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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1883
Page
5
August items offer discounts at Hunt's and Palmer & Griffin's with notices on watches jewelry and canes. Personal notes report visitors, travels, and local engagements, including speeches and subscriptions. Arrival of merchants, medical and legal references, plus promotion of Steinberg’s clothing and men's furnishings highlight a bustling Lawrence scene.
The Gazette lists sales and services across Topeka with rooms for rent, jewelry and watches at low prices, farm and grocery ads, and notices of theft attempts. Subscriptions are urged as the paper notes expired prepaid periods and thanks readers for support while reporting a cyclone near Rochester and a police capture of a man named E. L. Johnson.
A man attempted to obtain 3565 from Mr Wm Spade with a forged check bearing Judge Foote’s name, declared a forgery by Judge Foote after review by Marshal Prentice and Officer Harbaugh. The First National Bank issued the checked instrument, marking a continuing wave of crime. The issue also advertises John Daley’s tailoring, Lawrence Business College, local industry news, and several community incidents including injuries from a buggy accident and a dangerous building nuisance claim.
Louise Armainde faces the fastest male rider in a two race program on September 6 and 7 at the Bismarck fair. A five mile sprint and a race against a fast horse headline the event, with Armainde’s many long distance achievements cited to boost excitement for what promises to surpass prior contests.
Grand Ribbon Sale offers ribbons at 5 cents, with 25 cent goods. Grocers Innes Co and Hunt's offer 10 percent discounts. Wanted 100 dozen spring chickens at best market price paid by Pendleton at Kesting's old stand. Silks discounted ten percent at Hunt's. Dr Carl Neumann begins general practice upstairs over Widemann's store focusing on chronic diseases. H O Finch & Co pawn brokers seek secondhand goods and furniture. first door east of Deichmann's on Henry street in Lawrence Kansas.
The annual meeting of Kansas early settlers will be held at Bismarck grove on Saturday September 15 with invitations extended to old settlers across the state. A picnic will follow, Douglas County citizens urged to bring baskets, while talks recall Kansas history. Public teacher examination set for September 1 at Central School, Lawrence, last of the year, announced by J C Banta.
On Wednesday, August 29, market ranges reported: shippers four to four and a quarter dollars, butchers three twenty five to three fifty, fat cows three to three and a quarter, stockers and feeders three twenty five to three fifty. Hogs price from forty one to forty four and a quarter dollars. Sheep ranged from three twenty five to three fifty.
Lawrence market prices for wheat rye corn oats and feed plus produce fruit vegetables and meats. Includes butter molasses beans navy peanuts popcorn walnuts and misc items. Also a divorce notice: Mary A Goddard petitions for divorce from Joseph N Goddard citing habitual drunkenness and neglect with custody request for three children. answer due by Sept 25, 1883.
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