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Halloween celebration options available for students
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
BY NICOLAS ROESLER
nroesler@kansan.com
Sam Callan has witnessed Halloween in Lawrence his whole life. He's seen the parties. He's seen the beer. He's gotten dressed up, and he's gone trick-or-treating. Now a freshman at the University of Kansas, he works at Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E. Sixth St., and is preparing for its annual Halloween costume contest.
Halloween weekend is full of choices for those costume-crazed students who are looking for a good time. Some are long-standing traditions, while others try to break out of the mold.
"The bars are always popular." Callan said.
Abe and Jake's Landing will host a costume contest Saturday. It has held a costume contest for 10 years, but this year it is giving out $4,000 in cash for the best costumes.
Ryan Lantz, manager of Abe and Jake's, said this year definitely
upped the ante concerning the amount of money being given out. There are four categories in Abe and Jake's costume contest: best group, best male costume, best female costume and the most creative costume. There will be one overall winner, who will receive $1,500.
The remaining $2,500 will be split up among the winners of the other three categories.
"It's one of the biggest events of the year," Lantz said.
Many students look for other places to spend their night. Jase Archer, a senior from Overbrook, said he never has trouble finding a house party to go to.
Archer is justified in thinking this. Lantz said that Abe and Jake's usually reaches capacity for the Halloween party.
One alternate option is the annual Mountain Dewds' Halloween party at 1115 Tennessee St. The Mountain Dewds have thrown
"I think a lot of people get tired of the whole'drinking is a part of college culture'idea."
"I don't like going to the bars because they are always too packed," Archer said.
ADAM LAURIDSEN
Senior
a non-alce holic dance party for eight years. Adam Lauridsen, a senior from Lawrence, is a member of the house and said his house's party is a counterculture effort.
"I think a lot of people get tired of the whole 'drinking is a part of college culture' idea," Lauridsen said.
The residents do not allow alcohol inside the house but allow people who have been drinking to go in and dance. Lauridsen said
they usually get between 300 to 500 guests each year.
However, this year Halloween falls on Sunday, which isn't the ideal day to bring a crowd into a bar or a house party. Many bars, such as Abe and Jake's and The Cave at The Oread Hotel, 1200 Oread Ave., are holding their events on Saturday. The Cave is having a $500 cash prize for its costume contest.
One bar is not worried about a crowd showing up for some fun on Sunday. The Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St., has held a Halloween party and costume contest for more than 15 years. Manager Chris Neverve hopes the tradition will overpower an off day for the bar.
"We're busy Saturday night anyway," he said. "We're trying to make Sunday the same."
The Red Lyon Tavern will also have a prize of about $100.
Edited by Lisa Curran
HALLOWEEN WEEKEND EVENTS
**WHAT:** Fashion Monsters 4: Nightmare on Mass St.
Costume fashion show
**WHERE:** Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St.
**WHEN:** Friday, Oct. 29, 9 p.m.
WHAT: Halloween Party and Costume contest
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 30, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.
COST: $1,500 1st place cash prize
**WHAT:** Halloween Costume Contest
**WHERE:** The Cave at The Oread, 1200 Oread Ave.
**WHEN:** Saturday, Oct. 30, 9 p.m.
**COST:** $500 first place cash prize
WHAT: Halloween Dance Party
WHERE: Mountain Dewd's House, 1115 Tennessee St.
WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
WHAT: Halloween Party and Costume Contest
WHERE: Red Lyon Tavern, 944 Massachusetts St.
WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
HISTORY
Museum x-rays Civil War dolls for traces of medicine
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RICHMOND, Va. — Two Civil War-era dolls thought to have been used to smuggle medicine past Union blockades were X-rayed Wednesday, disclosing hollowed papier-mache heads that once could have contained quinine or morphine for wounded or malaria-streken Confederate troops.
The 150-year-old dolls, dubbed Nina and Lucy Ann, were likely packed with the drugs and shipped from Europe in the hope that Union troops would not inspect toys when looking for contraband, a museum official said.
