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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1918
Page
3
Tonganoxie residents note Kelses of Keno sprenit with friends. Jennings Dessery of Kansas City spent Saturday and Sunday at home with family and local acquaintances.
An advertisement proclaims Danderine cleanses hair to remove dust oil and dandruff while making hair wavy fluffy and lustrous. It claims roots are invigorated and hair grows long and strong with daily use bought for a few cents at drug stores or toilet counters.
A jumble of brief items reports moves and health updates from area residents. Allan, Grace Allan, and Mrs. Ridge are mentioned in connections to Kansas City and Ray Ridgway. Hints of furloughs, hospital visits, and a measles case appear among families of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, Mr. and Mrs. Huffman, and others in the community.
Mr and Mrs L r Cooledge of Kansas City spend the week here with Mrs Mary Cooledge and Mrs B Gunn Butcher. Andrew T Rollins returns to Kansas City after a few days here on business. Miss Ella and Edith Himpel go back to Kansas City where Ella teaches and Edith studies. Thomas H Handled goes to Kansas City for a few days. Mrs Ernest H Skaggs and daughter Wanda visit Edminster. Orin Butcher of Leavenworth spends the week here with Mr Butcher and his mother Mrs Mary Cooledge. Tou Murphy returns to Kansas City after visiting. Bret Boright and his son return to Kansas City after visiting Mellie Myers. Mrs E A Wood of Kansas City stays with her mother Mary Jones. James Fair trips to Kansas City. Adie Nidd returns to Ed to teach. Mrs T J Kidd and Join A Laming, confined with a cold, are out again. Mr and Mrs Rufus C Nance of Reno motor to town to visit Ed ward EB Heiser. Harry Jenkins of Kansas City visits. Laming family hosts guests today.
An advertisement urges women to use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription to treat chronic weaknesses and disorders. It claims to build up, regulate, and invigorate a run-down woman, with tablets or liquid form available from the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York. It also touts Pleasant Pellets laxative as a remedy for common digestive complaints.
The Franklin Sunday school plans an Easter program for Easter at Ear for Sunday. A Farmers Union will meet at the courthouse in March and all farmers are invited. Various community updates include residents returning home, relocations, windmill setup, illness, weather, and visits among residents.
Petersburg Virginia mother recounts her daughter suffering two years with right side pain and weakness. Doctors planned surgery until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was tried and reportedly restored her health. Mrs Wells urges other women with irregularities or related pains to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
Reports from Kansas neighbors include hospital recovery hopes for Mrs Fasig after a north Lawrence crash formerly of Franklin, visits by Mrs Charlie Wilson and Mrs Plin White with Harold, and Mrs A E Welsh traveling to Nebraska after her brother Lyman’s death. Community members are named, weather changes noted, and Farmers Union events at the courthouse referenced.
Gregory and slr Pua were absent from the Lawrence area home for Margaret Wilson. Miss Fanny and Mr Homer Ruesch attended their uncle Davis’s funeral near Lawrence. Mid term quizzes occurred last week. Everett Craig visited Lawrence on Monday. Ammarillis Hansen was sent home due to illness. A party at the Fordyce home featured about fifty youths with games music and refreshments. Erma Rumser stayed with Eva Stevens for the Fordyce party. Everett Craig Richard Atwood and Jim Woods visited Baldwin to retrieve winter scenery purchased with high school play proceeds. The Alpha Beta Society hosted a chapel program with songs readings duets and solos. Euradelphian society elected a program committee: Margaret Wilson Dorothy Stot and Grace Fordyce. Northern lights observed by many students Thursday evening. Lela and Harry Newton visited Lawrence Saturday. Dow stayed with the Watersons. students enjoyed an old fashioned sing in chapel. Community Club event in the High School auditorium featured lyceum plans including Cathedral Male Quartette University Concert Company and Prof H P Cady. Prof Cady demonstrated liquid air. community may add another lyceum act. White Elephant entertainment amused the crowd. Election resulted in the choice of E. T. Fenton.
Senator Reed of Missouri accuses the Food Administration of extravagant mis management and calls for an accounting of the department s finances He also seeks to strike a 1 750 000 appropriation for the food and fuel administration from the urgent deficiency bill Cambrai bombarded by British long range guns per London report British artillery hits fall on the town with heavy calibre shells.
Army drills show embryo soldiers in a Central Park sector simulating American trenches garrisoned by Company B. A night raiding party tests detection and defense while recruitment and uniform stock face limits. Count Von Luxburg reportedly fled Argentina heading toward Chile.
Soap and shampoos often damage hair by drying the scalp and making hair brittle. The advised alternative is refined coconut oil, used sparingly to cleanse hair and scalp, leaving hair silky and manageable. It claims coconut oil is cheap, pure, greaseless, and suitable for family use.
Last night several Germans passed through on a train bound for Chile. Offices are in the Dick Building. Washington reports government plans to extend railway control to major express and common carriers including Adams American Wells Fargo Southen Great Northern Canadian Western. Ad Manter returns to street with his express wagon after a month off for health. Also notes air raid costs during Paris attack with four German airplanes downed. Laxative Bromo Quinine marketed with tonic and laxative effect, 30c.
The fragment describes a baby who monopolizes family talk with breathless accounts of hunger and personal matters. It contrasts the baby’s direct approach with the subtle deceitfulness of an older pro who redirects conversations to his own affairs.
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