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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
6
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The Baldwin column records registration activity, club elections, and social notes. It lists the Select Black Jack Board, Phi Mu reception for National President Max Nelle, and Nautilus Club officers, with extensive personal notices about residents, visits, illnesses, and family gatherings in the region.
The note lists several Bracketts and local residents attending a meeting on Monday. Attendees include Mrs Warby and Miss Martie Clovis, and mentions of road improvements and social visits across the area. Family gatherings and informal dinners are described among neighbors.
A quirky note from the multimery market highlights a novelty hat dubbed the Shuebird with a pink and blue theme. The brim uses old rose straw, the crown features French blue grosgrain ribbon, and blue ribbon stitching edges the brim. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Ober are mentioned, along with a Kansas City business trip by I. M. Lieht and a pineapple item described as TH. W. fruit.
A guide from the National Emergency Food Commission on choosing crops for moist low ground or high dry soil. It recommends celery onions late cucumbers for wet spots and early peas beans corn melons squashes for dry, sunny plots, plus edge plantings like currants and rhubarb and advises focusing on a few crops such as string beans and peas for maximum freshness.
The directory reports 56 parishes with 6700 pupils and three orphan asylums in the diocese. It notes 2500 converts, Dod marriages and 647 deaths last year, under Rt. Rev. John Ward of Leavenworth. The Lawrence church belongs to the Leavenworth diocese.
Wannaska Minnesota resident Kamit Jee reports her daughter’s chronic cough vanished after trying Fole’s Money and Tar. She states the cough worsened with cold seasons and responding medicines failed until this remedy, which led to lasting relief. The advertisement promotes Fole’s Honey and Tar for coughs and colds and whooping cough.
The Leavenworth diocese reports about 60 000 Catholics in the new official directory. It lists 29 churches and 168 priests serving the diocese, along with five colleges.
Dean FLT Kelly of the University of Kansas cautions that the war and a new Kansas school law will create a shortage of high school teachers next fall. About fifty to sixty percent of male Kansas high school teachers are draft eligible or already in military units. The new law requires high school teachers to be college graduates, changing from the previous certificate that covered both grades.
The article urges town and school garden movements to expand to urban plots to bolster food supplies. It notes the National Emergency Food Garden Commission led by Charles Lathrop Pack aims to enroll up to 1,000,000 new gardeners with guidance from experts and educators. It highlights okra as a suggested crop and outlines sowing and spacing tips. An executive session of the Chamber of Commerce is set for tomorrow to discuss finances.
The snippet shows a Douglas County Home and Farm monthly report dated April 20 1917. It includes certification by G C Sizer Superintendent and references Monti Enaing. The legible text suggests a formal county record entry with administrative headings and signatures.
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