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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1887
Page
7
The bill to legalize pool selling at Monmouth Park has become law after the New Jersey Governor failed to sign or veto within the allotted time. The report covers related political and administrative notes, including wartime department inquiries and congressional developments.
Long digest of global notes including legislative adjournment in Texas Nebraska and Ireland. Reports on Indian land allotment, British Irish policy shifts, Mexican Congress, U S prosecutions, court decisions, labor strikes, fires, shipwrecks, and notable deaths with multiple named persons and places across continents.
In Topeka the Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad new incorporation aims to run a line from near the Kansas state line southeast of Paola northwest through Paola and Lawrence into several counties. Kansas culture and railroad officials adjust posts, appointments, and post office classes as major lines expand across Kansas and Nebraska.
News notes report the death of Caroline Lorillard Wolfe in New York aged sixty with a $20 million+ estate. Other items include Moscow editor Katkoff receiving dispatches, a vessel outbreak of smallpox near San Francisco, a two mast schooner loss off Nantucket likely with drownings, and tax or legal updates from the Czara scheme and U S Supreme Court on banking taxes. Also noted are fires in March, a hydrophobic death in Chicago, timber policy in Montana, anarchist Johann Most, Illinois bribery concerns, a De Soto strike suspension, and shifting governorships in Corea and Texas politics.
St Louis reports mixed grain and provisions with butter steady to firm and pork and lard fluctuating. Cattle and hog prices edge higher, while flour and oats show limited movement across Chicago and New York markets. Prices cited include pork mess around 17.00 to 20.75, lard near 7.40 to 7.55, and beef and lamb notes across regions.
A collage of sentimental verses recounts farewells over overcoats a baby's gaze and a first kiss. It blends family moments with reflections on art and fame, ending with a memory of the first engagement and a parent's fading glow.
Scraps reflect fashion and hypocrisy among New York's elite with quips about renaming society figures and public morals. Also includes odd nonfiction tips on silk renovation, library sizes, pork feeding, and canned soups, then a garbled closing line.
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