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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1900
Page
3
Notice to subscribers requesting prompt reporting of undelivered papers by 6 o clock to enable earlier delivery adjustments. The Journal asks patrons to notify the office and asks that papers not delivered be deducted from bills for the gravediag month.
A damaged OCR fragment touts a farming grant related to Haw aii county and Osaris region. It mentions a farm offer and a free mailed item by Adrieu J. B. Loceworp of Annes City Missouri, aiming to help fruit growers and farmers broadly.
In Lincoln Nebraska on March 20 the Democratic convention opened with James Dablinan as chair. Thomas J Nolan selected as temporary chair, then a permanent organization formed. The platform endorses the Chicago 1896 plank, calls for direct senatorial election, federal pensions, anti trust measures, and opposition to irrigation and certain Mexican policy. Miles in Omaha splits occur as populist factions and middle-of-the-roaders pursue separate conventions while Miles visits harbor defenses en route to Savannah.
An OCR fragment advertises Backice’s Arnies Barre as the best salve for cats, sores, ulcers, chafing, rashes, and piles with a money back guarantee. It markets by a barber boss and promises price details in yen.
A collage of quips and jests from various papers includes a drug clerk joking about remedies and prices, a bride confessing artificial teeth, a dentist gag about extra charges, and a playwright lamenting exhausted ideas. The snippets capture early 20th century humor and social quirks in brief banter.
A French reader recounts Van Bosboom a prominent Transvaal burgher famed as a deadly marksman. He reportedly never fired a live shot blind to death, aided by his rifle, Bible, and Kruger’s favor, as he pursued English officers with a signature move. Gold bullets marked his victims when he returned from battle.
Washington reports Senate passage of the legislative appropriation bill and coast defenses funding, with debate over Puerto Rican relief terms. House actions include border river surveys and a dam project on the Rio Grande. Local crime notes from Illinois, Chicago, and Kansas detail a fatal domestic incident, a street killing, and a child’s death by fire, while St Louis hosts a pro British aid meeting and a medical ad highlights Norway Pine Syrup.
A fragmented warning advises against taking internal medicines before birth as they may endanger both mother and child. The note underscores health risks and urges caution for expectant mothers.
A Wednesday matinee scene shows a middle aged wife and her husband, who returns with excuses while another man secretly courts a younger woman behind the wife’s back. A later cab ride and dinner reveal the husband’s double life, framed by a backdrop of adversities in his business.
An Albany dairyman sought medical help for a sick child with croup and was advised to try Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The child improved within hours, prompting neighbors and friends to request the remedy from the local drugstore run by Onto Schols, increasing demand in the area.
The opera company expenses rise from forty to forty five thousand dollars weekly, about a million a season. Singers receive large salaries, with prima donnas at two hundred sixteen thousand eight hundred and principal men at two hundred sixteen thousand, totaling five hundred thirty two thousand six hundred. The Metropolitan stockholders profit from boxes, parterre box value at one hundred dollars per night, with ownership tied to stock investments and notable box sales discussed.
A south England encounter recounts a man who for three years eats one daily meal, mainly apples, drinking only the apple juice as his fluid. He sits to his single meal about three o'clock and spends 20 minutes to half an hour eating, appearing as a healthful literary worker.
Lawrence resident A. L. Mason reports relief from months of backache and kidney discomfort after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Dick Bros. of Massachusetts Street. The remedy, sold nationally by Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y., is praised for dissolving pain and restoring healthier function.
A fragmented timetable lists trains including the California Express, Topeka Express, and Chicago Express with daily and Sunday listings. It notes first class paying limits, departures from Kansas City, and branch services to South western Kansas Leavenworth.
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