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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1919
Page
5
A brief column lists several local residents visiting and departing. Mrs Truitt and her sister spent a few days together while Mrs Wyatt and Mrs Wardl accompanied relatives. EfreH Bundy and T Bundy left for Drexel Missouri. Mrs Boswell and her daughter traveled to Kan.
Kansans travel for business and social visits with many heading to Kansas City and Topeka. Individuals include Mrs E J Holland Mrs Will Greisa Miss Geneva Hunter Leland Benson Luther Lewis Fritz Meyn and James Henderson among others. A Kansas City alumni gift honors Uncle Jimmy Green at a university law school smoker with eighty five graduates in attendance.
A fragmented ad lists curtain fabrics and supplies with prices. Items include net and ecru curtain fabrics at various yards, Marquisette Vail, Terry Cretonne draperies, Fillet Curtain Net, Mercerized Madras, Printed Marquisette, and bathroom rugs. Many prices show 100 for multiple yards and regular per yard rates.
Advertises Onyx Silk Hose in black taupe and gray with prices. Offers ladies Lisle hose in black or white at 100 for 3 pairs, silk finish stock with 29 cents value. Lists children's ribbed hose up to size four pairs at 29 cents value.
In the suit room, items include gray middys at 1.00, covers priced at 1.00, Warner 39c and 1.00 brassieres, 10 for 1.25 and 1.50 corsets, warmer wy howe and American Lady. Includes children's wash dresses size 2 to 6 at 10.
Commercial listing offers Pears unscented Glyc erine Soap 7 cakes for 1 dollar. Sea Shore Castile Soap 12 cakes. Violet Glycerine 12 cakes and assorted 25 cent Sanatol preparations in packages.
Haas and Underwood announce a dance at Dicker Hall on Friday evening March Tth. The item lists social events, pledges, club anniversaries and a May wedding in a busy community page.
Mrs. FE F Caldwell hosted the Thursday Team Whist session this afternoon at her home on Ohie street.
The three cent Victory postage stamp is due to reach the Lawrence post office within two weeks as shipments move from the Washington department. It features Liberty Victorius with flags of England Belgium Italy France and the United States in the background. Postmasters will supply stamps only on request as the new issue is not a replacement for ordinary three cent stamps.
Readable OCR lists bear brand knitting yarns and accessories with price lines. Includes Zephyr 4-fold skeins, Turkish bath towels, Huck towels, Union Crash, Mercierized thread, and hemmed items priced at one dollar or less.
A catalog of wash goods and fabrics with yardage and prices. Gingham checks and stripes at varying yard quantities. Percale and cotton chall. Anderson and Ivanhoe ginghams. Colored voiles all shades 30 cents. All wool serges 36 inch in multiple shades. Latin stripe and printed voiles priced at 1.25.
Kansas lawmakers approved a 66798.08 dollar appropriation to cover due salaries for University and Agricultural College instructors dating back to 1917. Salaries were to be paid in twelve monthly installments under contracts dated September. A 1917 auditor ruling had redirected July and August pay to the school funds, leaving instructors unpaid for those months. Kansas Day noted in the Jayhawker in France issue by the 137th Infantry of the 35th Division.
A morning blaze at J. M. Wilson’s residence on 45 Pennsylvania Street caused $150 damage. Firemen arrived after a strong start. flames confined to attic and roof. Cause listed as defective flue.
The owner occupant, a clerk with the Sanita Fe railroad, reports a fire causing $400 damage to the structure and $50 to contents. Garden and Field Seeds new seeds are available for distribution. W. J. Rusch.
The nation will revert to the old two cent stamp on July 1 under a new act of Congress. Lawrence post office reports disposal of 2 cent domestic cards and 2 cent stamped envelopes with the change, noting no land for them after June 30. Some demand for present three cent stamps remains for third and fourth class mail after Washington influences. The October 1917 rate change introduced the three cent letter rate. the pre-October 2 1937 rate will return July 1.
Dean Olin Templin said returned soldiers must submit individual plans on university credit.17 veterans attended a meeting to discuss how to value Navy Army and Marine service time and whether officers receive more credit than enlisted men. The college will weigh these plans as it drafts a final policy addressing semesters missed and varying duties in service.
The preliminary hearing of the State versus William P. Barr for wife desertion and failure to support his wife was held this morning in the court of the justice of the peace. The case was bound over to the May term with Barr released on a $300 bond.
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