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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1918
Page
8
Nearly forty men compete for spots on the Kansas track team as outdoor season begins. The loss of Erval Coffey opens a half mile berth while several new runners vie for the half mile and two mile events. Rex Brown underperformed in a Convention Hall race, prompting more newcomers to join trials.
A note from the Illinois coal context mentions SN Carl Matthews as a candidate for Hanna’s running mate, highlighting his strongest season work and contact detail through a phone line for outreach.
Mrs F. Cochrane and son Clark of Iowa City visit Mrs Cochrane's sister Mrs E Haworth. E G Mason of Abilene visits Lawrence. John Newlin travels to Wichita for Friends Yearly Meeting. Mrs Harry Green and Mrs M A Woodard spend day in Kansas City. Lawrence Kane returns to Camp Doniphan after visiting H L Kane. Helen Hoagland to Colorado Springs for school after visiting Elfrieda Fischer in Lawrence. Jack Lawrence leaves for business in Ellsworth. Mrs Carl Andrews of Beatrice Nebraska visits Lawrence. Alice Guenther and Mrs W A Guenther spend day in Kansas City. Mrs Joseph Murray leaves for Easter with Captain Murray at Camp Doniphan. Wesley Tucker reports to Great Lakes Navy Training School. son of S D Tucker of Lawrence. Jean Thompson Nan Goff Etta Poland head to Junction City for Easter. For pure ice cream call Widde mxinns. Palmers Perfumes at McCulloch's Drug Store.
A dated column recounts a marriage license issued to Charles F. Seele and Minne Schupp in Leavenworth and Lawrence. It mentions church services at First Baptist, travel notes, historical seminar papers, local gossip, and short vignettes on odors, a boy’s mischief, and regional curiosities.
The Daily Mail reports The Hague's dispatch that the Dutch cabinet decided on Sunday to formally refuse the Allied grain offer in exchange for Dutch ships. The note highlights Tunisian agriculture with cereals wine olives and livestock, and southern date palm products.
A teacher scolds a pupil who lingered outside. the child explains watching the petals of a rose unfold. The teacher urges the child to be indoors studying botany.
Atherstone, Warwickshire residents uncovered more than 500 in gold and silver hidden in an aged widow’s house after she was moved to the workhouse. A tea caddy under the bed contained nearly 250 and a board noted 79 sovereigns. The piece notes the stark contrast between poverty amid riches and includes brief, unrelated items on packaging, pennies, and home decor.
The piece argues that civilization rests on exploitation of pounds and pence by capitalists and middlemen, while workers bear the sting. It contends there is more prevarication and misrepresentation today, including unconscious lying, as truth is stretched.
A damaged OCR fragment blends quotes on resilience with a tongue in cheek speculation about the Judas-tree. It references Richard Burton and a bellman persona, then veers into questions about a tree named for Judas and its symbolic stigma for certain people.
Barley is highly nutritious and ranks about with wheat as a food. Pearl barley, barley soup additions, and barley meal are common. barley meal can be ground at home and used as a substitute for whole wheat flour or cornmeal with one exception.
A discussion of ancient human history notes that prehistoric man existed at least 250000 years ago with skull discoveries across Europe and that a higher type inhabited central France 25000 years ago, placing human origins in vast antiquity.
A shoe clerk exclaims this thing can't go on as he struggles to fit a number two shoe on a number four foot, illustrating a humorous misfit scene from the Boston Transcript.
A garbled note urges explicitness in dealings as a salesman faces missteps from unclear expectations. It stresses clarity to avoid disappointment and miscommunication in sales discussions.
A brief article discusses the Oriental ruby as a nearly pure alumina oxide with small iron and impurity content, its high specific gravity, and metal aluminum properties. It then describes lichen dyes, noting Roccelli lichen as a source of reds and purples used in France, and outlines the dye extraction method using plant thallus and alkali.
The text argues that stones do not biologically grow. Organic things grow while inorganic items only increase by external factors such as coating or added material, not by intrinsic growth. Stones are formed or chipped from rocks and may be worn by friction but cannot grow like living organisms.
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