Hunt's sales and local notices in Lawrence column
Numerous local ads offer ten percent reductions at Hunt's on parasols bunting silks and cook stoves, plus new cane invoices at F W Wieman's and Wm Rowe's jewelry repairs and store move. Personal items note visits by Blanchard Brooks Strauss Bullene and others, with a veterinary return of Dr Carl Schmidt to Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Blanchard
Wyandotte
P. R. Brooks
East
Jacob Strauss
Topeka
Max
S. Bullene
Easton
Sam Anderson
Kansas City
Laura Payne
Ora Good
F. A. Payne
Er. B. Good
J. E. Covel
Leavenworth
Lawrence Tribune
Judge Delong
Florence
Chicago
C. W. Bangs
Bangs
J. B. Hilliard
Jake and
Thomas McGee
New Mexico
Julia Ware
Columbus
Ohio
Mattie
Rudolph Sommers
Lawrence
Jacob House
Miss Woods
Miss Fanny
Herbert
George Beam
Colorado
Junction City
Carl Schmidt
Lawrence Daily Record item snippets and notices
A compilation of local notices, sales, ads and brief items from Lawrence. Includes subscription notices, discounts at Hunt's, lodging ads, product pitches, a first child birth, real estate and business updates, gas office move, church installations, a death, stock on sale at local stores, and a court fine for a family dispute. Names include Adam Roche, D F Bigelow, Palmer & Griffin, Geo Innes, Wm M Rowe, Willey & Savage, C Neumann, Alex Marks, M K Adams, Eben Baldwin, and others.
North Lawrence Notes Highlights Local Mowing and Trade
John Covey holds the contract for mowing Bismarck grove and clearing trash. Case & Co from Racine landed two carloads of threshing machines and engines. John Eldridge uses teams to haul stone to rebuild his burned livery and feed stable on Bridge street. A stolen horse was captured. sold for eight dollars. thief at large near Fall Leaf. Wheat prices drop due to rains. millers pay fifty cents per bushel though good wheat is worth eighty. W Clendenning buys eighty acre farm four miles northeast near Mud creek for thirty dollars per acre with drill and implements. Martin Gilmore, 11, son of W Gilmore, injured when wagon wheels ran over him north of Lawrence. Dr Simmons to treat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Covey
Bismarck Grove
Case & Co's
Racine
Wis
John Eldridge
Bridge Street
Fall Leaf
W. Clendenning
Russell County
A. R. Smith
Reno
Geo. Stephens
Lawrence
Martin Gilmore
W. Gilmore
Grant
Dr. Simmons
Hunt's Old Timers offers dry goods sale and cure claim
Twenty eight years ago B W Woodard introduced his celebrated Ague Cure among friends. It has for twenty eight years successfully cured chills and fever. Claiming to be the cheapest remedy and the best with a cold price of 50 cents per bottle restored. Safe certain and unequaled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Woodard
Hunt's Sale Offers 10 Percent Off for 30 Days
A local promotion announces a 10 percent discount at Hunt's lasting for 30 days. The deal runs across all departments, inviting shoppers to save on a wide range of items during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunt’s
Washington Post cadets camp life and apple crop report
The Washington Post cadets under Dr. H W Howe enjoyed camping near the river with hunting and boating. Apple prospects for the state appear about sixty seven percent of last year, with Douglas county possibly under forty percent. Captain Frank Wise leads the cadets who seek sixty members, meeting Mondays and Thursdays. A pocketbook containing 64 dollars was found near the California road and can be returned to T. W. Hadley’s livery stable for a reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Douglas County
Washington Post Cadeta
H. W. Howe
Frank Wise
Bert Gahan
Wm. Whitcomb
Lawrence
Brackett
California Road
T. W. Hadley
Lawrence House
Hoadley offers cash premiums for farm product exhibit
Real estate dealer D L Hoadley announces 150 in cash premiums for farm products displayed at the Western National fair in Bismarck. He urges farmers to contribute a top collection to advertise Kansas, with premiums listed in the fair catalogue. Also notes spectacles by W M Rowe and discounted saddles and harnesses from Apitz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Hoadley
Bismarck
Hoadley
