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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1908
Page
3
A ragged mix of business notes from Lawrence features the Lawrence Transfer Co with packing and moving services, a skating rink reminder, and local trades like livery, carriage painting, and drummage. Advertisements boast pickles under Kansas Pure Food law, beverages, embroideries, osteopathy, and Wit's Kidney pills, plus cider and rubber tires.
A rambling defense of inventors is followed by sketches of simple time saving devices. A window pane fastener, an envelope size for mail, and a quick repair tool are pitched as easy, inexpensive, reliable ways to save labor and money, with the promise of riches for clever tinkerers.
A fragmented report portrays a Lawrence man involved in horse trading with insinuations of deception. It notes suspicious activity, claims of loaded horses, and a local dealer allegedly paying a man 340 plus another horse to seal a trade amid the town’s horse dealing underworld.
Readable fragments hint at a legal or crime motion in Latw rence with mentions of a hearse, fees, a horse, and a person named Hasdiel. Details are garbled and uncertain, but the text references dates, payments, and a possible custody or event around a trial or incident.
Amid heavy rain and poor visibility H. J. Allen addressed a sizable crowd in Wichita while Maunith and others observed the event. Attendees applauded the candidate’s refutation of opponents and urged Republican unity to back the party ticket.
The November issue marks the Seven Hundredth number of the Woman's Home Companion with 88 pages of travel tales, home ownership articles, and fiction by Florence Morse Eastman and others. It also announces gifts of Taft pictures through the Republican League and promotes Foley's remedies for coughs.
A jumble of clipped speech and slang ends with the line that the wire had melted. The scene features a tense, surreal radio exchange between characters and a horse editor, with derailed conversation and fading urgency as technical failure interrupts dialogue. The fragment hints at a broader plot or dialogue about a “Low vate fovlin” and a planned meeting in town.
Central Committee does not approve of attacks on Mr. Stubbs. Members condemn the personal barbs, pledge a clean campaign on decency and urgency, and urge voters toward better government. Stubbs, a local home man, is respected by all.
The storm may be over after five days of rain that disrupted Sunday, kept conditions unsettled, but this morning the clouds seemed to break. The weather’s flood of rain broke October records, saturating ground and delaying wheat sowing for now, with election preparations continuing.
This week features last campaign push events as candidates prepare for next Monday nights finale in the opera house. Charles F. Scott heads to the opera house Friday with a strong speech drawn from his congress work. Local meetings continue despite weather, with Republican state senate hopeful touring Jefferson county venues including Rock Creek Onokie Williamstown Valley Falls and OcKkaloosa through Saturday.
The article reviews Bryan's anti gold standard stance, its political impact since 1896, and the shift after Congress enacted the gold standard in 1900. It presents rising deposits across banking classes, stronger foreign trade, and a doubling of monetary circulation, arguing the nation’s wealth expanded as money supply grew. It cites figures for deposits, savers, exports, and circulation, and closes with a mixed blend of opinion and public notices.
A fragmented ad style instruction describes making a pineapple gelatin dessert. It lists dissolving Victorex Pineapple Gelatin in hot water, adding cold water and liquor from pineapple, then stirring in grated pineapple, cream, and egg whites before chilling or freezing. The text repeats garbled phrases about children and grocers.
Examination schedule set for October with tests in Geography Penitational Literature United States Physics and History. A narrative ad mentions Kodol for indigestion and includes a physician testimonial about a cure after multiple doctors failed, with a consumer endorsement by Barber and Son.
The ad copy promotes Dr King s New Discovery as a cure for severe coughs and consumptive symptoms, touting testimonials from Mrs Adan L Croom of Vaughan Mississippi and promising trials and a $100 reward for catarrh related deafness cures. It also markets Kadol digestive aid and various goods from Barber Sons Abe Wolfson and others.
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