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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1931
Page
8
City library shelves welcome practical volumes from art histories to textiles and pottery, with guides on lawn care, master artworks, and biographies. A volume compiling sketches by Dilly Tante for librarians highlights accessible short bios, while the group notes usefulness for club women and students.
The Women s Home Missionary Society of the First Methodist church hosts the eighteenth annual state meeting in Lawrence on Oct 22 and 23 with tea, a young people s banquet, and a Friday motor trip to the university and Haskell Institute. Delegates register under Mrs. W B Wilcox. speakers include Dr Hunt Rev E Price and Mrs Weatherby with Miss Hobbs. Kappa Phi and Haskell students join the symposium after the banquet. Conference officers listed with titles and towns.
Twenty one years in business at the same location marks the anniversary of Miss Caroline Walters who entered the store and opened a sale yesterday. The shop has housed a women’s wearing apparel business since 1859 with a long record.
Photographs recount Mrs. M. J. E. Gardner opening a Lawrence millinery in 1859 later sold to Mrs. E. E. Mendenhall and finally to Afiss Wolters from Nokomis Illinois in 1910. The store modernized four years earlier and expanded its stock to include coats dresses hosiery lingerie and more, reflecting shifts from winged hats to plainer styles as patrons grew.
Pinckney school introduces a new curriculum element titled Primary Children in which students study life of the Red Man. The program expands diversity topics and local Indigenous history within standard social studies units.
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