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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1916
Page
6
The listing describes a sale by TEATOPALAN La Phommis with owner WO Flory and clerk. Items include harnesses, a low wagon, box wagon, cultivator, doubletrees, mower, buggy harness, saddle, corn planter, piano, dining tables, beds, chairs, and a large stock of fodder and corn. Usual terms. Lonely on grounds.
A simple foldable music case is shown using a sturdy cardboard foundation wrapped in colored linen. It features side straps, elastic closures, and a decorative monogram, with the owner’s initials worked before covering the card base.
A chaotic listing outlines various property trades including a petato producer in Raw Hotton exchanging for income property in Lawrence. It mentions a University district room house for 4000 dollars with 500 cash and easy terms, an 100m modern residence also valued at 4000, a model house with 4 lots at 4500, 125 acres two miles from Norfolk Arkansas, 80 acres cultivated with 5 bearing orchard priced at 2000 with cash and terms, plus exchanges for Lawrence properties and income property in Greeley and nearby Lawrence lots.
A public sale will be held at the Lampton California Road premises on Tuesday October 10 beginning at daylight. The listing includes horses cattle hogs and dairy stock with two milking cows and several heifers. farm implements including wagons plows cultivators and harness. household furniture such as bedsteads tables chairs a Davenport and kitchen cabinetry. The owner is listed as Asher with a local clerk noted.
A fashion item recounts blouses with deep cane collars extending over the shoulders and fastening at the front armhole. Collars use two or three folds of organdie edged with ribbon or self trim. Cartridge pleats at waists shape sleeve fullness into a deep nuntlet cuff below the yokes, a growing fashion feature.
A fragment describes silk lace gloves with Chantilly lace insets matched to stockings in pastel and opera shades, packed in French boxes. It also notes Peruvian rural beliefs about crop risk and offerings to ensure harvests, with mentions of Mullo carvings and Bolivian markets via National Geographic. A snatch of dialogue from the Chiewzu Tribune mocks line length and drought conditions.
Auction details list cattle and horses to be sold northeast of Sides on Thursday October 12 1916 at Poama. Inventory includes 12 yearling cattle bred heifers holsteins durhams jersey red poll animals and foals. Several horses a brawn hearse and a Jersey cross heifer are described with ages and weights. Freshening cows and springers are noted with expected calving around March.
The article notes Hadrian’s Wall from Tyne to Solway and the Antonine approach from the Firth of Forth to the Clyde. It mentions repairs by Hadrian around 120 and Severus around 208, and that tourists can still see remnants of these Roman fortifications in England and Scotland, mostly the southern wall with foundations largely intact.
A public note from Atlantic discusses annual graduation time music programs and how children learn music lessons to perform pieces for their families. It argues that men in particular view singing as effeminate or unmasculine, suggesting music should be embraced as a form of salvation rather than mere entertainment.
A fragmentary reminiscence questions what a child named Maud might become as she grows up. The text hints at desires to walk and ask questions, framed in a nostalgic tone about future identity and duties.
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