The Journal and the 1908 Kansas Campaign Echoes
The Journal notes its status as Lawrence Kansas leading paper with telegraphic 24 hour reports and weekly eight page edition. The piece blends political commentary urging strong Republican support for Taft era alignment, warns against last minute smears, touts Roosevelt and national policy as path to prosperity, and cites local Western Kansas voters and campaign rhetoric.
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Lawrence
Journal
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the Journal
Kans
First Report on Juvenile Court Law Delinquents
Governor Hoch releases the first statement under the 1905 1907 Juvenile Court law showing costs 13549.65 for 1908 with 705 delinquent youths under supervision. Parole violations sent 86 to industrial schools. 697 boys 89 girls paroled July 1 1907. end 1908 1006 boys 167 girls under parole. 358 boys 23 girls pending. Spouses Parmenter Heffeltinger wed in Baldwin with attendees from local and university circles.
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Trusney
Hoch
Real Estate Transfers and Warranty Deeds Recorded
Real estate transfers in Douglas and Baldwin counties include W L Banning to Ralph E Standing for 1 acre NW of SE quarter sec 6 15 20 and Otto A Fisher with Rose E Smith for 25 acres in SES of sec 21 12 20. Deeds mention Helen Roseberry to J S W Dean and G S Parmenter to J S W Dean, with other Baldwin parcels. Quit claim by Helen Rosenberry et al to J W Dean for Chapel Street lots. Includes unrelated cold remedy ad copy and Grove signature on package.
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W. L Banning
Douglas County
Ralph E. Standing
Otto A. Fisher
Lawrence Te Rose E. Smith
Helen Roseberry
Et Lal
Baldwin
J. S. W. Dean
Chapel Street
G. S. Parmenter
Herman Thompson
Chas. E. Simmons
Robert W. Curtis
York City
Laura and
Ella Engle
Lawrence
Dread Heights
Helen Rosenberry
Haviland’s Merry Takers at Bowersock Opera House
On November 3 at the Bowersock Opera House the Haviland’s Merry Takers present a new bill. Election returns will be announced from the stage between acts. Prices 23¢, 35¢, 30e. The piece notes liquor as making some men imagine they can sing.
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Bowersock Opera House
Haviland’s Merrytakers
Sister The KWneys Weakened by Over-Work
A fragment suggests health concerns about overwork impacts on kidneys and urinary issues, mentioning sisters and a youthful condition. The text is unclear and incomplete, hindering definitive details about people or events.
Digestive aid and local ads crowd 19th century page
An OCR fragment shows an advertisement for Pape's Diapepsin promising rapid indigestion relief and digesting heavy meals in five minutes. It mixes medical claims with local business blurbs, like candy makers, church sales, photography studios, and various merchants, all once common on a small town newspaper page.
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Pape
Labor Factions Split Over Taft Bryan Support in Union News
The Labor World reports mixed union reactions to Taft and Bryan with Gompers criticized for meddling while several unions pledge support for Taft. Prominent organizers from the AF of L and various crafts debate labor alignment and election impact amid wage and canal project ties.
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Dolan
Organiza
Taft
Panama Canal
Alwara
United States Attorney General's Office
Naw
Central Labor Council of Seattle
Uich
Io Seattle Local 131
Fulda
Garapera
Wiliam Jennings Brgen
William H. Taft
James RE. Ryan
C. F. D. Frew
Photo Engravers’ Union No. 3
Democratic Party
Standard-Ol Company
Adolph’ Krieger
Licns No
United Brotherhood of Carprnters and Joiners
Gompers
Elias Wolf
Cigermakers’ Union No
Bryan My
Vieter Bulk
Amalgamated Painters
Lere
Clairvoyant and trance readings advertised in Lawrence
An advertisement lists Mme Caleste offering life readings and business advice at the Lawrence house with hours 10 am to 8 30 pm except Sundays, noting proximity to University Market. Also mentions cider sale, animal feed, lighting wiring by Fred W Fein, and Keister's Ladies Tailoring College at 700 Mass St Lawrence with Miss Maud Brockelsby as manager.
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Mme
Caleste
Lawrence House
Keister’s Ladies’ Tailoring College
Maud Brockelsby
Mass
Lawrence
Local Ads and Rail Schedule Fragments
A mixed fragment of business notices and services list various shops and offerings including bread cakes pies and a bakery. Mentions North Lawrence Elm Street Sunflower Shoes and Mass Street with addresses and phone hints. Also notes a Union Pacific timetable with eastbound and local trains and partial times.
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Wolf & Menxed
West End Bakery
North Lawrence Branch
A. Ewings
Elm Street
Light savings offer with tungsten lamps and shades
The notice promotes replacing candle power lamps with higher wattage tungsten lamps to save on current costs. It outlines substitutions such as 16 candle power lamps for one 48 candle power lamp, or 32 candle power for 32, with costs described. It emphasizes brighter, cheerier homes during dark days and stormy evenings and notes low electric current expenses with tungsten lamps and Holophane shades.
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Lawrence
Douglas County
Kansas
Stugh Blair
Norman N. Brown, Jr
Clara E Brown
Clara E. Brown
Hugh Blair
Dowlas County
North Lawrence
Dong County
Anid
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