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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1905
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal, a weekly Saturday issue, delivers full pages of news from Lawrence and surrounding areas. It reports on politics, wartime events, rail and postal matters, and regional commerce with emphasis on local readers and notable figures of the era.
A fragmented column notes Chicago grand jury activity on the beef trust, drug and steel investigations, and remarks on governance issues. It mentions Panama Canal procurement, a Kansas Supreme Court candidacy by Judge A. W. Benson, and a marketing push for a catarrh remedy. Also listed are telegraph-like community notices, Pullman service plans, and an engraving offer for Hagerman Pass.
A New York Sun report depicts a disheartened figure outside a theater, mocked by a cheerful bystander. The man laments being doomed to theatrical criticism, while a gossipy trader and jokes about dentistry and Arabia’s tooth pigment are noted, drawing a panorama of occupations and reactions.
A Ranger News editor questions why gray squirrels are scarce in Maine wounds, citing a Waterville naturalist who asked Smithsonian researchers. The reply: nearly all gray squirrels migrate, moving from Maine one fall to Tennessee the next, a puzzle scientists have yet to solve.
Local Harlen Mich merchant Geo L Obabb touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best for coughs and colds and urges keeping it on hand for prompt treatment. Advertisement also touts Foley's Kidney Cure with a Kentucky testimonial claiming life-saving kidney support. Barber & Son's markets Foley product.
Proposals from Culvert City clerk Lawrence Kansas May 15 1905 bids due June 1 1905 at 5 p m for furnishing materials and constructing a stone brick or concrete culvert at the crossing of Penn and Mississippi streets plans and specifications on file F D Brooks City Clerk Hagerman Pass hailed as a crowning glory of the Rockies Colorado Midland Railway issues a steel engraving 26 by 40 inches offer to send to any address for 15 cents in stamps write C H Speers G P A Denver
Fortman Hatchery in Alaska reports a record breaking 63,120,000 fish produced last year. The Alaska Packers Association hatchery at Loring, near the southeastern Muska region, spans four lakes over three square miles and remains the world’s largest. Fish enter from the Nalue River via large dam preventing upstream predators. Females are captured to extract eggs, which are incubated until hatching. Young fish stay on the yolk sac about ten weeks before released to swim to the ocean.
Fresno reports J H Simpson vanished from his Ferns home thirty years ago and reappears after a meeting with an old schoolmate. His son J D Simpson learns of him in the city. insurance paid after twelve years, aiding the sons who rise to bank leadership in Texas and Mississippi. The elder prospered as a dry goods worker and postmaster before farming in Keen County. Various ads follow for Blys Liquid Cream Balm, Foley’s Honey and Tar, and travel notices urging trips to Denver and a note on the Wabash line to St Louis.
Fraternal A Aidball hosts a Fun Saturday event featuring the Chi Orchestra and Quartet as part of the May Music Festival. An accompanying health ad touts Foley's Kidney Cure for kidney and bladder issues from Barber & Son's.
A peculiar orange tree in the Fruitlands nursery outside Augusta Georgia is noted for its romantic lineage and diverse descendants. The plant, a thorny evergreen with leafless winter habit, was among the first to attract Western interest after Japan opened to trade, leading to miniature seedling trees sold in tubs for indoor displays and later propagated across the United States and worldwide.
Hannah Pient of Little Keck Arkansas thanks Bockien's Arica Salve for healing sores. The notice mentions Harber & Son's Drug Store and an ad for Frisco System sleeper trains with Southern Railway, Kansas City to Jacksonville, leaving 6:30 PM, Pullman sleepers, electric lighted car. Also notes Ferrin kid gloves and Dty Cleaner product ads.
Classified items describe missing bundle with a blueprint map and rights of way between Winthrop Vermont and old Franklin. Notices advertise rental space on Henry Street, two New Hampshire Street lots, several North Lawrence parcels, a corner lot with a barn, and two New York Street houses in repair. L. O. McIntire lists sale of property and a fire roomed cottage offer.
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