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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1921
Page
4
A digest of United States and world affairs with editorials on budget reform and prohibition. Reports from Kansas City murder trial jury size and slacker lists, liberty bond outlook, and wartime debt. Local notes include Masonic temple expansion in Lawrence, Irish ammunition raids, and Douglas County wool pool meeting outcomes.
May 27, 1858 report notes Bloss Purdy ice cream saloon opposite Free State hotel and Woodward Finley drug store move to new hall. Law practice partnership formed by James V. Lane and James Christian in Duncan's, Frazer opens jewelry shop in Eldridge block, Capt. Sarcoxie reports a stolen horse.
Reprinted from the Republican Daily Journal. The Episcopal bazaar netted 700 dollars from gross receipts of 1,000. Cars for the street railway are spoken for and will be ready when track work begins. Joel Grover farms a 2.5 acre patch with ten thousand black walnut trees. District No. 6 to get brick 20 by 40 foot schoolhouse, finished and furnished.
Toward and Spencer ship fruit and butter in substantial quantities to the less favored portions of the state. By yesterday they had moved thirty one crates of strawberries and one thousand pounds of butter to points along the Kansas Pacific west of the Junction, with costs estimated at two thousand five hundred sixty to three thousand sixty dollars.
Twenty five years ago in Lawrence items show Dr Bumgardner moving his office over Newmarks. City schools picnic at Bismark grove with Wiedemann providing ice cream. University Athletic Association shifts colors from crimson to crimson and olive. Bibson reports seventy plus workers on onions then moving to a ten acre watermelon patch. High School budget commencement issue released detailing the school system, teachers, and this year’s graduates.
A new Lawrence resident, Pastor B. H. Hobbs, shares impressions from the Chamber of Commerce Get-to-Gather, praising neighborliness and urging teamwork among churches, businesses, and citizens to improve social life. He notes some unsafe conditions, calls for action, and promotes local events and Memorial Hospital fundraisers.
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