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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1884
Page
3
A collage of brief items from diverse papers cites curiosities and oddities. Notes on stamps, embassies, land ownership, divorces, royal favors, fashionable dogs, and whimsical quotes. Reports include incidents in Cleveland, Chicago, Louisville, Boston, and Chicago Herald sketches with satirical asides and anecdotes.
A Providence reader shares a private letter from an American student in Athens Greece. He describes Greek family life on streets near Xolus Euripides and Hermis, Athena as maid, and a city with 28 newspapers and 250 lawyers while 80 000 people live there. The University holds 2500 students mostly in law with many destined for farming. Piræus harbor employs 20 000 in industry. The piece notes no manufacturing beyond small crafts, bustling streets bound for nowhere, and a patriotism rooted in a past rather than political parties.
An Nashville insurance agent questions a dealer about past fires tied to Isaacs and Moses in Atlanta Charleston and Mobile. The dealer defends actions citing investigations and a Cincinnati avowal, insisting a rival or missing party kept watch all night over a stockroom.
A senator taught a hotel boy’s prank in which caramel candies laced with soap were offered to Garland. He ate the entire confection without showing distress, prompting fear among the pranksters. Butler quips Garland has an Arkansas stomach, and the incident remains unclear whether Garland tasted the soap.
In the Philadelphia Call, Dumley recalls serving three years in the Rebellion and boasts he was a capable soldier. He recounts enjoying martial music, avoiding wounds, and jokes about his nose sensing battles from afar, while Brown and Mrs. Simpson-Hendricks react with admiration and curiosity.
Benj W Paton a Globe Village Mass pharmacist reports St Jacobs Oil has greatly helped his business with sales doubling in one month. Army and Navy officers praise Lt Jacobs Oil as the greatest pain cure of the age. The ad advises pay as you go and notes the shop keeps a large supply on hand.
Advice to consumptives urges early relief with Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier and strength restorer. Promotes it as superior to cod liver oil for weak lungs and coughing, sold by druggists, with offer of Dr Pierce’s treatise for two stamps. Advertisement closes with a flirtatious coinage from Picayune.
A health pamphlet claims Dr. Scott's Coca, Beef and Iron with Phosphorus cures nervous and chronic ailments. Free to sufferers who failed to find relief, the product is advertised at $1 and available through druggists. pamphlet requested from Dr. Scott, Kansas City, MO. A stray journal fragment mentions a child asking for a good-bye at a street corner.
A Detroit Pos t advertises Kidney-Wort as a fast acting remedy for kidney liver and bowel complaints. It claims to cleanse the system of poisonous humors and restore organ health. The note urges sufferers to try it despite previous medical failures, with a concluding proverb about finding opportunity in adversity.
A collage of ads extols butter color from Wells Richard son Co and notes on improved dairy practices. It promotes Dr Pierce and Ely remedies, patent tonics, dyes, and health cures, praising various tonics and nostrums with testimonials and prices.
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