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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1915
Page
4
Miss Hester Wineoop of Okiona Mississippi is visiting her sister Mrs Belle Stiydam on Ohio Street.
Fragmentary grocery page lists items including tomatoes cucumbers radishes pineapples carrots and oysters. Mentions vendors and brands with scattered unreadable text and partial names.
Wyandotte county District Court hears a quo warranto action brought by County Attorney James M. Meek seeking dissolution of the Fraternal Aid Union of Denver and its two merging lodges. Fifty dissenting lodges across fourteen states are cited. The Denver union and the Lawrence association merged in July 1914 under each state insurance commissioners oversight. Local officers deny knowledge of the suit.
Mrs. J. M. Conley of 1125 New Jersey St Lawrence credits Doan’s Kidney Pills with easing long standing kidney trouble and back pain after trying several remedies. She reports sharp pains, lumbago and poor overall condition improved from the start and recommends others to use the same remedy from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
The page lists state track meet results with multiple classes and regional standings including times and places for H.-Evans Osage, Wright Baldwin, Humboldt, Neodesha, and other schools. It also reports a child thrown from a buggy after a horse bolted near Massachusetts and Seventh. the horse kicked the child in the head but is described as only mildly injured.
Knoxville reader Mrs Mamie Towe shares a testimonial praising Cardui as a life changing remedy after six doctors failed to help her. She claims the tonic revived her mobility and energy, urging other ailing women to try it. The item also notes a sale of thoroughbred White Leghorn hatching eggs at three dollars per hundred via Bell 760F3.
The ad argues total cost equals paint price plus application, and Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint uses far fewer gallons for the same job, claiming hundreds of cases prove it. It urges buying by the name Devoe for best value.
The First Baptist Church plans a Mother's Day service on May 2 beside its regular communion in the church. All mothers are honored, and attendees are invited to wear a flower or a white flower in memory. Prayers are available in the vestibule, with ice cream and fruit treats offered by a local vendor.
Local notices report Houck building a large two story barn with basement twelve miles southwest of town and Piper constructing a six by ten foot hay barn near town. Opperman replaces gates on farm west of city, Varnum to complete a 60 by 80 feet two story all purpose barn near the Country Club. Dr G A Hamman advertises eye ear nose and throat services, office over Dick Bros Drug Store. May 4. A daughter was born to Tesse Thornton and wife at 1300 Delaware. Benj Wade of Tonzanoxie visiting Maryland street. Ga Gallop of Memphis visiting Willis Rouse. Arrest: John Doe arrested for intoxication, fined $6.50.
The Panama Exposition is described as the greatest of its kind, two miles long and half a mile wide, costing over $50,000,000. It promises to dwarf other world fairs, while a health ad for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claims to aid digestion and restore normal stomach function.
Markets recap from Kansas City and Chicago shows cattle and hog receipts and mixed price ranges. Prime fed steers 8.25 to 9.49 per cwt, hogs weak to lower, cash wheat and corn futures hovering with unrevealed gains, and May closing values around 1.39 for wheat and 1.62 for corn amid uneven demand.
The Lawrence Business College baseball team opened their season at Tonganoxie and fell 11 to 8 to the veteran Tonganozie squad. Kennedy and Russet led the winning side on the mound, while Lawrence’s lineup including Johnson, Warkman, Harries, Nairn, Heller, Smith, Munsen, and King struggled to connect. The article notes ongoing enrollment and staff updates at the college, with Miss Christine Miller taking a commercial teaching post at Newton High School.
John Anderson, who farms about three and a half miles southwest of Clinton, recently sold in Lawrence two Chester White pigs about fourteen months old weighing around 1000 pounds. Anderson is noted for raising and marketing one of the finest strains of white hogs in the Middle West.
The sophomores won the University inter-class meet held on McCook field with a ten point margin. Freshmen were second with 40 points, juniors 27, and seniors 25. The event occurred in rain making the track heavy and the two mile race was a spectacular highlight.
Spectacular afternoon events show Grady leading Poos in the two mile as Grady stays ahead at the tape. Rodkey powers the sophomores to relay victory with a late surge. Sprint, hurdle and field results list multiple top finishers across Hazen and Belmont players with times and heights.
Indianapolis Savings Realty Company announces a large subdivision sale in Lawrence. Experts nationwide note Lawrence as a prime growth area while local preparations at 8380 Massachusetts St proceed. The sale opens Thursday with plans to offer affordable monthly terms to attract buyers and rapidly move units in ten days.
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