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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1906
Page
2
An aged medical advertisement touts natural remedies for weak digestion and anemia. It asserts modern fatigue stems from poor eating and confinement, promoting herbal tonics including Golden root Queen's root Stone root and other ingredients as stabilizing liver and blood nourishment. It emphasizes a natural cure and warns of nervous exhaustion bankers.
Fragmented OCR shows multiple rail and streetcar notes across cities including Lawrence and Chicago. It lists daily and except Sunday schedules, arrivals and departures, and various stops such as Kaunas and California Express, hinting at a transit timetable amid garbled text.
In Tigara Alaska a village tradition shows a young man courting through family and neighborly commentary. Mothers trade remarks on hunting, cooking, sewing, and status while assessing the match, ending with a trial period and hopeful union if she smiles and welcomes him.
The king, a noted aquatint artist, spends summers on his Portugal estate sketching watercolors of local folk. A bride requested a sketch for her wedding and the king, amused, presented it as a gift. Since then many rural residents seek sketches as tokens, and he grants them with royal generosity.
A fragmentary piece observes a New Orleans organ grinder named Numa Pompilius and the city’s street entertainment scene, noting his habit of cranking the organ for coins and the public’s mixed perception. It also briefly mentions a mammoth incubator project in New York, a caveat about a quote on a wardress and other local notes, ending with a medical ad and a final retirement notice for the estate of E. W. Wood.
A dated collage from March 13 1906 includes medical ad copy for Ely’s Dream Balm and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, then a set of Lawrence Kansas city notices on paving Lee and Ontario streets. It lists election dates and polling places with city clerk announcements and bid solicitations for street improvements and grading.
English hunting circles show growing support for women riding astride, despite strong prejudice. Major packs like Hutchley Quory Blackmore Vale and V W H follow the trend, with riders adopting longer jackets and fearlessly mounting the saddle. Doctors’ protests aside, many riders pursue the practice with bold, steady strides, drawing increasing imitators weekly.
A historical note traces heel origins from Persia where wooden blocks raised feet two inches, to Persian sandals and later Venice where heels reached half a yard, allegedly to jealous husbands keep wives at home with ornate platforms called chapinare ank, reflecting social motives and evolving height.
Article discusses European spa profits and notes California springs as emerging therapy hubs. It cites Dr. Baruch’s view that Western U S springs could mirror European success, offering treatments for nerves disorders and other ailments via hydrotherapy and associated regimens.
A Finlater correspondent notes Swedes form a substantial minority in Finland with Swedish as a mother tongue. Many are farmers or workers on the Lind. Finnish names were replaced by Swedish ones amid a national craze. Of 240 newspapers in Finland, 81 are printed in Swedish.
A detailed description of a pie production line shows a machine driven process assembling dough, filling, and top crusts. The apparatus moves plates, applies dough, fillings, and lids, then seals and trims before conveyance to the oven, with automated flour dusting to prevent sticking. The process emphasizes speed, automated feeding, and synchronized movements.
The article argues machinery can be beautiful when well cared for, showing strength, precision and harmony with universal laws. It praises saws and cutters shaping moldings for homes, making stairs and doors graceful, and claims machines spread artful forms to many houses rather than limited handmade pieces.
An 1903 era ad warns women about kidney trouble causing nervousness headaches and dark circles and promotes Foley's Kidney Cure and Foley Honey and Tar for coughs and pneumonia prevention. Barber & Son's drug store touts these remedies, while other claims cite New York and Chicago death rates in November and December 1903 and endorse Doan's Osteicine as a safe cure.
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