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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1891
Page
7
Readable fragments describe county actions involving Lena Gleam and Crews. References include Lucy and Clemmire, noting children of someone and a body found west of Ellis. Details are garbled but imply official county appropriations or actions affecting residents.
A digest from wartime and domestic notices reports Burlington payroll cuts across eight lines averaging about £150,000 monthly, with February expected to mirror January’s poor outlook. Farm prospects in the South show delays and dim hopes for last year’s records. Severe earthquakes strike Tacoma and Ellensburg with minor damage. A Bay Roberts fire rescues children but injures a mother. Drownings occur in Solomonville and Arkansas gun mishap deaths. Wellston reports 10 business fires with insured losses. Receivers appointed for American Loan & Trust Co. Paris Figaro notes four Bernheim blood transfusion deaths. Boston unions express discontent and plan Knights of Labor in New England. Russian and Polish Jews flee czar oppression aided by Baron Hirsch. Clearing house weekly totals show a 49 percent drop from last year with New York down 12 percent.
Leavenworth Kansas March 10 reports a Ways and Means fix on penitentiary salaries with the warden’s pay to be raised while others board themselves. Public dining room suspended. convicts now the only regular boarders inside the walls. Prison physician salary cut from 1400 to 1290. Also notes sleet storms damaging fruit trees in Antonio Texas and snow in Arkansas and Palestine Texas. Rome reports unchanged Prince Jerome Napoleon condition and family hurrying to Rome with Prince Victor objecting to submission.
Reports include Congressman Breckinridge being ill, Capt. S. E. Mason's death in Vancouver from Bright's disease, Burt’s building in Buffalo destroyed by fire with $225,000 loss, and cables of U S ministers and arbitration offers from Tokio and Behring Sea discussions. Also notes on Behring Sea policy, a missing eight-year-old near Wichita, silver service presented to the cruiser Atlanta, Foster returning to Washington, and a Peoria sugar plant fire with $100,000 loss. Other items: Dudley Hall & Co. insolvency, Eastern Star session in Kansas, Minneapolis Tribune sale, retrenchment at Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific RR, Brazilian reciprocity, Delaware stock certificate mystery, and the drownings of Henry C. Lamar and Miss Louise King Connelly near Atlanta.
Market reports from Wan3zas and Chicago describe grain and provisions prices across multiple items. Wheat, corn, oats, rye, butter, eggs, and pork products show varied bids and asks with regional price ranges and futures notes, alongside cattle and sheep values and general market firmness or softness.
Ash House in Kansas has sold more goods than any similar business in Lawrence during nine years of operation. Patrons have been saved money each year, and a visit to the store is urged to prove that 1891 marks the best year in the shop’s history.
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