Lawrence Dairy Pioneers Build Major Local Plant
Lawrence Sanitary Milk Company, led by Simon Hurwitz and his brother Sam, grew from a 1920 start to a large Lawrence industry. The plant produces Grade A milk, Varsity Velvet Ice Cream, Table Talk Butter, Dutch Maid Cottage Cheese, and more, employing 17 with payroll over 20,000 annually and farmers paid over 100,000 in 1987. The freezer can make 510 quarts per hour, eight hours totaling 4 986 quarts.
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United States
Lawrence
Lawrence Sanitary Milk and Ice Cream Company
Simon Hunwitz
Fort Leavenworth
Simon
Sam
Topeka
Sia _mon
Waco
Texas
Imon
West Sixth Street
Lawrence Sanitary Milk Company
Simon Hurwitz
Sam Hurwitz
Bireley
Hurwitz
Douglas County
Lawrence Sanitary Company
Shaw Lumber Company: A Half Century of Honest Service
The lumber yard founded by Alex Shaw over 50 years ago still upholds honest service for builders. Management continues to handle all kinds of jobs from small to large, emphasizing dependable work and customer trust.
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Alex Shaw
Dr Pepper as a food in liquid form and energy value
The text asserts Dr Pepper is a liquid food providing calories as energy. It explains calories yield energy to relieve fatigue between meals and cites the slogan Drink a bite to eat at 10 2 and 4 o'clock.
Kansas Electric Power Company Office Network in Kansas
Kansas Electric Power Company operates in eastern Kansas serving 80 towns. Lawrence serves as General Office with J T Skinner as manager on the first floor. other division offices include Leavenworth Emporia Parsons Bonner Springs Council Grove Eureka Madison and Cottonwood Falls with offices in KE P building.
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Kansas Electric Power Company
Kansas Corporation
Kansas
Lawrence
Leavenworth
Emporia
Parsons
Bonner Springs
Council Grove
Eureka
Madison
Cottonwood Falls
K.E.P
J T. Skinner
American Service Company in Early Industry Era
Readable fragments describe the American Service Company in the pre industrial machine era. The note recalls workers, workshops and local trades shaping early manufacturing and economic activity during that period.
Real estate loans enable hundreds to buy homes or farms
Our program provides real estate loans at reasonable rates with no commission charge enabling many borrowers to purchase homes or farms. Borrowers are invited to apply through our lending service.
Automatic Butler coal stoker
Cliff Ramsey advertises an automatic coal stoker service with contact via phone 60.
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Cliff Ramsey
Royal Insurance Company Pays Large Fire Losses and Taxes
Royal Insurance Company has paid over 1.0 billion dollars in fire losses in the United States during sixty years. In the last ten years it paid the U S government taxes and fees totaling about 27.92 million dollars. In the same period the U S government reimbursed postage amounting to about 2.71 million dollars.
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Royal Insurance Company
United States
Royal
Repair parts for As pinwall potato planters move to six states
Since 1924 our store has transferred all repair parts for As pinwall potato planters to six states. We maintain a complete stock and ship orders within one hour of receipt. A 14 year record shows no service complaints.
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Aspinwall
Lawrence Station Serves Travelers Remembered By Motorists
Local station notes Kansas and nearby state drivers recall prior encounters with its service and make a point of stopping during passes through Lawrence. The team expresses appreciation and ongoing efforts to improve.
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Kansas
Lawrence
Lincoln and Lane tied to West Hills home site history
The record notes Abraham Lincoln as gran tor and Jim Lane as grantee of a West Hills home site owned by the Lane family for years Esther Clark Hill author of The Call of Kansas purchased the site believing a home must have an inspiring view to retain charm
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Abraham Lincoln
Jim Lane
West Hills
Esther Clark Hill
Kansas
Building and Loan plan aids countless Lawrence homes
For a century the Building and Loan plan has financed millions of homes. Many Lawrence residents could not own or pay for a home without this association’s help.
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Lawrence
Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Furniture Sale Noted for Illinois Delivery This Month
A brief notice states that a bill of furniture was sold this month with delivery planned to Illinois. No names or dates are provided beyond the month.
