Drink Cherry Cheer and Kodak Ads Highlight Local Stores
A jumble of local ads promotes Cherry Cheer bottled by McNish and a Woodward & Co Kodak offer. Dairy products appear at the Creamery with brine refrigeration and home delivery, while the University Meat Market promises reliable goods and timely delivery. Rentable summer fans are offered by Fred Fein at 929 Mass St Beth Phones 400.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNish
Wexs
Fred Fein
Mass
St. Beth
Truth in Funeral Orations and the Dead
A critical column argues that funeral speeches distort truth and flatter the deceased. It denounces clergy and speakers who praise a dead person’s life despite known wrongs, urging honesty about character for the sake of the living and future youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arasca
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Feather Dusters Should be Discarded Says Woman
A reader urges replacing feather dusters with a moistened cheese cloth duster. She advises dusting furniture, openwork carvings, and edges, and lifting small items to dust beneath them. For walls and ceilings she suggests a broom head covered with canton flannel as a mop.
No Place for Gabriel and other notes from a Cleveland crime scene
A Washington Star dateline recounts YH K Adair discussing a Cleveland crime where he admits failure and notes Cleveland crooks dominate the scene. The item also mentions a stranger at a fish store and an auction listing for household goods and books at 640 Mass St by J Glathart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. Adair
Cleveland
Washington Star
Adair
John D. Gough
Gough
Solemly
Anegel Gabriel
Cleve
Mass
J. Glathart
Royal curiosities and jeweled tokens across monarchies
A colorful catalog of royal adornments and legends. The new queen of England is linked to a seashell on gold, gifts from Edward to Victoria and Patricia pins, alchemic turquoises of Persia, a coal bangle, and a doomed courtly superstition about the German Kaiser's ring once tied to Frederick the Great.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seemey
Eingland
Bhadringham
Prince George
Edward
Marienbad
Mar
Patricia
Balmoral
Victoria
Persia
Fes
Prussia
House of Hohenzollern
Scrapbook project builds local history from clippings
A women’s club uses newspapers and magazines to assemble a local history scrapbook. Members collect town articles and interview inhabitants, confronting gaps and inaccuracies. Public interest grows as hoarded issues and clipping bureaus yield valuable material, revealing the town’s quiet events.
Choice of Vegetables for Courses
A Louisville Herald note on proper vegetable pairings for meats. Lamb pairs with potatoes peas spinach or asparagus while mutton goes with turnip cauliflower potatoes or spinach. Roast goose suits creamed prune chestnut stuffing Hubbard squash or apple sauce. Roast beef couples with cauliflower onions squash or string beans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Herald
Silk and lint removal tips from old newspaper clipping
A piano or fabric care snippet explains damp paper on silk before ironing to prevent lint and add gloss. It also recommends pumice stone for cleaning pans and potato water to remove mud stains from clothes, highlighting simple household tricks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolla
Tips for household care and kitchen tricks
The note suggests put a drop of oil in umbrella tops monthly to prevent rust, keeps a lemon fresh on waxed paper with air excluded, and claims onions lose odor if earth is pressed on knife after use. It also mentions quick hemming with palm pressure and praises the Creamery whipped creams as elegant.
Mischief and the Yellow Stripe Cat Prank
In Kendall, Helen and Millie paint a white cat with bright yellow stripes, sparking a citywide mystery as pets vanish and reappear marked like the lost cats. Aunt Abbie fears Toby cat, while Millie gleefully boasts of the prank and plans more mischief before the town uncovers the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo
Helen
Millie
Anant Abbie
Hettie Barnes
Abbie
Tobycat
Toby
Helena
Aunt Abbie
Twinkee
Hanny
Mia
Kiefer
Kgien
Ellen
Telmown
Kendall
Local Commerce and Advertisements Mixup In Vintage Notices
A collage of old time ads offers dairy products from Bell 7853 and Maple Lane, floral orders from Kline Floral Co and successors, plus a clinic pitch for Hall's Texas Wonder and Dr W Parsons jeweler services. It mentions spring rains, umbrellas, and 60 days treatment packages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
E. Wall
Olive Strest
St. Levis
Meo
City Examination and Road Notice Details
City School examination schedules list reading writing geography history and science subjects for May 27 1911 with spelling arithmetic and botany noted. A separate road vacation petition in Douglas County Kansas requests a 30 foot wide right of way and public viewing on May 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cathe Board
Eat County Commissioners
Dowlas Couity
Kansas
Baul
He Couselerk
Deiglts
Cwelve
Hees
Pete
Fiat
P Bown
Doulas
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Woodward & Co's
Kodak
University
G. A. Eliot
Fay
Pierce
ED Klein
Mitchell Motor Cars
Kaw Valley Auto Co
Ceneral Distributors
Main St
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Wieders, Metcalf
Lawretica Transfer Co
Mazda
Phoenix
Aris
John G.powers
Simon
River Styx
Gabriel
Bry
Mma Nordica
Mischief Maker
Norah
Harrigan
Mrs. Harrigan
Stertma
Aeta & Each
Fd. W. Paresons
Mass St
Bell
Jersey
Maple’ ‘Lane
Pride of Lawrence
E. Henry
C. L. Butter
Kline Floral Co
Luthers
McNish Sanitary Settling Works
Hay
Respect
Lawrence Daily Journal-World
Oerd
Raymond's
Kavinonmi’s
Sherman Sros
Windmill
Parsons
Tlt
Mass. St
Ako
Colin
Capler Tie
Westmaeler
K. U
Boyles
Bar- Hieldes Seed Co
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Pacific
Grand W. Burnet
C. E. Dreyer
P. Coland
the Real Blacksmith
Henry Phons
C. J. Erksen Furniture Company
J. House & Son
Robertson’s
West End
Union Pacific
California
Afl
Denver
H. G. Kaill
Lof Walnut Street
City Ticket Office
Mass. Street
B. Alexander
J. HL
Robinson
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