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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1887
Page
8
The column mixes business notices and local events. Residents urged to settle arrears, with Union Pacific officials visiting Carbondale. The issue promotes Collins Ague Cure and Dr Pierce remedies for malaria and dyspepsia, plus a marriage notice, a university declamation result, and multiple notices including a catarrh remedy.
Our Great Jubilee Sale Yesterday drew crowds and word spread nationwide. We offer Ladies silk mits at fifteen cents a pair, Handkerchiefs for five cents, and linen hem stitched initials for 12 1-2 cents. Also black silk louncings, Egyptian flouncings, 4 button kids, and various hose at low prices. Dress goods at half price, silks and surahs, and line after line of bargains. Our stock, unmatched in this city, invites comparison and shows to any customer.
Adam Forepaugh Jr and colleagues describe elephant training at Madison Square Garden. Elephants require a year of constant, repetitive work with strict control, as trainers emphasize routine over improvisation. Forepaugh notes individual cases of cunning, the need for daily practice, and animals’ health risks including cold and consumption.
A professor delivers a lecture on astronomy and notes Mercury lies about 7,000,000 miles from the Sun. Afterward an auditor asks about the talk, and the reply shifts to the challenge of estimating the homes of stars, highlighting a humorous misdirection about vast distances.
A new narrow gauge incline railroad up Lookout Mountain has just been completed at an estimated cost of about $200,000. The line runs from the foot of the mountain to the location where General Joe Hooker planted his flag, according to reports from New York.
J. E. Parke advertises a building site formerly occupied by Montgomery’s grocery destroyed by fire. Jockiem’s Aruba Salve promises cure for skin eruptions and piles with a 26 cent price. Barber Bros. and Mrs. Philip Hosford visit. Gleason Whitman offer farm real estate loans with Eastern capital at low rates for Douglas county and nearby areas.
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