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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1903
Page
3
Train timetable fragment lists several trains with numbers and destinations including Kansas City, Topeka, Lawrence, and Craterworth. Services include express and passenger trains daily or with Sunday exceptions, showing departure and service patterns across multiple routes and stations.
Notice to subscribers about prepayment and delivery timing. It states carriers have authority to collect and that papers must be paid in advance. It also notes no church rate unless prepaid and aims to improve regular delivery by ensuring subscribers receive papers by 6 o clock each evening.
A description extols gas stove valves for instant fuel, yielding slow to quick flames by small turns. It notes turning fully can extinguish the flame, claiming ease and convenience for users.
A Shanghai dispatch describes brutal corporal punishment of Chinese prisoners and a rare case of a mother strangling her son over family disgrace. The article notes the mixed court hai and describes bamboo blows, followed by a disturbing account of a widow killing her son to avoid disgrace.
Overworked anxiety patient Allen, age unspecified, at Monmouth Memorial Hospital, has slept poorly for weeks. Doctors treat him with electricity while noting no improvement. Remedies flood in from across the country, including mail cures and dubious ointments, as clinicians reassess his ailment.
The 1903 fiscal year set a record in U S Russia trade with exports totaling 17 806 212 and imports rising sharply, surpassing all prior years. Combined trade value exceeded any previous year, reflecting strong growth in both directions despite earlier declines and market uncertainties.
A fragmented profile of Mohammed Abdileh known as the Mad Mullah of Somaliland. It traces his rise from poverty to wealth through religious authority, his control over tribes, the Somaliland campaign, and rumors of an English officer plotting revenge during his leadership.
An essay urged strict time discipline in daily work, praising punctuality as both virtue and social strength. It also recounted two London brain surgery cases that altered behavior, one removing skull pressure and another curing theft tendency, then noted FDA style ads for railroad fares and a ticket agent contact.
Weather accelerates decay of the Fifteenth Street front columns at the U S Treasury, with Dumfries sandstone crumbling and no funding yet from Congress for preservation. A Baltimore company won a bid to test a preservative on one column as experts warn the structure could be gone in 10 to 15 years. Parraffin wax has been suggested as another remedy.
The Lincoln car that carried Abraham Lincoln’s remains to Springfield and later toured railroad yards has been sold by the Union Pacific to private parties for display at the St. Louis exposition. Built in 1804 at Alexandria VA, the armor-plated vehicle traveled with the Union Pacific for years. Paris now boasts a young art prodigy Pierre Grienard, a ten year old painter who creates from memory. A health note recommends eating slowly and using Stomach and Liver Tablets to aid digestion.
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