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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
2
Tax sale begins September 6 and local births, marriages, and deaths fill community notices. Names include Mr and Mrs John Woodhall, Prof. Wells, judge Norton, and Capt. Meek among others, with updates on real estate, schools, and a grand lawn fete at Mr Steinberg’s residence.
A man named Jerry, about 38, was found dead early Tuesday morning in Simpeon Halliater area, his body hanging after leaving home the previous night. A coroner ruled death by suicide, with intoxication suspected. The issue also covers an extensive occupation tax ordinance with varied rates for banks, telegraph firms, hotels, auctioneers, and many other trades, plus a note that Monday night’s council session approved a second reading and adjourned to this evening for final action.
A dealer advertises choicest Pure and Unadulterated Liquors and Wines for medicinal and family use in gallons kegs and barrels sold wholesale to private families. Goods shipped to any part of the country by freight or express with careful packing and warranted as represented.
A compiled list of residents and residents linked by town and state, including Lawrence, Baldwin, Media, Topeka, Peoria, and Belvoir. Names appear with multiple spellings and affiliations to towns such as Twin Mounds Clinton Vinland and Clearfield. The collection includes women and men, with many repeating hometowns. it reads like a community roll or directory from the period.
F W Barteldes of F Barteldes & Co notes the past year was the dryest in Kansas yet reports fair business. Turnip seed sales reached about three tons, timothy and bluegrass crops were cut short by dryness, 2000 bushels Timothy and 6000 bushels bluegrass bought from new crop. Alfalfa sown widely in the West, flax yields about 12 to 16 bushels per acre, with fifty to sixty thousand bushels marketed in town. Next year expect more sowing and westward spread of varieties.
The grand track and improved course with fast running are highlighted by magnificent purses and liberal, enterprising management. The Bismarck Fair gathers top turf events praised for pace, prizes, and regional leadership.
A long excerpt urges regulation of proprietary medicines and the training of physicians. Gr G G Green of Woodbury NJ backs oversight to curb unqualified practitioners and unsafe nostrums. The piece cites Boschee's German Syrup and Green's August Flower as products needing protection, copied from the Chicago Mail Aug 3 87. It ends with a prompt about entries for the Bismarck Fair.
The University of Hansen showcases growth across departments with thirty instructors and expanded programs in Civil and Electrical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Natural History. It details reorganized Art, growing School of Pharmacy, first year Medicine, Music, and a two year Law LL B program setting a broad collegiate scope. Fall term begins September 7 with admissions by diploma for high school graduates and preparatory classes for language and core subjects.
Siks Worth Showing announces sale of new silk stock with desirable shades. The house offers silk dresses and promises price and quality fit for every customer. A guarantee of yard for yard replacement if unsatisfactory is provided by GEO. INNES.
Fragmentary items note the great Bismarck Fair and scattered references to Woolford and Barber Bros. Gasoline stores in Lawrence, Kansas. Sarah Balea appointed administrator of the estate of Solomon Bales in probate court last week.
The notice proclaims rapid movement of goods and a large stock for the fall trade at A. D. Weaver's. It emphasizes heavy purchases and low prices, inviting customers to come and see what can be offered and sold in the same favorable manner.
The Lawrence Business College and Academy of English and Classics invites neighbors to refer youths for business training, shorthand, typing, academic education, music or art courses. Subscribers to a monthly Educational Journal will be paid for referrals. Also notice that Great Bis marck Fair Races entries close at 11 pm August 26.
Order No 3 announces sale of eighteen pieces of colored Henriettas at 65 cents. Compare prices with other houses charging 85 and 90 cents. Emphasizes customer savings and a lighthearted note as GEO INNES fronts the battle.
A Nichols, Shepard & Co. Threader Engine and Separator in good order is offered. Inquire of Justus Hows about the item priced at 49.3 dollars. Also offered, a family ticket to the Bismarck Fair valid daily with vehicle for 3 dollars.
The speaker says they held twenty thousand dollars in Quantrell Raid scrips and sold the entire lot for ninety five cents on the dollar. They reserve right to raise to thirty thousand dollars if offered within ten days, warning prices may revert to eighty to ninety cents thereafter.
We have never bought so many yarns this season and never sold them so cheap. We can supply any yarn you want in Germantown or Saxony and any others. Wool prices have risen but we continue selling at low prices.
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