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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1906
Page
4
Frank Vaughn, long a help at the Palace Bar bar shop, joins WF Weiss and invites friends to visit the KU Barber shop. The shop touts the town’s only electric massage battery and a favored chair service. Tickets are used on Saturday night to prevent wrong turns with dipped dates and caramels, Wiedemann's offers 200 per pound.
May 18 market report shows Kansas Oley cattle receipts around 1,000 with steady tones. Native steers fetch 14.25 to 5.40 per hundredweight, stockers and feeders 3.00 to 4.60, cows and heifers 2.59 to 5.25, bulls 3.00 to 4.25, calves 8.0 to 10.86. Chicago cattle receipts about 1,500 with steady tone. steers 4.15 to 6.10, stockers and feeders 6.0 to 10.48, cows and heifers 1.45 to 5.85. receipts 15,000. top around 8.57.
Tomorrow morning at 16 o'clock Prof D A Doyle will lecture and demonstrate how to make cakes that will when cut. All are in sample the good things made by the Professor.
Tomorrow Will Be Parasol Day features plain black white and embroidered fabrics. The item list notes muslin and fancy silk materials as part of a parasol themed sale or display.
Buobs band performs the first summer concert at Center Park after a faithful winter. Select your commencement present and have it laid aside. A Dowling game is planned at Merchant’s Sileys with teams formed by attendees. May 22 marks cream purchases for Meriden Creamery in Kansas City Missouri. Dr L Powell reflects on patriotism in schools and aim to share storytelling. Rain threats materialize only as light drizzle. dry weather raises crop concerns but not immediate damage.
Local voice extols Skoop Ferguson the king of bootblacks promising mirror shines for footwear. Advertisements list Lawrence Transfer Co moving and packing services at 42 Mass St Beth phones 15. Raymond's Buggy paint and Wiedewann's orange ice offer goods and flavors.
A collage of ads and notices from a historical paper lists used gas and electric goods, photo services, and optical work. It includes prices for photos, sugar sale, and electrical supplies, with several local names and addresses. Miss Jessia Linton returns to work after illness. the jury in district court is discharged. discussion of an Eagles home and building in the city.
W E Spalding 807 Mass street notes an examination for teaching certificates in city schools to be held Saturday May 19 and Saturday May 26. May 19 subjects include Reading penmanship geography history physiology didactics beekeeping rhetoric and constitution. May 26 subjects cover orthography arithmetic English grammar botany drawing model law and elements of physical natural sciences. Kodak and cameras offered for rent with developing services available.
May 11 1906 city records show Warren street and intersecting streets in Lawrence Kansas slated for grading curving and paving from New Jersey street to Delaware street with limestone or concrete curbs and vitrified brick paving two courses sand foundation cushion and grout. Roadway to be thirty feet wide with ten annual installments for payment. City Clerk Brooks signs.
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