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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1890
Page
3
A fragmented district column reports local notes from Finland Wakarusa and Lecompton. Farmers praise rains lifting crops while boosts in potato yields occur. Socials include dances, picnics, and church news. Lawrence police and local figures appear amid small-town incidents and a notable arrest wrap.
The column describes J H Dean's botanical garden in Douglas County with a rich acre of ground and diverse varieties, praising Kansas soil for drug plants. It also reports on a Bismarck youth selling potatoes in Lawrence, making a bold claim about market prices, and notes local harvests, yields, and agricultural conditions with comments on wheat and crops across the region.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe land parcels around crestul the Hoists and a young woman who bought about two full sections. Mentions retirement in ATt. Cros and a case record with a band’s song and two cases cited. The passage is garbled with many misspellings and unknown names.
Leavenworth County items report a fatality near Creek last week, a wedding at a Washington county home, and a long journey across the plains with J. Gilmore. News covers church talk, strawberry vine damage from a dry spell, Tonganoxie weather and wheat mills, visits from Polly Laming and Rev. Reverts, a popular mineral well, a bee reporter’s local fame, and election candidate mentions as the year proceeds.
The clipping recalls longtime habits of summer gatherings near Reno and Ton ganoxie with fishing and campfire evenings, lamenting their decline if the fish and times do not return. It notes a drought ruining corn, wheat in stacks, and a finds tale about a furniture delivery amid roads to Lawrence, ending with local speech quirks and pay habits.
A woman credits Dr Pierce’s remedies for relief from harassment and distress, praising its effectiveness for female suffering. The piece lists his pills for headaches and constipation and notes community support as endorsing the product. A separate incident reports Roundtree firing at a Lincoln housekeeper, wounding Henry Herald during a dispute overheard by bystanders.
The note urges investing in dry goods amid rising prices and surplus summer goods sold at cost or less. It promotes trading for profit, claiming prices will advance and calling the current sale a smart opportunity for buyers to stock up.
The Seaside and White Mountain Special proves popular as it departs Wednesdays from Dearborn Street Chicago with full accommodation for summer tourists. Next departure is 5 p.m. Wednesday. Passengers bound for Niagara Falls Thousand Islands Adirondacks White Mountains Portland Maine and North Atlantic seaside resorts should book early. Apply to E H Hughes General Western Passenger Agent Chicago. A large stock of painters supplies offered by Leb Deve Co.
A Chicago Herald piece attacks railroads and grain elevators for pilfering farmers through inflated ship weights and shortages. It claims railroads control major eastern elevators at Toledo Buffalo and New York, with some elevators paying high dividends to railroad owners. The author calls for reform and asserts widespread padding and theft in grain delivery, urging direct appeals to the public.
Representative William H Hatch notes causes such as selling surplus in world markets and buying necessities in restricted markets, high freight rates, silver demonetization, unjust federal taxes, and beef pork trade trusts. Remedies call for tariff reform, higher incomes taxes, full silver remonetization, more paper money, and ban on trusts and gambling in futures.
A Western Journal essay questions landlordism in America, arguing English and Irish influence but urging the refusal of foreign landlord control. It urges citizens and nonresident landlords to support government, criticizes unified taxation, and calls the farmers of Pennsylvania to unite for equal taxation and a commonwealth. The piece appeals to voters to stand for reform and abolish entrenched landlord power in the state.
A Grange Advocate laments farmer disengagement despite accessible education efforts. He urges united, regular participation in meetings and institutes to safeguard farmer interests and resist injustice, urging readers to commit time and note coal supplier C. Brhee & Son for affordable coal.
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