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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1920
Page
6
Residents attend sales and socials across the area while families travel to Lawrence Topeka and Manhattan. Frequent gatherings include showers, school events, a Halloween party, and church activities. Several residents and visitors, including Mr. O'Dea Miss Kahn and the Bleakley family, are noted for travel, health, and festivities.
R A Phenicie Walter Bleakley and Glenn Michaels served on the election board. Mr and Mrs W M Thomas sold their fruit farm near Stanwood and will take possession soon. Residents traveled to Kansas City for election returns and West of Reno residents noted new highway progress including a bridge near John Harmon. Local visits included Rev A B Schrader from Kansas City and many neighbors at gatherings and dinners. Births, school events, and community meetings are recorded with names such as Joe Davis Ella Leary Stella Ayer Mabel Day and Carl Mitchell among others.
The second month of the school ended Monday with several students named as not absent or tardy. A Hallowe en social followed in the school house Friday afternoon with apples served. Visitors included Mrs. T. Griffin and family, Miss Kathryn and Nannie Howard, Ruth Schafstall, and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Willy with children. Mrs. Peter Dreher and Miss Rose Dreher hosted the Lutheran Ladies Aid event afterward.
Attendees visited the Sibley store auction sale on Friday and Saturday. Mr. Cal Sizer and Paul Koehler attended Monday night’s talk by Congressman E C Little.
A skin specialist notes Mentho Sulphur clears pimples on face neck and body quickest. Pimples dry up and disappear with the inexpensive, harmless remedy. Ask a druggist for Mentho Sulphur and use it like cold cream.
An old advertisement touts Brownstone to restore gray faded or streaked hair in two shades Light to Medium Brown and Dark Brown to Black. It promises instant beauty with harmless results and directs readers to Kenton Pharmaceutical Co. Covington Kentucky for a 50c trial package and 11 cents postage and packaging.
Fragmented advertisement-like text touts a tonic claimed to fight disease and restore health. Appears as garbled prose with references to doctors and drugs but lacks clear details, dates, or verifiable entities.
An old style notice promises to grow hair and cure dandruff with a “genuine Indiana” recipe. It offers a free sample ointment Kotalko by mail, requiring 10 cents to cover the notice cost and directed to J. H. Brittain, 82-301 Station F New York.
A home made cough syrup recipe centers on 2% ounces of Pinex mixed with a pint of plain sugar syrup or clarified molasses honey or corn syrup. It claims to ease chest coughs bronchitis hoarseness croup and asthma within 24 hours and offers a money back guarantee. The Pinex compound is described as a concentrated Norwegian pine extract known for healing membranes.
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