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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1910
Page
2
Fragmented page presents an 1910 Lawrence Kansas journal ad and assorted items including a prospective sale of the Journal folding press, local opinion snippets on Taft Roosevelt and Lorimer, notes on population trends, oblique references to Doan’s Kidney Pills and a brief China funerals excerpt. Also includes advertisements and stray editorial curiosities with local names and places.
A Kansas City newspaper reports sensational gossip about Dr Hyde and the Swope family. It describes fear of the physician, a protracted European retreat for Mrs Swope, and Tom Swope discarding food after a nightmare involving tampering with a ice chest and refrigerator contents.
A distressed couple in a factory town grapples with wealth and duty. The wife defends enduring hardship for love while the husband laments her drift toward ease. Interwoven are late night kitchen scenes and a concrete sales pitch for Allen's Foot-Ease remedy, including an abrupt product insertion. The fragmentary text then shifts to a benign meditation on blood as music and a shell metaphor, concluding with a vague naturalist nod.
A public notice extols ZEMO as an eczema and skin cure after testing, praising its vegetable liquid formula and skin friendly use on infants, with promises of a home cure booklet. Also mentions physician-like lectures, Foley remedies, and local shop O. P. Barber & Son promoting health products and the suffrage debate.
Ordinance No 556 directs the Lawrence Water Company to install a fire hydrant at the corner of Dane and Mississippi Streets and connect it to water mains. The measure enacted by city officials takes effect after fabrication and approval May 11.
Advertisement text promoting Dr Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a non secret medicine with a printed bottle label listing ingredients. It asserts no alcohol or habit forming drugs and that it uses pure American plant extracts. World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, NY, endorses the product. Some readers doubt its efficacy.
An ad touts Electric Bitters as a cure for nervous, melancholic, weak women and general ailments. It claims many female troubles, headaches, and weak kidneys improve with this remedy. The pitch asks skepticism but promises satisfaction and names QC P. Barber & Son.
Government ads promise lifelong railway clerks with salaries from 200 to 1400 yearly. Examinations by Uncle Sam for railway mail, post office, carrier and clerical roles are offered with free scholarships. Free information and applications to Central Schools Rochester NY. Also notes on remedies, local notices, arnica salve ads, cautions about mercury in catarrh treatments, and bids for a Lecompton bank building due May 18 1910.
Public notice from Kansan City Marshal Renee Herd dated 1910 announces changes to the north end bridge fill and new disposal area east of town. It directs orderly conduct and enforcement at the site and warns of penalties for noncompliance.
WANTED situations by a lady for laundry work sweeping by day call or write 28 Vermont Street. WANTED good white girl for general housework 745 Mississippi Street. WANTED energetic young man to work in store learn trade also uses a washer competent timer Herman Broeker 834 Mass Street. WANTED bright lady for employment can earn 3.00 per day B C Journal office. WARG—Gents clothes shoes wanted high price. two days only Kansas City buyer L Cohn Santa Fe hotel Bell 700 Home 1136.
The snippet markets horse sires Rutger Alcantara and others with fees and foaling terms dated 1910. It also lists multiple Douglas County political candidates and candidacy notices for sheriff, clerk of district court, county treasurer, superintendent, and county attorney, all subject to Republican primaries.
Business directory style listing from Lawrence Kansas era. Names include Barker & Means Attorneys at Law. T. Gielispie M D general practitioner. Ralph E Barnes PH M D. J. SIMMONE physician at 13 Aleses Street. F. D. Morse M D. Dr. G W Jones general practitioner surgeon and gynecology. R. Bechtel. J. Glaia physician and surgeon. KEEFE'S STABLE. WORK BROS SHARP. Overton Ligh ts Architects. Abstracts of Title by Henry & Mass. Lawrence Railway Light Co. many phone numbers and addresses listed.
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