03 Mar 1887
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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
1
The text notes Kansas State University as a seat of learning and mentions the United States Indian school as another educational institution in the state. No further factual details or events are provided in the fragment.
Advertises the Gulf Route from Kansas City via Ft. Scott to through trains to Eastern and Southern Kansas, Southwest Missouri, and Texas with Pullman sleeping and reclining chair cars. Claims shortest line to Little Rock, Hot Springs, Fort Smith and Arkansas points and offers maps and the Missouri and Kansas Farmer paper by J. E. Locewoon, G P and T A, Kansas City.
An interview published for the first time recalls the 1884 Gramercy Park meeting among Gov. Hendricks, Mr. Tilden, and John Lamb. Lamb describes a private exchange about Mrs Hendricks and Tilden, ending with Tilden's frail condition and a silent departure.
A New York Boston dispatch profiles three American professional cyclists Woodside Temple and Morgan as they prepare to challenge English riders on speed tests. Woodside, born in Philadelphia, is a veteran champion with a history of expert road and track racing including long distance titles in Ireland and England. Temple, born in Chicago and educated at Knox College, is a noted road and trick rider from the West. Morgan, born in England and long based in Canada and the U.S., is team manager and long distance champion who once rode 235 miles in a six day race before illness. The piece also touches on American cycling prestige and a broader note on dramatic arts and education in New York.
A Detroit Free Press correspondent tours the Capitol’s underground vaults, describing narrow circular passages and dead-end halls created after foundational changes by President Pierce and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. The maze is dark, claustrophobic, and easy to lose one’s way in.
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