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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal notes include editorial chatter about European affairs and local politics, with mentions of Jeter, Atwood, Julia Grassfield, Henry Allen, and campaign fund calls. It discusses a Topeka Republican drive, proposals before the Missouri Facility, and reflections on Taft, Bristow, and local leaders like Latt and Tate’s daughter.
Notices announce meetings of Republicans in multiple towns including Winchesters Winchester A Crane Nortonville Dolly Daween Rock Creek Wrady Williamstown Conwell Vand Cothwell McLanith Bailey Valley Falls Pekulunsa and others with dates in late February to early December.
Republicans held a meeting at Willow Springs Saturday night with a threat of rain不足 crowd but an excellent turnout. Major A M Harvey of Topeka was the principal speaker while Democrats met at High Prairie in a successful gathering. A Masonic lodge supper and oyster service were noted at The Fairfax in Lawrence and Budora with speeches by local officials.
City council conducts an adjourned session to consider two electric line franchises. The ordinances have been reviewed by the committee and are expected to pass as recommended, with safeguards for city interests considered adequate.
A Georgia farmer boasts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured two severe sores and would mortgage the farm to obtain it. Barber & Son’s drug store sells it for 25c. The page also advertises Duan’s Regulats for constipation and various local services and jokes about clerical humor.
The November Metropolitan Magazine features John K. Winchell on national campaign dynamics and Charles J. Cochrane on rapid global progress. It includes Bran der Matthews on travel, diverse essays on exercise and diet, and short stories by Cholmondeley, E Vernede, Walworth Brown, Lucy Bran, and others.
Journal Nutting Party riders with a hay rack carry children to the Nutt farm for a day of walnut gathering. Children filled sacks and enjoyed a mothers prepared lunch then some members reached the hilltop overlook while others rested at Mrs Irwin s farm. All returned happy and grateful for the day and the Brady family’s hospitality.
W. J. Stibbs returns home after a weekend and reports his campaign is in excellent shape with about twenty calls each evening until election. He plans to be in town the night before voting and says laboring men are his strongest audience at the laboring centers.
A humorous tale centers on a clever dog named Ted who mimics human chatter and steals items. The narrator notes the dog's keen intelligence and recalls a scene where Ted retrieves and hides objects, prompting others to discuss the creature's unusually sentient behavior.
A tortured obituary style fragment from Eudora mentions Peter Fry of Woodruff Pa and a judge in Waynesburg. It notes doctors declaring a patient beyond cure after two years of treatment, a barbs about legal rites and appeals, and a testimonial for Ima Foley's Kidney Cure. The text references Barber & Son and local merchants selling remedies. The piece also advertises Kodol for indigestion with a price and store.
The passage discusses many boys and girls in country and city life driven by poverty to seek work, facing pleading for encouagement in youth and the drift toward becoming hoboes. It portrays fear of work and the pull of desperate choices in poor communities.
Real estate transfers list several warranty deeds from 1907 through 1908 across Douglas and Lawrence counties. Entries name grantors and grantees including A T Jeffrey, C E Stevens, John Herman and Grace Butler UW, William J Lies, and Edmond Weatherby. Properties referenced include blocks and lots on High Street Baldwin Lane Place and West Lawrence, with dates in May October September.
The page contains medical ads toutting Hall's Catarrh Cure for deafness due to inflammation of the Eustachian tube. It also pitches Orino Laxative Syrup, Thomas oil, Kodol digestion aids, and local business notices for Byron Jones, Remington Boarding House move, Miss Jessie Arter painting, and Eliot & Thns mass-street listings. The fragmentary text presents a collage of 19th or early 20th century patent medicines and local ads.
A Chicago Tribune note surveys candidates for the longest English word with examples such as fantidisestablishmentarianism and disintellectualization, then shifts to the craze for Elizabethan ruffs as fashion returns, pondering adoption and variations with tongue in cheek. The piece references historic terms, sobriety tests, and a playful street scene.
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