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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1918
Page
8
Financial notes show capital stock and surplus totals with a balance of 1 002 344.00 and undistributed profits alongside capital accounts after audit. The fragment indicates a corporate financial snapshot with specialized terms.
The Kansas Jayhawks open 1918 with only two veterans Ward Weltmer and E H Schoenfeldt back. Coach Bond and Hugo Wedell take over as the staff forms amid many players in military service. The team must rebuild a new battery from eighteen candidates while Missouri and Ames also contend with war losses. Kansas schedules six conference games including Ames in Lawrence April 22 and Missouri in Columbia May 8 9 10.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide a calomel free remedy for chronic constipation and torpid liver. The sugar coated olive tablets soothe the bowels and liver to act normally without forcing unnatural action. If you have bad breath dark tongue or dull headaches try one or two tablets at bedtime for quick pleasant results.
Robinson Gym was the site as Kansas University selected its nearly complete track squad. Rex Brown led two mile trials over Hanna while Murphy won the half mile in 2 13 5, Hunt placed second in the mile, Radkey edged Clift for the quarter, and Haddock or Liggett/ Davison were eyed for the shot put with Rice and Howard best in high jump. Howard and Welty slated for pole vault, Lobaugh and Haddock expected to win the 50 yard dash, and final sixteen selections to be announced near the meet with more than twenty five men entered.
Only two teams have filed entries for the annual state high school basketball tournament to be held March 22 and 23 at KU in Kansas City. Eudora and Winfield have registered, with many more entries expected as the filing period opens next week under the University of Kansas Athletic Association.
Four games began the University of Kansas intra-mural women's basketball tournament. Faculty sextette beat Alemenia Club 7 to 1. Kappa Alpha Theta trounced Alpha Delta Pi Pi Beta Phi 4 to 7. Kappa Kappa Gamma and YWCA won 30 to 10. Alpha Xi Delta defeated Alpha Chi Omega 42 to 13.
At the Dread Cafe the Varsity basketball team will elect its captain for next season. Scrubby Laslett, Kelsey Matthews, and Olin Fearing vie for the role as juniors each with notable seasons and Laslett a leading candidate due to prior varsity experience.
The High School boys night at the Y M C A featured Boltz versus Higgens in a five round boxing bout. Officials could not reach a decision as one pugilist appeared as skilled as the other. Dutch Wedder was absent for his lecture. The piece questions how many men know everything yet accomplish little.
The Commercial Basketball League lists Haskell versus MHI at 7:15 p.m. and BC 2nd versus All-Stars at 8:00 p.m. LBC 1st meets Lecompton at 8:45 p.m. Volleyball Thursday features Bantist against Christian 7:15 p.m. Evangelical versus Lutheran 8:00 p.m. Methodist B against Union 8:45 p.m. Friday matches Presbyterian against Cordley and Methodist A against Congregational at 8:30 p.m.
Market notes from City Me dated March 1 show cattle prices with entries for heifers and lean grades along with rough silk data. Corn and timothy prices appear quoted in scattered form as prices drift and trading activity slows across the grains sector.
A Winey’s Quit Business Sale features eager clerks ready to help customers and sell goods. The piece contrasts two clerk archetypes with a nod to the effusive seller and the indifferent attendant. It closes with Gertrude Capen Whitney and a quip about a fisherman’s enthusiasm fading after success.
A proverb warns that drinking in daylight spells greater trouble than night intoxication, suggesting daytime inebriety carries harsher social or personal consequences.
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