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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
4
The text discusses subscription terms for The Gazette with advance payment discounts and a mailing address for Frank L. Webster. It shifts to a broad critique of trusts, tariffs, and political economy, citing wage cuts at Rhode Island mills, a carpet mill shutdown, and comments on McKinley era policies, ending with social chatter about a wife.
The dispatches describe Greece backing its Crete stance against coerceive powers. Admirals report dispatches, Greek defenses strengthen under King George, with mass meetings in London condemning coercion. Public sentiment proclaims loyalty to Greece and calls to oppose war with Greece.
In London meetings rallied support for Crete and Greece amid Eastern crisis fears. About 15 000 people gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday with six platforms and speakers including Lord Coleridge Harold Reckitt Richard McShee John Arbert Lewis advocating liberty and Greek solidarity.
John L Sullivan, at 88 and 250 pounds, says he will challenge the winner of the Fitzsimmons Corbett fight for the world heavyweight championship. He declares no bluff and ready money, and explains Corbett’s punches and his own failure in prior bout were not due to his own strength. He also criticizes training methods under Queensbury rules.
A collage of short items mentions William Alvord becoming Bank of California president for the nineteenth time. Also notes domestic frictions from Kansas City to Dawsonville and Florence, Missouri. Anecdotes include I Goldstein languages, a London court ruling on a water cart, Col Waring's street cleaning budget, and Mother Goose’s birth and death dates.
A Chicago Chronicle report describes South Water Street merchants turning waste into products. Apple parings are dried and canned into jams, used tea leaves are reprocessed, onion peels sold to dyehouses, and banana skins dried for food components.
A westbound passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Southern railway was stopped by a landslide near Hill's Station Ohio five miles east of Loveland. A heavy freight crashed into the sleeper, telescoping much of its length and injuring occupants. two lightly hurt, two seriously, two badly hurt but not fatally. Other items include ads for Hood's Sarsaparilla, Santa Fe Route excursions, and a map sales pitch.
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