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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1905
Page
4
After a day of oppressive heat a storm formed in the southern skies last evening. Lightning and thunder followed as clouds darkened and rain began around 10 o'clock. The heavy atmospheric disturbance altered the previously uncomfortable conditions, though the rain failed to settle dust. A stiff northwest breeze cooled the morning air.
An advertisement promotes the Wilder homestead on Windsmill heights offering a large brick house, substantial stable, twenty acres with half in fruit trees, and outbuildings. It notes two years of neglect but suggests a quick cleanup will restore its desirability and invites inquiries to QO. E. Learnard.
The original distinct ive floor paint is Sen ours and is promoted as the best made today. Woodward & Co have received a full stock of it and claim it is cheap and durable. Experience commends its value.
Local notices promote a Labor Day excursion to Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth with train times, ticket outlets, and passenger amenities. Multiple ads announce school examinations and openings, a furnace inspection offer, and various local services from laundry to coal, insurance, saddlery, and shoe repair.
Monday observances mark a local holiday in Lawrence with Tabor day ex cursions to Leavenworth and Kansas City. Banks post office and county offices will have holiday hours, laboring classes suspend work while stores operate as usual. Fraternal Aid excursion to Leavenworth costs a dollar. F H Bennett Co advertises thirty dasa stove and scope bargains. J F Strang offers fresh country cutter and eggs at 725 Massachusetts Street.
Griffin invites customers to order coal early to avoid the winter rush. The ad promotes low prices and compares socks and prices with other vendors, highlighting expertise in jewelry and pricing. Indicates contact via phone and stresses confidence in getting right prices.
A reader lists prices for pants and suits at least 350 and 912.50 respectively with a street address and proprietor. Other notes mention Fraternal Riders outing, Santa Fe depot train start, two stove lines stolen then recovered, Wiedemann at University studio for Misses beginning Friday, household goods sale at New Hampshire street 773, and free eye exam by Rh Gustafson a Leavenworth excursion.
The Journal reviews Hurry Up Yost’s Football for Player and Spectator, a book by the Kansas, California, and Michigan coach. Published by University Publishing Co. at Ann Arbor, it features over eighty full page illustrations, many from photos, plus diagrams and step by step plays.
Amusements note the play Why Worcen Sin by Will Murphey praised for its vitality and melodramatic appeal. Haversock Opera House hosts the performance with Labor Day excursion to Leavenworth and a Monday return, featuring promotions and a round trip ticket price of one dollar.
One year old Marguerite Augusta White, child of Mr and Mrs Simon R K White, died at 6 am at her grandparents Elm Street home after a six week fever. Funeral from Colled Hrathero church tomorrow at 2 pm, burial Oak Hill cemetery. Communion and baptism at First Methodist tomorrow morning. sermons by Dr Frank Lenig. Services and Sunday school details follow amid a schedule of local notices and business ads.
Indications point to larger attendances in the Kansas university journalism department this year. C M Barger outlines a practical program combining advisory talks and hands on editing to acquaint students with daily newspaper work and the duties of a modern office.
The 1864 issue highlights ads from Carne & Stevens Leavenworth, Wide Nour & Baker, and Kansay Mower among others, plus war correspondence and dispatches on troop movements. An editorial urges perseverance through gloom, praising liberty, justice, and sacrifice as foundations for future generations.
A large exodus departs tonight at 9 20 from Lawrence and Douglas counties for the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Denver Colorado. Special trains and reduced fares spur heavy travel as Allied patriotic groups plan meetings during the journey with many named travelers listed among the departing passengers.
City council committees on law and ordinances and streets and bridges will report favorably on the Stranger Valley electric railroad at the next Tuesday meeting. The ordinance, summarized earlier, grants rights for a local line but offers no guarantees on service or fare without amended safeguards. New York promoters are cited as merely seeking franchises. Lawrence should scrutinize the proposal to protect municipal interests.
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