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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1906
Page
4
Fragmentary report hints at a wind shift and weather changes toward a northerly pattern by Sunday. No clear details on location, time, or sources. Further readable facts are limited in the fragment.
Regents of the University of Kansas invite sealed proposals for heating and plumbing at the University Medical Laboratory in Rosedale Kansas. Bids due 11 a m October 23 1906. Plans by June F Stanton state architect. Bid security 3 percent. Eight hour law compliance required. Sealed bids marked per instructions.
The Review club studied Longfellow with Mia Hertz leading. Readings included Evangeline and other pieces. guests attended hosted by Mrs Levett and others. Friends in Council met with Mrs Metcalf discussing relations with France during the Revolution, with Miss Leary presenting a paper. Ventura, Ladies Literary League, and Zodiac and Ingleside clubs held meetings with papers on history, literature, and George Cable, plus a talk by Prof Skillon. West Side Study Club discussed Washington, with biographies and sketches. Ingleside and other groups shared readings and book reviews, including The Call of the Wild.
An explosion in a Lawrence barn while C. L. Edwards cooked supper on a gasoline stove caused fire that burned the horse Bonner, and Edwards suffered burns to hands and face. He battled flames to save the horse, then lay up for several days. The incident occurred amid a day of festivities with the trained horse present nearby.
A notice urges using a vacant lot to build a rental house funded by Atlas loans with 50 percent financing. The offer shadows a loan option via the Second floor National Bank Building and calls for rent income to repay.
Skip cure for itch or any skip dis pate. This is a preparation we sell on strict guarantees and if not gratis factory money will be refunded. O P Barber & Son Camera and kadak supplied at Smith’s newspaper Try F A Keosett & Co for tin work. Host of materials and workmanship guaranteed, and you will be surprised at the low charge. Leave orders for winter apples with F 8 Farley, 1 lui Massachusetts Street, Home phone 1%, Bell 155. Varieties: Gano Wingsap and York lopenal-A Carpenter Lox Si, Wb No i.
The notice enumerates services at First Church of Carras Solsattat and a dozen other congregations including Lutheran United Presbyterian and Pilgrim Congregation. It notes Sunday school times prayer meetings matins and sermons by various pastors with invitations to all. It mentions schooling for youth and a political talk by McWilliams at a local gathering.
Miss Ansia Wight hosted the Round Table club with papers on Charlemagne and deserts of Africa. Mrs F Beard discussed musical instruments. Augusta Flintom offers voice culture. Lawrence council adopted a paving project for Winthrop Street, ordering brick with sand filler, paid in ten annual installments.
A brief advertisement touts Woodward and Coa Special Cold Cream as an exceptionally gratifying preparation with an enviable reputation. It invites readers to ask neighbors and try a 5c box.
Advertisement notes well trained horses at the W J Francisco and Sons barn with rubber tired rigs. Emphasizes prompt telephone orders and quick responses to calls, inviting readers to give a trial.
The readable fragments describe sheep, flocks, and ownership shifts with stray mentions of Mary Austin and pieces titled Among the Stars. The writing mingles notes on grazing, caretakers, and literature references with numerous garbled phrases and apparent stray lines.
The Countess of Carlisle was selected as president today to succeed Lady Mory Someétest. Theme and botany papers at Wolf's.
Apples picked No 1 under Davis: 50a per bushel five bushel late 45c. Cooking apples 30c per bushel. Sweat cider 20c per gallon two for 35c Phillips Fruit Farm. Telephon 184g. Otto Raltz, longtime Williamson Cigar foreman, buys AT Whocell's cigarators at 227 Massachusetts Street and plans to meet old friends.
Market by Wire reports Kansas City trading in cattle hogs and grains. Prices show beef steers at 4.09 to 7.30, stockers and feeders 2.50 to 4.59, cows and heifers around 1.0 to 6.0, hogs around 36.55, and mixed grain quotes including wheat and corn with May and December futures.
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