and cash, notes, and mortgages totaling 121,310 dollars, a large share of all personal property reported.
A southern river steamer loaded with cotton barely moves as the river runs shallow at Gunboat shoals. A deckhand fetches water for on board use. When water is dumped overboard, the boat frees from the bottom and surges forward, seen by a northern traveler who calls it astonishing. The tale from Harper's Weekly notes the dam effect of the grounded boat.
A light collection of fresh humor features a suburb prank hunt-the-clothes game rooted in shared washerwomen, a misidentification tale with Baron Hubner and a butler mistaken for Thiers, a sparrow charity story about a blind bird, and Joseph Parker’s anecdote about a dusty window during a Lancashire sermon.
A dialog shows a quarrel over a woman's honesty and the value of a woman's oath. The landlady notes money not yet received while a slow-voiced man and a quick-tempered woman clash over moral strength and expectations. A quirky aside mentions new store teeth and a boy's view of work, capturing a bustling street scene.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad issues a list of hotels and boarding houses along its line. The catalog provides names of houses and proprietors, locations, capacities, and rates, offering travelers accurate information to arrange lodging in advance.
A. N. Thurnes of Buffalo Ohio reports years of kidney and bladder trouble with gravel and stones. After using Foley's Kidney Cure he says pain abated and he feels like a new man. The ad extols the medicine as a cure for kidney and bladder diseases and also promotes Dr Dean's Regulates for constipation.
A reader recalls a boy threatening to whip a smaller white boy and argues violence is misguided. The piece questions cruelty to birds and calls for patience, urging both restraint and reflection over haste.
The advertisement claims Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup stimulates the stomach liver and bowels without irritation unlike ordinary pills or harsh cathartics. It emphasizes mildness it does not nauseate or gripe and is pleasant to take. Barber & Son.
Notice to wheat growers announcing a local binding twine plant in Kansas. It states buyers can save money by purchasing directly, with no minimum sale under 100 pounds, and bales can be broken after arrival in Lawrence. Orders accepted until June 15 and delivery arranged with notification of time and place.
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