Sam McCurdy’s Gro to Farmers Call
Sam McCurdy promotes his grocery route to farmers market buyers calling on customers to visit and place orders. Details are scant but imply local outreach and delivery service expansion.
30 Apr 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1896
Page
1
Sam McCurdy promotes his grocery route to farmers market buyers calling on customers to visit and place orders. Details are scant but imply local outreach and delivery service expansion.
An offer to redeem a free ticket to receive one cabinet from each set, framed in fine materials. The deal promises premium finishing and high quality work, with pricing described as the finest but the exact costs not specified in the text.
A garbled notice promotes ticket sales via Mrs. Shane at the old home gallery near the river and Capt J. B. Shane at Ironclad on South Massachusetts Street. The fragment hints at a sale or event but lacks clear details.
A playful note offers a frame ticket for 35 cents or a free gratis option, inviting readers to decide which bargain fits best. The line hints at a promotion or humorous contest without detailing dates or organizers.
Local note reports mules from Lawrence gathering at Chris Epley’s Restaurant 126 ass St described as the town’s best lunch spot for a meal and rest break, with visitors urged to try the place.
A noted Italian criminologist Baron Garofalo spoke at the Roman College on criminality and education. He warned Italy suffers about 4,000 homicides yearly, far higher than France or Denmark, and linked to dueling, poverty, and weak religious instruction. The discussion included remarks in the Chicago Journal and Indianapolis Journal excerpts.
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City Illinois was told she had consumption with no hope. Two bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her and saved her life. Thos Eggera of 130 Florida Street San Francisco had a dreadful cold near consumption and was cured in two weeks after one bottle. He remains grateful for the remedy.
The camera enables discovery of stars invisible to the human eye. Photographic plates reveal faint and distant objects, surpassing direct sight. Long exposures record thousands of stars, with about 16 000 counted on a single plate and estimates of 100 000 000 stars across the sky.
A hunter recalls a six year otter along West Canada Creek that dodged traps and shots. The creature’s eyes altered the hunter, who believed the otter hypnotized him, preventing a shot as the otter watched with intense, humanlike gaze.
A richly stitched page fills with quotations on circulation claims for Lawrence Gazette in Rowell's directory, a long town vignette of Tom Jones and Mrs Robinson, and snippets from Detroit and New York papers. The piece blends humor and frontier morality with ads and stray jokes.
A Philadelphia Bulletin summary describes rare aristocratic prero gatives tied to loyalty and service. It notes Ireland’s Lord Kinsdale would guard his honor before the sovereign, the Duke of Tyrconnell’s nonroyal royal livery right, the Spanish dukedom’s Epiphany wardrobe gift, and Espinosa natives guarding Madrid’s palace slumber with vigilant monteres de Espinosa.
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