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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1887
Page
6
Incomplete OCR text references a September 3 1887 deadline and legal conveyance by Douglas County with partial sums and official names like H L Moors Treasurer and Dr Moore. The readable fragments indicate a financial or property notice with statutory language and overdue terms.
Sealed proposals addressed to the undersigned at Haskell Institute Kansas will be received until March 5th 1887 for building materials including time of delivery. Bids require certified checks or drafts payable to the United States Treasury for at least five percent of bid amount. If awarded and bidder fails to execute contract with proper sureties, funds are forfeited. otherwise checks returned. Superintendent routeens.
An advertisement promotes the Bayless Mercantile Company with wide stock of house furnishings and the greatest variety in the county. The Century Magazine contents are listed, including works by Cable, Stoddard, Stillman, Brownell, van Rensselaer, Buckley, and others, with portraits and an open letter on Lincoln. Information requests, livestock for sale, and travel notes conclude the item.
A garbled ad touts a stock selling cheap whips from ten cents to three dollars and highlights robes and horse blankets. It invites customers to visit first door north of the Opera House to see the selection from H. W. Hexpesson.
A string of farm listings from Levi A. Doane of Lawrence Kansas offers an old improved 160 acre farm with creek bottom cultivation fenced pastures timber and a large house barn sheds and outbuildings priced at 4800 with easy terms. Also halved value house with three rooms and basement on a fruit abundant lot near streetcar lines and Lawrence. A magnificent 20 acre farm and residence with bearing orchard bluegrass lawn and modern house awaits buyers near city privileges. Nighty Cree Farm three miles northeast of Tonganoxie 46 cultivated acres and timberland with house stable and fruit trees priced 2600 with easy terms or exchange. For full details contact Levi A. Doane Lawrence Kansas Office over Leis Drug Store.
Publication notice states M E Weir has sued by David E Weir in the District Court of Douglas County Kansas. Petition filed in February 1867 seeks a divorce on abandonment for over a year. If E Weir does not answer by April 23 1897 a default judgment may be entered. Attorneys listed include Hwsaxne JL, and Buitstow.
A damaged line from a classified note mentions a farm for sale near Lawrence Kansas plus a sanitary lotion warrant and a pharmacist address at 168 First Avenue East. The text is incomplete but indicates agricultural sale and medical supply references.
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