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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1903
Page
2
The page blends weather notes and market or labor updates with political and transportation tidbits. It mentions rain in eastern Kansas, Cuba's war debt, Britain Japan relations, Topeka Sunday theater limits, and labor trends in railroads. It highlights Rail executive Winchell's rise and local civic chatter on hymnal reform.
Government corn crops show improved condition over last year with expectations of a record yield. California orange production may be the largest in years as other crops also perform exceptionally. A Saline County farmer patents a wheat shocker, threatening local employment. The Kansas farmers' trust grows into Nebraska, while Cuba seeks 35 million for army distribution.
Report describes a recent airship trial in Parse as a complete success, noting absolute control throughout the trial and highlighting one of the smallest yet most reliable airables ever constructed. The text also promotes Toattter's Stomach Bitters as a proven remedy for various digestive ailments and includes miscellaneous quotes and anecdotes from period writings.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from multiple papers. Jests about family bosses and subdued moods mix with mock advertisements and playful lines about doctors, debaters, and fashion. Light literary snatches and cartoonish one-liners showcase early 20th century wit.
A Washington Star fragment quotes Tan listing self-approval and a bemused interviewer. The dialogue veers from public life to metaphysical musings, with stray jokes about Methuselah and ages, mingling political pretension and evasive responses as observers note the era’s oddities.
An article by Frank W. Hawthorne titled Feeding a Great City cites startling 1903 New York lemon imports of 72,356,340 pounds valued at 1,367,074 from Italy in six months. Oranges for 1902–03 totaled 24,412,424 pounds worth 411,207 with origins including the British West Indies, Italy, Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica and others.
A New Yorker quotes a New York Mail and Express reporter on the term dollar. The piece traces how the word spread from the Spanish milled dollar to early American usage and regional slang for coin values. It notes that by the late eighteenth century the silver coin had not yet fully replaced older terms and that local names varied by region.
Fragmentary OCR reads as Greenwich officials investigate a local project with unclear ties to a mysterious figure. Mention of American or foreign entities and a possible capture of a suspect surfaces, with dates and precise actions obscured by garbled text.
Fragmented text notes popular Chamberlain's Cough Remedy praised for curing coughs and preventing pneumonia in many readers. Mentions manufacturers Cheney & Co and widespread sale through pharmacists. Includes dialogue excerpts and unrelated ads about tonics and tonics’ claims.
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