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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1887
Page
8
A chaotic city column reports the death of Mrs. Hannah Collier, early Lawrence settler, with assorted ads and fragmented notices. The piece mentions medical tonics, vermifuges, marriage licenses in Topeka, lectures in Ottawa, and various local happenings from a rough OCR fragment.
A guide discusses color schemes for rooms to match art, with warm tones in drawing rooms and bright hues in bedrooms. It recommends Axminster carpets for elegance, velvet piles for parlors, Brussels for halls and stairs, and the need for moth-proof linings. Practical notes cover carpet padding, sizing, and avoiding harsh underlayers.
A narrator recalls meeting a man named Datwio described as a slave who claimed to be from a distant homeland. The account portrays him as intelligent yet exploited, working as a laborer and enduring harsh conditions, sometimes in water up to his waist, while his owner defended his status as property. The tale blends memory and conjecture about wartime labor abuses.
The San Francisco Call notes a German scientist’s cheerful forecast of a future human race living in comfort with a fur or hair coating for warmth. The passage reflects on primitive past methods and the imagined ease of forthcoming survival.
The Washington Capital recounts Mark Twain joking with a conductor over a slow train while en route to a western city for a lecture. Twain pretended not to know the official, explaining friends would miss meeting him if he walked, due to a two hour delay. Gerald Maxwell, stage name of a con man posing as Miss Braddon's associate, is praised as clever and promising.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes Castoria as a remedy through a daughter and grandchildren. D. C. Adams, an old Douglas county resident, visited from Jefferson county last week and made a call. His post office is now at Orawkie.
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