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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1897
Page
8
The article touts Paine's Celery Compound as nourishing and regulating digestion, blood, and nerves. It claims lasting cures for nervous debility sleeplessness headaches dyspepsia and heart palpitations and urges spring use for children to improve blood quality brain and nervous system function.
An assortment of advertisements offers No-Tu-Bas tobacco cures and medical products. Notices urge readers to read Douglas County's newspaper for local news. Travel deals from Banta Fe Route promote discounted San Francisco and southern California tickets with through Pullman sleeper service to Colorado and nearby regions. Also mentions Cascarets laxative candy and cold remedies.
For thirty one years we have sold china glass queensware silver plated ware and more. We now change our business and offer our entire stock at cost with SPOT CASH terms. Goods marked in plain figures. Ice cream freezers jelly glasses fruit jars and refrigerators all go at first cost with nothing reserved.
Local notice reports J A Dailey, formerly of Shultz and Boyd, has opened a horseshoeing shop at the corner of Vermont and Winthrop streets. He seeks patronage from ship friends and former customers and advertises related wares from Exits & Hops. Also includes ads for Cascarets Candy, Cottonwood lumber for sale near Lake View station, and a note on Black Walnut being lighter than a similar quantity of es.
The piece surveys silk petticoats featuring varied silks from bargain 35 cent yardage to expensive brocades. It explains full, bustled silhouettes with Spanish or bias flounces, multiple flounces, and light evening versions with stiff silks and hem tapes. It notes care in selection to avoid narrow, crackable skirts and outlines styling distinctions versus hoopskirts and bustles.
A description of the turbots eyes and behavior contrasts with other fish noting its ball and socket gaze and independent eye movement. Mount Vesuvius erupts as a Naples dispatch reports lava covering 2,000 by 500 yards and danger within 400 yards of the crater. Democratic convention in Corcasus, Indiana nominates Francis Marion Griffith to succeed the late Judge William Holman.
State Superintendent Mc Nall presents the 1896 Kansas insurance activity. Fire companies included ten mutuals with property value over 5.3 million and premiums 83,767. Losses to 43,764. The Shawnee Fire Insurance Co. wrote 10.1 million in property and 67.78 in premiums, losses 720. A dozen foreign and domestic firms wrote in state, life and misc lines with varying premiums, losses, and policies in force. The report critiques insurance journals and notes high executive salaries and stock prices for insurers in the period.
A Gerald dispatch from Havana via Key West reports Mr. Calhoun backs stopping the Cuban war at all hazards if possible. He favors pressure on Spain and urges McKinley to use all means to end the conflict, citing the suffering of island civilians and reconcentrado camps. He is not aligned with jingoism. In New York a pool to buy 80 million gallons of whisky in bond in Kentucky is discussed, with an estimated $50 million needed and prices ranging from 39 cents to $2.40 per gallon.
A severe storm swept through North Texas with strong winds and heavy rain. Wheat and nearby crops face potential damage as harvest nears, with Fort Worth hit hard as about twenty homes in two wards were blown from foundations or damaged.
MapDRip June 5 notes a crisis over Cuba reforms with Spain seeking a governor who can reassure reform intentions. Conservatives show signs of wavering on Weyler, hinting Martinez Campos could be willing to replace him to avoid Liberal rule.
In Chicago, Charles R Person ex-banker known as the Bella Prince took poison in the Grand Central hotel and died. A letter to Bow men of St Louis shows he owed Bow men and other creditors and hints at using his life to secure payment from life insurance. Police say the act aimed to settle Bow mans claim.
The Brotherhood of the Co operative Commonwealth led by Eugene Debs and Henry Lloyd proposes a 1500 person community in Utah as the first test site. Myron W Reid says after initial success in Utah the movement will expand to educate and establish communities in other states. Headquarters are in Thomaston Maine with 1944 members and finances cited. In a separate item, First National Bank directorate report a teller William Boggs left after admitting a $38000 shortage.
In DiANarctis Indiana on June 4 Jesse Way was sentenced to seven years in the Indiana state prison for counterfeiting. He is eighty years old and has spent forty five years of his life in prison, mainly for the same crime he was sentenced for today.
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