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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1890
Page
3
A sample column invites readers to submit local items from surrounding areas for neighborhood news in The Gazette. It requests communications arrive by Monday afternoon and encourages wide local participation.
Douglas County Hesper notes report farm tenant changes and a north wind storm. Items from Endora, Johnson county farm organizing, Lawrence depot moves, university library add ons, and local socials. Also town briefs from Belleview, Lapeer, Clinton, Orchard Knob, Tongano xie, Linwood, Six Corners and surrounding rail locale with real estate offers and street life observations.
The piece praises March first as moving day a yearly jubilee relieving tenants from landlord obligations for one year and likens it to historical Jewish serfdom. It cites the Kaw river Abrams farm where prior tenants failed to prosper and notes Prof Scott of Lawrence studies Kansas river bottom soil for corn oats buckwheat and barley growth.
A compact advertisement extols Ideal Strawberry varieties, naming Jessie Sharpless Warfield Windsor Chief Mt. Vernon and Tippecanoe as regional ideals. It offers a 1800 Strawberry Manual for a two cent stamp and notes prompt coal orders from C. Brucs & Sox at 683 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence Kansas, Box 6.
The Leavenworth County Farmers Alliance held a Saturday session in Tonganesie with Vice President B H Clover of the National Farmers Alliance addressing members for over an hour. He urged unity across West North South against the East, praised Lincoln era reforms, and stressed hard work and reform. Delegates were told to plan for a two day meeting on April 4 and to attend.
On Saturday next begins a one week sale of muslins shirtings denims prints dress goods hosiery and more at lower prices than ever before Best prints 64c yard muslin 5c yard 94 sheeting 21c heavy shirtings 5c yard and wool dress goods and dress ginghams sold without profit Sellers urge quick purchases and express the need to clear stock.
Ex Governor John P St John condemned the national administration and the Republican Party in a Topeka address. He argued tariff policy harms Kansas farmers, described mortgages, taxes and monopolies as crushing, and criticized Republicans for prohibition and resubmission politics.
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