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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1922
Page
7
The article notes a September drop in oats quality and a government loss offset by anticipation of food advances as deliveries are delayed due to shortages. It references crops, supply concerns, and plans to address the shortfall amid harvest activity and field reports.
Charles Steele and Lawrence visitors, Fred Kampschroder and son Louis, with many neighbors, attend church, funerals, and district events. The community gathers for birthdays, Sunday school conventions in Clinton, and a Christian Endeavor party at Murphy home. Regular visits to family homes, schooling plans, and Royal Neighbors assembly noted.
Mrs. Harve Fager led a motor trip to Ottawa Monday afternoon for the centropolistowna sale at Elmer Lutz and Leo Simon attended. A large group including Rev Frances Dyery and multiple Deskins and Flors enjoyed refreshments and socializing. Several local families, neighbors, and visitors from Michigan and Kansas joined events and visits around the Harve Fager home and nearby farms.
Local residents and visitors share a busy week with family gatherings, school opening notes, cousins in Kansas and Oklahoma, and reports of neighbors and relatives visiting, moving between Belleview, Lawrence, Burdett, North Lawrence, and nearby towns. Names include Whaley, Ott, Holmes, Mansford, Forsythe, Von Gunten, Harbour, Strobel, Sowers, and others in holiday-like county chatter. The column mentions 38 pupils at Belleview School and ongoing family visits across several small Kansas towns.
A fragmentary notice describes the fair preparations underway next week with a meeting today to finalize arrangements. Officials including Lane, secretary, announced progress and additional events for attendees. Also listed are carnival plans, shows, and visiting participants from Winfield, plus medical notes about Dr. Owen and other staff.
Miss Neile Johnson returns from Emporia with her freshman year at Baker University. The King’s Heralds plan a September meeting, and church groups prepare dinners, programs, and a basket lunch. Local residents attend Ottawa fair, visit Fort Scott, and Bishop Quayle reports on improvements around Baldwin. An Ottawa bridge accident affects residents, and town leaders vote on school bulletins funding.
Sonia the Cigarette Girl of Greenwich Village, a Bohemian fixture in the Latin Quarter, fell ill with a mysterious heart condition. After weeks in hospital and isolation from friends, doctors now say she has won the fight and will soon be discharged, her Village fame undimmed by illness.
Sonia, versatile and driven, runs a village shop near Provincetown after Boston travel and a Bohemian courtship. She laments locals never visit, recalls adding erudite books and batiks to cigarettes, and fears loss of homeland while police respond to a disrupted dance and a family search. Cyclone Miller shot near Omaha. W G Cline held. Car of Richmond Jump cans on track.
An old advertisement fragment recounts a woman's narrative of illness and recovery after using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The piece promotes the product's benefits for restoring health, vigor, and vitality, urging readers to obtain tablets from local drug stores.
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