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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1919
Page
5
About thirty five visiting deans were entertained with a banquet at the University club last night. The event featured lemonade and wafers, table decorations, and brief talks by various men with Chancellor Strong acting as toastmaster. The evening was largely social and informal.
A long list of Lawrence residents and visitors. many travel to Kansas City Topeka Ottawa and Tulare Calif. People named include Miss Marie Gibbons Miss Bess Hargis Miss Minar Ramsey Prof. J Jones and Mrs. W. R. Stubbs among others. Notes mention visits home from military units and a Town concert forthcoming by the Women’s Glee Club at the University of Kansas.
A community event at Mrs. Fo Re Tlotmes home featured a three course meal at 7 p m. Attendees enjoyed games and pantomimes, with prize awards for Hawana and Mattoon and a showcase of hat trimming by a local milliner. The gathering included music, readings, and subsequent notices of future meetings and speakers.
A fragment from a vintage cookbook style page lists desserts and savory bites. It describes frozen pudding with candied fruit, custard base, layering, and freezing. spiced cranberry jelly with cranberries and spices. browned cheese crackers. somerset smets with stock and anchovy essence. and a fruit salad with grapefruit, apples, grapes, and pecans, finished with whipped cream.
Word reached here yesterday that Miss Claudia Taylor Pendleton died at her Frostburg Maryland home. Pendleton was well known in Lawrence and had visited here several times. The notice mentions Miss Clindia Taylor Pendleton, her aunt, in relation to the illness.
The article traces mirrors from early sixteenth century furniture to earlier pocket mirrors in ladies toilettes from the twelfth to fifteenth century. It notes metal mirrors, bone and ivory eyed needles in Europe, and Spanish material sources before 1563. It ends with a wry cartoonish jab at Shakespearean theater business in hamlets.
The quotation, attributed to Hawthorne, argues that great men rise by standing on the world’s collective greatness. It asserts heroes need a heroic environment to conceive ideas and perform deeds, and that a hero is defined by the context surrounding them.
The excerpt recalls Francis Bacon leaving Cambridge at fourteen and Swift’s contempt for teachers, then pivots to a home remedy for lime water and military rank structures, ending with a note that social norms justify follies and immodest dress through custom, as discussed by Grit.
For sale a 1917 Ford sedan in good condition. Owner notes car like new after 6 PM today. Call mass 8.
A quirky note says there is about as much nourishment in a quart of peanuts as in three pounds of steak, followed by a dry remark about lacking gravy and no hash for the next day. The piece reads as a brief, humorous health aside with no named individuals or organizations.
The remark ponders chivalry and etiquette in elevators and tobacco smoke. It contrasts a courteous man who removes his hat with a lack of compunction about filling the air with smoke around ladies. The observation frames social expectations in a humorous urban vignette.
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