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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1891
Page
2
A garbled OCR passage mentions Dow Haggard, Colorado Springs, and the Torre family with political ties. References to a Democrat, a pardon, and a governor hint at a legal or political notice amid scattered names and places including Ohio Street and a weather bureau related term.
Jumbled OCR reads indicate a Kansas City event today near Turtev and Lawrence, a Clinton store possession dispute, and a social gathering hosted by Mrs Chas Grant with guests honoring Miss Straberg of Little Rock visiting for the summer.
Fragments from a Kansas City Times Sunday page show an ad style promise of cutting prices on summer goods. The garbled text includes stray phrases about farmers and a misheard speech referencing a bar trip and chancellor snow.
A Sunday school picnic is planned amid town updates including the Rushmer house on Louisiana Street rebuilt and improved. The article lists residents visiting from Weston Missouri and reports on local contractor Schneider completing a Queen Anne cottage on Street near Ohio, plus a new warehouse project at a barb wire factory with Shaw & Son handling the work.
Local Baldwin pages report on a refused Lenock office notice and a push to collect back year subscriberships while quoting editorials on debt and accountability. The piece includes community notices, meeting reminders for social groups, and remarks on subscription behavior by residents claiming to follow local papers.
The store announces a week of bargains with 15c to 12%%c ginghams, 19c half wool dress goods, 5c lawns, 5c pins, and heavy discounts on sheetings, damask, napkins, towels, hosiery and underwear. Customers swarm as they offer low prices on reliable year’s purchases.
Report notes Dr Waite ran a six week camp near the jur and was said to have been scooped for 43 300 above expenses from Lawrence people. The item also mentions a crash involving Bromelsick and a carryall near a school, with minor injuries but no serious harm. University finances are questioned over a foundation work warrant of 21 172 80 rejected for lack of statutory appropriation. Officers elected and a resolution thanking former president Bleakley are listed.
Publisher apologizes for delays in printing the August novel supplement by H. Rider Haggard and notes low profitability of the feature. Also reports a new landlord arrival in Eldridge House, a July 15 wedding near Leavenworth Oklahoma, city water dispute with a local company, and Fraternal Aid Association resolutions mourning Minnie W. Anderson.
A newspaper notice announces an upcoming sale of silk umbrellas with three lots priced at $1.15, $1.45, and $1.98, each marked well below their listed values. Additional fast black gingham umbrellas are offered at 75c, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50.
A flurry of reports describes a 105 foot shaft accident in Galena killing 15 year old Ed Vaughn, a failed Howell Lumber Co. and bonds dispute in Arkansas City, a crossing death near Wichita, a Kansas City preacher defamation case, and a bank closure in Kansas City Missouri. Also notes reform calls in Topeka, crop estimates, and a murder theory surrounding a body found in the Kansas River.
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