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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1923
Page
4
A collage of commentary on roles and labels from janitors to custodians and liquor ambassadors, plus reflections on war, industry, marriage, tattoos, and the press. The piece notes shifting terms, political talk, domestic anecdotes, and a critique of newspapers prioritizing automobiles and sensational fights over other news.
The article surveys religious modernism and a call for stricter orthodoxy, rapid changes in Europe with Germany’s reparations talks and unrest, Japan's disasters, and the Pony Express brief asides. It notes Mme Olga Petrova returning from Paris and comments on commerce as a war trigger, with race and creed cited as root causes.
Dr Clarence Little, a Harvard 1910 graduate and Massachusetts native, is named president of the University of Maine. He previously led the Carlliffe Institute Long Island Station for Experimental Evolution and served as assistant dean at Harvard before wartime aviation duty and postwar work with the Carnegie Institute.
Bus lines intensify competition as Suburban State Line enters the Kansas City Topeka route with three daily trips via Lawrence. The company also runs services to Leavenworth, Lansing, and Lee's Summit. Also classified ad notes guaranteed sewing machine work and rental of sewing machines at 3 per month.
Tom Sims states the World Chess Congress is over without improving chess pies. He notes tok irpo has signed to box Wills and predicts a shortage of boxers driving a switch to wrestling. A top lightweight boxer from Chile is expected, and he warns to remember the heavies if temperatures fall.
A jumble of local notes from Lawrence covers police calls about prowlers and rock throwing, a Kansas City journalist visiting family, sports, and university arrivals. Items mention a dog bite on Elm Street, a Hong Kong typhoon, a burglar in London jail, a 40 000 pound plane, and upcoming road openings toward Kansas City. Seasonal chatter and light social tidbits mix with fashion, gas prices, and pool popularity at the Chamber of Commerce pool.
Mr and Mrs J C Miller and family and Mr and Mrs Ed Raible visited with CG Miller Sunday. Thirty five from the area attended Apnanoose revival. Many locals ill with rheumatism grippe and appendicitis. W C Sunday school reported sixty five in attendance and 284 in offerings. School openings, high school transitions, and local movements noted. Church quarterly council Sept 8 and revival Sept 16 with Rev H F Richards. Canning season offered blue plums and Elberta peaches at The Ideal Grocery 818 Mass. TM.
Ninth annual observance marks Lafayette Marne Day in Dunstable Massachusetts with town festivities and a 260th anniversary note. Jesse Pomeroy, noted Massachusetts prisoner, begins his 48th year of confinement in state prison. Veterans of the Thirty-fourth Division Sandstorm meet today in Minneapolis for their third annual reunion. Asheville North Carolina hosts the annual convention of the National Association of Secretaries of State. Los Angeles Chamber excursion to Mexico aims to broaden business and friendly ties. Eastern Western Southeastern and Canadian general committees Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen called to Chicago for wage movement talks.
The Christian Endeavor of Friends church presents the play Broken China at the church Thursday at 8 o’clock. Proceeds go to missionary work. Adults 25 cents, children 15 cents. Also notes a new business address 808 810 Mass and appeals to buy fountain pens at Rankin's Drug Store with Schaffer Lifetime and Conklin lines.
Judge John Q. Norton forwards Senator Jim Reed of Missouri praising his speech as 100 percent American. Reed argued for wage fairness, predicted an end to strikes and lockouts, and denounced the Ku Klux Klan while defending constitutional rights to work and worship.
Mrs F A McKone and Mrs Carl Phillips hosted guests in Lawrence area social rounds while neighbors plan haymaking and bus routes. The community discusses school, fair visits, church entertainments, birthday celebrations for Mrs Margaret McCleary, and upcoming weddings. Local families, farms, and roads are detailed with visits from Kansas City, Linwood, and Leavenworth connections.
Twin Mound residents welcome H H Cole family home from Omaha after weeks away. School delayed to Sept 10 for interior painting and remodeling. Local families and visitors from Cherryville Dover Stull and Lawrence noted with callers to homes and social visits.
Prof W B Downing will lead the church chorus with a try-out Saturday at 7 pm. All interested singers should meet Mr Downing. instruction and audition details will be provided. Also a separate classified notice lists office tables for sale from Eriksen Furniture Co. and a note about Bernice Anthracite on track with Spadra and Brig University Coal Co. contact numbers included.
The general committee for the Five Town picnic at Tonganoxie held a conference at noon today. Members present included Van Bruner Richard Wagstaff C. H. Daugherty T. J. Swetney and Mrs Blanche Cowden from Latyrence attended.
Davenport based Dr W C Coffee a noted eye ear nose throat specialist says he found a treatment that cured his catarrh deafness and head noises after years of suffering He reports similar success with others and offers a free 1 day supply to any reader who writes with name and address this notice states the physician’s long practice and public confidence.
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