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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
2
A garbled notice references a Massachusetts Street Office and a rolling stone metaphor about momentum. It mentions years and charges in unclear terms but conveys a sense of a municipal or business item. The fragmentary text suggests an office action or public notice connected to a local street or business environment.
The Topeka Capital argues that newspapers must accept regular advertising rates and print government requests and supplier ads as their revenue source. It emphasizes paid advertising as essential to a paper’s dignity and self-respect, urging printers to demand payment to sustain the industry.
Casual glance at market reports suggests demand and supply both rise while prices also increase. The notes indicate steady growth in demand along with supply and price levels.
The two leaders argue against rushing prohibition legislation to ban beer now. They warn that hurried moves could destabilize the nation’s wine and brandy supply. Questions arise about Kansas and other states where prohibition already applies.
Readable text notes warnings about listening devices and coded messages in cars, hotels, and railways. It laments Americans oversharing and recalls German spies active abroad, warning that paid ears may still monitor conversations.
A note at the bottom of a Journal-World message complains about not receiving the notice. The editor’s note mentions errors in spelling and punctuation and asks readers to notify promptly if messages are missing.
A fragmentary column riffs on Lord Tennyson, sun and moon eclipses, and pearls before swine. It notes Americans may weaponize steel bullets to square accounts with Germany over a yacht prize, mocks veneer gold in a trophy worth about forty dollars, and mentions Uncle Sam recruiting antiiron, thermit welders, and gas workers. It closes with Maud Muller and a German debating society planning peace talks after U S military actions.
A letter from the Nationals War Work Council of the Y M C A discussed within the Springfield conference notes that saloons attract fewer young men ages seventeen to twenty four and that single men are less represented at bars than married men. The report, Ungrasped and Undeveloped Opportunities Among Young Men from 18 to 21 Years of Age, was presented at the Association of Employed Officers session.
Kansas publishers chiefly weeklys refuse to take money for government patriotic ads as war bonds drive nears, arguing payment could limit free space. Merchants largely cheer the idea, yet some papers hesitate to accept funded pages, fearing reduced gratuitous space for Uncle Sam’s campaign. The Capital and other dailies accept such paid patriotic advertising.
The fragment notes a poet and fabulist born in 1621 in a house that remains standing and is now a library and museum. It includes a brief poem with a dialogue about wedlock and a father’s death as context. Also mentions local shop greetings and two trips to Topeka and Lecompton.
Charles and Ralph Woolfson depart this morning for Camp Wood. They are traveling from an unspecified location for a planned absence related to outdoor activity.
Colonel C. R. Darnall of the Army Medical Corps has spent within the past year about $130,000,000 on medical and hospital supplies. He is the official spender of the Medical Corps, ensuring no shortage of medicine or hospital supplies when soldiers are sick or wounded.
National Geographic Society bulletin details Chateau Thierry a fortified town on the Marne's north bank. Once a siege site for Napoleon victories, it survived sieges from 1421 to 1652 and Fronde turmoil. Founded in the eighth century by Charles Martel, the town is famed for Champagne, wine markets, cattle trade, and musical instruments. It sits 59 miles east northeast of Paris on the Paris Nancy line.
Marshall Fladdock of Kansas City spent yesterday at the Sig Alph house. Rainwater in a dirty cistern makes a poor drink. Phone 193. W. R. Stubbs went to Kansas City Miss Edna Wilson went to Baldwin this morning for a short visit. Electric fans, Kennedy Plumbing. Do not wait to be urged to join the W S S Army. What if our men in the trenches waited to be urged?
A vintage advertisement extols Swift Specific Co. blood medicine S S S as a pure blood remedy. It claims druggists regularly recommend it, notes long history of sales over fifty years, and urges readers to trust the product for a purer blood and medical service via the sponsor.
A public appeal warns that the zone based postal policy will kill periodicals across the nation. It argues readers will shrink, ideas and culture decline, and farming, religious, and mothering publications face crippling losses. Western readers pay higher rates, Canadian access rises, and nationwide inequality harms education and patriotism.
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