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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1906
Page
1
Unclear report discusses dry lands versus irrigated land returns and sugar factory prospects. Mentions Western Rancho and Eastern Colorado markets, with references to climate, rainfall, and profitability. Contact Geo Li at 745 Massachusetts Street for details.
Chester Gillette testified in the Grace Brown murder case in Perkimer New York describing the night of the tragedy He admitted knowing Grace Brown was pregnant and said he did not stop the drowning He claimed the death was accidental and that he did not intend harm Witnesses including Hattie Benedict appeared on film during the proceedings and challenged his version of events As the court debated his responses the crowded courtroom reflected intense public interest.
Sunday afternoon at 3pm the Lasrtea lodge of Elsa will hold memorial services. Members and families are invited to attend. Also notices of market items and cattle prices from Kansas City and Chicago data follow, including steers, stockers, cows, bulls, and grains with varied prices.
The Interstate Commerce Commission resumes a hearing on Colon Pacific Coal cases. AJ Smith, a miner backing charges, warns of a forged murder plot by poison to derail the inquiry. Aims to remove land office witness Mynders in Salt Lake City.
Theodore Poehler returned from Kansas City last evening. Miss Pearl Laptad, principal of the tretolog school for nurses at Belle Memorial Hospital Bowsdale, spent Thanksgiving with her mother Mrs Peter Laptad. Alise Bradoe Laptad returned to Kansas City this morning with Pearl Laptad to visit for a few days.
Ten of the most desperate prisoners broke from the Long County Jail at Lougdasand Coby by sawing bars and escaping through a corridor window. Six fled through the hole to the outside, and two men remain unaccounted as guards opened the cell door at 6 o clock this morning. Investigating the cause, Mrs T J Losey hosted a social for Miss Swat of Colorado Springs, with refreshments after. A school girls dance and local piano sales attract attention as Bell Brothers advertises an auction and a Strohber piano is shown to buyers from Ohio and Topeka.
A collage of notices and classified items includes toy and furniture sales in Lynchburg, with two willi offering quilts for $1.50 and doll furniture plus games. Also reported: wreck details of a southern trains crash killing President Spencer and others, with fatal and injured counts and missing operator Mattox. Democratic leader General L Victor Baughman dead at 63. Various local ads urge loans, photography, oysters, and meatballs, with shop names and addresses.
Governor Pardee pardoned Steffens and Wyman six year terms to testify against Abraham Kuef and Mayor Schmitz in San Francisco ballot stuffing cases. Both had been sentenced to five years for stuffing ballot boxes in local primaries before the mayoral election.
Judge Paul W. Lioebarger, just back from a five year trial post in the Philippines, says war between the United States and Japan is inevitable. He cites Japan's push to dominate eastern commerce after the war with Russia. The report notes the mood and strategic aims shaping early conflict expectations.
A fragmented report covers labor turmoil in Chicago with Albert Young and the Teamsters case where leaders plead guilty and plan to testify. It also recounts a large Thanksgiving gathering at Captain J G Haskell’s home in Harrisonville Missouri with multiple families, a 70th birthday, and Old New England dinner traditions.
Contract for plumbing heating and gas at a new building by the American Cement Piastar Cos at the corner of New Hamden and Winthrop streets was awarded today to Frack Babe Kott. The project marks a notable state facility and a point of pride for Mr Rahakoff.
Washington reports Charlies RK Cleary, paymaster of the armored cruiser Tennessee, denied mutiny rumors among its stokers after a voyage to Panama with Roosevelt. He said only a few confined for minor offenses and that the false tale spread publicity stunts.
Local social notes recount Thanksgiving visits across Kansas from Lawrence to Wichita. Families travel for games, hospitalities, and religious services. engagements, marriages, and upcoming moves are listed alongside social calls and visits by residents to relatives and friends in nearby towns.
Recipes describe buttered tarragon sauce to pour over hot broiled steak with beaten yolks thickened in a water bath. Also outlines an Empress Cake mixing butter sugar eggs flour baking powder lemon rind cherries and a two stage bake. The text notes substitutions for tarragon parsley chives or onion.
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