Tailor Shop Upheld Under Mr Frank Kruse Supervision
A local note emphasizes maintaining a dedicated tailor shop under veteran Lawrence tailor Mr Frank Kruse. It argues that even quality garments require alterations and warns against unskilled labor, insisting Ober clothing receive proper tailoring locally.
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Frank Kruse
Lawrence
Oldsmobile Delivers Record May Sales Says Town Talk
The company announced it delivered more new cars during May 1938 than in any May since its nine years in business, claiming this proves Oldsmobile is "the talk of the town."
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Ing
Oldest Kansas bindery lines Lawrence 1865 city directory
The World Company runs the state's oldest continuously operating book bindery, established in 1863 near the Eldridge Hotel, now in the Kansas Electric Power Building. A Lawrence city directory from 1865, printed and bound in this shop, remains in possession.
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the World Company
Kansas
Eldridge Hotel
Kansas Electric Power Building
Lawrence
Store offers silverware records and gift services with decades of experience
The shop promises to keep a complete record of silverware sold and offers a service to help match a bride’s pattern when selecting wedding presents. This is one of the many extra services that have marked the store through the years.
Lawrence store recalls historic Indian customers
The text notes that in 1857 over a thousand Delaware Indians lived on the Delaware Reservation north of the Kaw and about the same number of Shawnee on the south side. It adds that today Haskell Institute brings many fine Indian customers to town.
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Lawrence
Delaware
Kaw
Haskell Institute
Jayhawk boxes ship vast daily food goods nationwide
Each year over 250 million cans of daily foods travel in Jayhawk boxes. Fruits and vegetables from the Rio Grande Valley Minnesota Ozarks Iowa and the Rocky Mountains reach grocer shelves in Lawrence made Jayhawk boxes.
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Rio Grande Valley
Minnesota
Ozarks
Iowa
Rocky Mountains
Hanna Takes Sleighride and Moves to Lawrence
A 1913 Lawrence tale of Hovey Hanna who built Hanna Bicycle Shop from a 944 Massachusetts storefront to 904 Massachusetts. He became a local radio pioneer selling sets for $20 and grew into an appliance leader with Frigidaire Philco Hoover. He blends work ethic with civic effort and hobbies in geography and property repair.
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Journal-World
Lawrence
Hovey Hanna
Hanna
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Ira Stockwell
Stockwell
Jimmy Houk
Hovey
University
Cause of
Science
Hanna’s
Frigidaire
Philco
Hoover
A.B.C
Local Industry Promises New Ice Making Capacity in Lawrence
An advertisement claims a new self manufactured weather system using modern refrigeration would generate enough ice daily to supply every Lawrence family with 40 pounds. It also notes Mickey Rooney arriving at the Granada Sunday in Lord Jeff and mentions his hobby of drumming with many bands, noting he has played drums in 32 hands.
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Lawrence
Mickey Rooney
Granada
Jeff
Flour Barrel Weights and Packing Variations
A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds net when packed in a barrel. Four 48 pound sacks, eight 24 pound sacks, sixteen 12 pound sacks, or five pound sacks do not change the barrel’s standard net weight. Packing variations occur in few places in the U.S. and in Latin countries.
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U.S.A
Maine
Arkansas
New Orleans
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Hurwitz Brothers
Journal-World Star
Oto
Lawrence Sam "Hurwitz
Lawrence Simon
W. Shaw Lumber Company
DR. Pepper Bottling CO
Kansas Electric Power CO
Lawrence Grocery
Tisement
Zephyr Bakery
Kansas City
Law
Rence
Mod
American Service Company
Peoples State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Kansas Heat Service
Kansas Public Service CO
Charlton Insurance Agency
Green Bros
Fritz CO
Illinois
Dreds
Veatch Furniture Company
OBER
Oldsmobile
M. F. Hudson Company
SOL Marks & Son
Lawrence Paper Co
the Independent Laundry
Hanna- Stockwell
Hanna Bicycle Shop
Photo By
Lawrense H. J. Hanna
Granada and
Patee Theatres
Eldridge
Bowersock Mills and Power CO
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