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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1887
Page
6
A medical column discusses how a child’s brain grows rapidly while other organs lag, leading to natural nervousness. It recommends a calm routine, regular meals, fresh air, and a soft, balanced diet of milk, fish, eggs, and limited meat or pastries to ease overactivity, with schooling kept supportive rather than overtaxing.
A early 20th century domestic piece urges structured household rules, fixed meal times, and strict routines to maintain order. It contrasts extremes in spending on decor, praising frugality and purposeful living, with emphasis on efficiency and self discipline for homemakers.
A mosaic of brief observations on fashion, housekeeping, trades, and social roles. From Harriet Spotford praising service to Harriet’s era reflections on frame errors in commerce, royal etiquette, dressmaker secrets, laundry tips, and women’s moral influence, to open-air child exercise and parental guidance.
The essay surveys middle and upper class Italian courtship, noting strict seclusion for women in the home and increasing freedom in cities like Florence and Naples. It describes how love grows from covert glances and balcony views to staged negotiations led by elder women, with betrothals often arranged through family intermediaries and social judgements rather than direct consent.
A loon long at home on the Schuylkill near Philadelphia flew into the Zoo logical Gardens and was captured. A silver collar around its neck bore the engraving Nemo, the hermit, 1804, leading the head keeper to declare the bird of remarkable age.
A real estate notice lists an improved 160 acre farm ten miles from Lawrence with creek bottom, about 100 cultivated acres, fenced fields, timber, a large house, barn, sheds, corn cribs, an old Dearing orchard and many fruit trees. Priced at 4500 dollars with easy payment. Also offers a 20 acre farm residence with fruit trees near town, and a 45 acre tract three miles northeast of Longanoxie with three rooms, wellWater and stock water, priced 2100 dollars with easy terms.
State of Ransag Dowstas County notice announces the February 16 court appointment of Gorane as executor of the will and estate of Korag R. Conant, deceased, of Douglas County. Interested parties are instructed to govern themselves accordingly.
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