Nina and Lucy Ann were taken to VCU Medical Center from their home next door, The Museum of the Confederacy, to see if the contours inside their craniums and upper bodies were roomy enough to carry the medicines.
The conclusion: yes.
The next step could be forensic testing for any traces of the drugs.
The dolls were given to the museum by donors who said they were used to smuggle medicine past Northern blockades to Southern troops.
Nina was donated to the museum in 1923 by the children of Gen. James Patton Anderson, who commanded the Tennessee Army of the Confederacy. She has red felt boots.
Lucy Ann, attired in a salmon-colored cape and dress, was given to the museum in 1976 by an anonymous donor. She is adorned with a coral necklace.
Lucy Ann has an open gash on the rear of her bonneted head, possibly made when its contents were emptied. Nina was likely disassembled then stitched back together.
Museum officials believe the dolls were in fact used for smuggling in the Civil War.
"In all of the research that I have been able to do, these are the only two confirmed smuggling dolls that I've been able to find," said Catherine M. Wright, collections manager at the museum. The X-rays were conducted as part of the museum's continuing research of its vast Confederate holdings, believed to be the largest in the U.S.
"People have been so interested in children's toys and dolls from the Civil War in general," she said. "The smuggling aspect is very captivating."
Wright carried the dolls, each 2 to 3 feet long, in a box to the radiology department of the hospital.
Registered technologist Lanea Bare gently placed each doll on the X-ray table, taking images of each facing up, then on their sides. Ghostly images were then displayed on a screen in the busy radiology department, drawing stares and wise cracks from passing doctors and technicians as the dolls lay neatly back in their box.
"Looking here, this looks like
a cavity in the head and upper chest," said Dr. Ann S. Fulcher, pointing to Nina's image on the screen. "That's probably where the majority of the goods, the medicine, was put"
Confederacy.
One theory is that they were purchased in Europe, then shipped to a Southern port with the medicines stuffed in their heads to avoid detection by the North's blockade of Southern ports.
"The idea behind the smuggling dolls is that even if a ship was boarded and searched, it was unlikely that they were going to do such a thorough search that they would find this medication hidden inside of dolls," Wright said.
The blockade from 1861 until 1865 was intended to thwart the delivery of arms, soldiers and supplies such as medicine to the South. Rhett Butler, the fictional rogue in Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," was a blockade runner.
A well-known illustration from the period shows a woman tying bundles of medication under her hoop dress for delivery to Confederate troops, Wright said.
"People have been so interested in children's toys and dolls from the Civil War in general."
Once the dolls reached a port,
the powdered quinine would
CATHERINE M. WRIGHT Collections manager
The museum knows little about the dolls' silent service to the
The hospital visit was free-of charge.
The dolls' heads and shoulders are stitched to the bodies, which are stuffed with wool or cotton. Safety pins used to secure their clothing, including undergarments, were visible in the X-ravs.
quite would be pressed into pills for Sout her n troops, Wright said.
Malaria was widespread among Union and Confederate troops. Some 900,000 Union troops contracted malaria during the war, leaving 4,700 dead, according to the "Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War."
Statistics for Southern troops were not compiled but malaria was probably more widespread, said Robert Krick, park historian at the Richmond National Battlefield Park.
Two doll, Nina and Lucy Ann, were X-Rayed to see if they contained medicine. The dolls may have been used to shin drugs to conferder soldiers.
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FRIDAY
KU School of Music OCT. 29 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
HALLOWEEN BASH
KU Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert and Costume Contest
6:30PM
Community-wide costume contest - Led Center's Seymour Gallery. Categories include: Youth, Collegiate and Adult. Baby Jay to help judge contest!
7:30PM
The KU Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert - Lied Center Auditorium
Featuring a variety of spooky orchestral treats!
Tickets:$7/general admission • $5/students & seniors
Purchase tickets by calling or visiting the Lied Box Office, 785-864-2787
(also available the night of the concert.)
The winners of the costume contest will be announced during the orchestra concert.
This event sponsored by: The Eldridge and Oread Hotels and the KU Bookstore
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