Kansas
The
Fair Association
Lost horse from West Lawrence seeks return
A dark brown horse, twelve or thirteen years old, with a thin mane and tail and a round lump from a collar on the right shoulder is missing. It walks fast and was last shod behind but not in front. Liberal reward for its return to S. P. Spencer in West Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Lawrence
S. P. Spencer
Weather Summary for July 1883 at Lawrence Kansas
Observations by Prof. F. H. Snow show July mean 76.18 F, 9.17 below average, rainfall 7.23 inches, 2.94 inches above average. 90F+ on 17 days, 96.5F max on the 23rd, 56F min on the 9th. Wind dominated by SW and N directions, total distance 10,901 miles. Barometer averaged 29.086 inches, humidity 71.4 percent. July 7 months rainfall totals 29.03 inches, above 1882 and 15-year average.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Kansas
F. H. Snow
State University
S.W
N.E
Bicycle Race Purse Offered by Fair Association
The fair association offers a $100 purse for an amateur bicycle race to be run on Monday September 5. Local riders from Lawrence and nearby cities are praised as strong contenders. Also noted are prices for meat and a 10 percent discount at Hunt's with livestock and hog prices listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Fair Association
Lawrence
Local Market Prices from Lawrence August 15
Corrected list shows prices for wheat bran hay sorghum molasses eggs cheese honey and various fruits vegetables poultry and meats. Included are quantities like cwt bu and dozen with values in dollars and cents for items such as potatoes turnips Hubbard squash cabbage beets parsnips mutton lamb hogs beef and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbard
Divorce action filed in Douglas County Kansas
Mary A Goddard files petition in district court against Joseph N Goddard alleging habitual drunkenness gross neglect and seeks divorce and custody of three children. Defendant must answer by September 29 1883 or judgment by default granting divorce and custody. Also notice of administrator appointment in estate of Edmund S Chapman Douglas County Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A.goppage
Joserh N
Repdard
Mary A. Goddard
County of
Douglas
State of
Kansas
Joseph N. Goddard
Maintiff
W. W. Nevises
State of Kansas
Douglas County
Edmund S. Chapman
Donitea County
Edmund
Chapman
Sr. Chapman
Catharin
Herman Kroager
George Vonder Heide
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fazette
Hunt's
Bunting
Palmer & Griffin's
F. W. Wieman’s
W. M. Rowe
Willey & Savage
Massachusetts Street
Wm. Rowe
Bigelow’s
Neumann
F. B. Hutt
Gray’s River
Washington Territory
Knights Templar
Woodward
Blackberry
Kino
Adam Roche
Bismarck Fair
Lard and
Eldorado Engine Oils
D. F. ‘Bigelow’s
Palmer & Griffin
Methodist Church
Geo. Innes
D. F. Bigelow
May Lee
Virginia Smoking Tobacco
Mrs
Endsley Jones
Wm. M. Rowe’s
Wm. M. Rowe
John K. Rankin
Geo. Innes & Co
W. M. Rowe’s
Adam Oliver
Henry Street
Alex. Marks
Winthrop and
Louisiana Streets
M. K. Adams
Lawrence Gas, Coke & Coal Co
Massachusetts and
Warren Streets
Pacific Express Company
S. B. Barnitz
D. D
Wheeling
W. Va
English Lutheran Church
Mr. Maurer
Isaac Johnson
B. W. Woodward
Round Corner
Eben Baldwin
Wakarusa Township
Randolph & Randolph
Emporia
Baldwin
Eben Boaldwin
Edward Zimmerman
W. J. Kennedy
Robert Gardner
Gardner
John Gardner
Plains of Kansas
E. J. Taylor
Howrd
William Shaw
North Lawrence
Apitz
Ws. H. Pendleton
Kesting
Palmer & Griffin’s
Grand Ribbens Sale
Guo. Innes & Co
Serge DE Paris
Bonnet
Guinet
Stock Market
Lawrence Markets
Aetoatts
Fort Scott
Osage
Joe Seeeee
Ric Hill
Pittab
Scranton
Carbondale
Lawrence Business College
Institute of
Boor
Massachusetta Street
Topeka Road
M.E. Church
Japan
California
Hambleton
Massachusetts ST
University of Kansas
James Marvin
Lawrence, Kas
Linwood
Inwood, Leavenworth Co
Kans
U. P. Bay
A. Cruickshank
Scotland
Imp
Barem Vieter
Cruickshank
Golden Drops Hillhurst
Inapense Ezited Lawrence
Kas
William Cecil
James D. Yoko
Fourth Judicial District Court
Hangar
Court House
Gale
James D. Yoho
Elizabeth Yoho
James D Yoho
Asher
Jos
Calla
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