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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1909
Page
4
A reader shares method for delicate strawberry shortcake with multiple approaches. Individual rounds are baked quickly, using two cups pastry flour, salt, baking powder, butter, and milk or cream. Variations include layering with crushed berries, butter, cream, and sugar, plus inventive finishing touches for garnish.
A Topeka health official urges inspectors to curb tainted eggs sold in Kansas markets, warning of substantial consumer losses from adulterated eggs and detailing legal penalties. The piece then shifts to a June progress note on a rapidly recovering stock market, noting gains in railroad and industrial stocks, strong industrial indicators, low interest rates, and optimistic economic prospects. It ends with a small local ad block for Wiedemann and Vermont sugar products.
The Great Bonus Vote contest closes Saturday night with an avalanche of subscriptions. Miss Kate Andrews leads by several thousand votes and is first to pass the million mark. May Morse, Louise Broecker, and Rose Neal Olson climb positions as nine days remain before the June 12 close. Contestants are urged to press on, as votes determine the prizes and no favoritism is shown.
A fragmented OCR item lists several individuals with given titles Miss and Mrs and associated addresses across multiple streets and cities including Ohio Massachusetts Tenessee and Kansas. Names include Louise Broeker May Morse Julia McGrath Gertrude Bruchmiller Rose Neal Olson Elizabeth Kunkel Annus Paasch Myra Spangler Clara Colman Classic Kinzer Anna Hyland Lilly White and others. The text is partial and contains OCR errors.
The St Louis Globe Democrat cites a Boston study asserting it costs about $1,000 per year to support the average American from infancy to death. Over an expected sixty two years the total reaches roughly $62,000 per person, with parents often paying early costs while later earning repay the expense as they raise their own families.
The piece argues that public expense for paupers prisoners and vagrants totals enormous amounts per life and suggests taxing births or gifting annuities. It notes costs for paupers at birth and over a lifetime total millions for the senescent elite while critiquing government as a guardian. It contends that rich Americans could be taxed to fund public needs rather than support dependents.
Residents near Baldwin report gas in small quantities on TL J Stevenson farm three-fourths mile northwest of the depot. While walking a spongey patch he probed ground, ignited gas with a stick, and a flame appeared. Repeated tests show gas that burns, drawing attention to the site.
A York Telegraph report details the success of the first Walter play Paid in Full, its lengthy production run from 1907 to 1908 across New York, Webster’s and Grad Opera houses, and on tour. Wagenhals and Kemper expanded to five companies as the show earned about 4 million in its first season and drew over 2 million attendees. The piece also previews photography topics in Photo-Era Magazine and includes local real estate ads and services in Douglas County.
Dr Eldridge Green argues a mechanical theory of vision with rods and cones. purple secretions in cones essential to sight, reds sensitive to light, tunes not. Monkeys and animals support functions, with results to be shared at the Budapest medical congress. unseen notes mention unrelated local ads.
Real estate transfers listed include Thomas Martin and wife Baldwin with John II Prise transferring Lots 111 and 113 on Baker Street Baldwin for 250. Fr Wm T Sineline and wife Lawrence to Opal A Drake for 350, Lot 71 north Eliot Street bik 24 West Lawrence. Pendleton and wife Lawrence to Thomas W Gibler for 4500, W415 SW1 of sec 22-13-19. Anna Greenwood to Chas Gray and Otto D Gray for 1000, Lots Land 2 Steele's Sub in Earl's Addition Lawrence. Also notes for Thompson's Studio at 615 Mass St, Ed Parsons display, Fred Fein plumbing, Mrs Prentiss Home Store at 909 Tenessee St, Gustafson 911 and local repair services.
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