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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1907
Page
3
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Kansas corn stands as the state’s monarch crop and key prosperity barometer. The article notes long term data showing corn’s greater value over wheat and other farm products, with multi-year figures: corn worth billions, often surpassing wheat, and supporting state wealth even from limited land.
Governor Hoeh removes portraits and Senator Plumb bust from the state house suite. items to join the Kansas State Historical Society collection amid overhauls. Some see sacrilege while others praise the relics as curious artifacts of territorial and state governance. The changes follow planned office improvements, with several portraits and the Plumb bust slated for archival placement.
Letter from W B Brunson of Dublin Ga praising Electric Bitters for his eighty three year old mother and other ailments. Claims strong appetite good sleep and general debility relief. Also markets Dean's Ointment for itching piles eczema and other skin conditions. Includes druggist contact and general humor.
An odd medical blurb extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for appendicitis caused by liver torpor and constipation. The ad claims they regulate the liver and establish regular bowels and lists a price of 250. at O P Barber & Son’s drug store.
The council struggles to secure an electric line as residents demand a liberal, hole free ordinance. Support grows for a decisive measure, with Mr. Moore and a Franchi financier tied to the project. The city needs the line and aims to pass a shaped ordinance.
Williams and Walker star in Bandanna Land at the Bowersock Opera House for a limited engagement starting Thursday October 24. The act is billed as a major Lawrence drawing show with acclaimed prior performances. The Kansas Lawyer October issue promotes the troupe and features lectures, music, and staging tied to the publication’s content.
Three months after bold claims of improving water service no progress appears. Mollie Tutt was arrested Saturday for fighting and fined one dollar plus costs by Judge Clark, a fine paid. Mrs. Hall had earlier the same fine for fighting.
A report outlines possible action by the Interstate Commerce Commission against rebates on Santa Fe routes and related traffic practices. Attorney efforts proceed, while California interests and Atchison Topeka Santa Fe ties figure in the inquiry. Separately, notices mention Dr. Pierce’s medicinal elixirs and mass mailings, plus a property transfer by George Morrow and family on Rhode Island Street.
Real estate ad lists several parcels near Vinland and Lawrence Kansas. One property 500 young apple trees with school nearby asks 1500 dollars. another 226 344 miles from Vinland, eight miles from Lawrence, 150 acres under cultivation, 65 acres grass, 18 acres timber, good improvements, never-failing spring, price 10000 dollars. Call GEO Brecheisen or J E R Endora Kansas for details.
Dr Sarah E Carrothers, graduate of American School of Osteopathy under founder A T Still, office 913 Mass St up stairs. Office hours 9 to 12 and 1 to 5. Anyone finding a wagon burr please leave it at The Bell Metcalf Implement Co.
Direct Action Gas Ranges are in more Lawrence homes than all other makes of gas ranges combined. ECKE'S ECONOMY STORE invites you to learn why as colder weather drives demand for hot dies, vaselines, cold creams and related goods. WOODWARD & CO. stand ready to supply your needs in this line.
A long readable account recalls Joe Dillon a familiar political figure in Finney County Kansas. It recounts his contests for county seats and the western Kansas political scene, noting Dillan's clashes with rivals and his influence in Garden City. The piece mentions Hartland and Lakin and references political shifts in the region during the state’s earlier years.
At the Topeka U B Ministers conference J W Cleaver was assigned to the Lecompton charge and J Lewis to Lawrence. The city council will meet this coming adjourned term.
A Western Rail signal plan will introduce a block system along the trolley line from Leave worth to Ki. It marks the first electric road in the area. Signals will operate on curves to improve car flow and speed through blocks.
O L Harding seeks to leave the country and will sell all personal effects at a section on Friday of this week. He lists desirable property for sale and invites interested buyers to attend.
Cadell Earl Shamburg recalls hard times with grasshoppers and toil in Kansas. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for relief from persistent coughing and breathing trouble, noting it took less than one bottle to cure him. The remedy, touted as safest for coughs and lung throat issues, is sold by O P Barber & Son with a 50 cent bottle and a free trial offer.
An article extols a disease sweeping the country and links sudden deaths to heart, pneumonia, kidney illness. It promotes Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure and cites an address in New York for more details, with scattered advice on health and parsimonious living.
First Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal Get. 1907 notice that on October 15 1907 the Probate Court of FE s County Kansas appointed and qualified as executors of the estate of Theo Poehler deceased. Executors named Kirchaoff Sr Smithmeyer Sr follow.
Mary D. Steele sues Olin and Susan Phemister and unknown heirs to quiet title to a tract in Douglas County Kansas part of the southeast quarter of section 20 township 13 south range 18 east along the Wakarusa River center. Respondents must answer by November 21, 1907 or judgment will be entered.
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