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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1890
Page
3
Reports from Oak Hill, Vinland, Belvoir and surrounding towns recount social events, moves, illnesses, and local concerns. Congregations, ice supplies, farming shifts, and a party at Belvoir mark a lively stream of small town life with notes on crops, health, and upcoming meetings.
W B Anderson returns from Illinois visit. Will Jackson, wanted for second degree murder in Kansas City, was captured after escaping jail. The piece notes Jackson's ties to Leavenworth and his mother living locally. Also mentions schoolhouse organization, grippe absence, Sam Eberhart’s move, and hog cholera spread fears tied to a Topeka pig.
The rural report profiles Eli Johnson with 45 acres yielding about 2000 bushels of potatoes and growing hogs for May. Local anecdotes recount two dogs and two cows disappearing, offered as spirit land activity. Town notices list events, visits, bakery opening, church meetings, and staff changes in Tonganoxie.
An old canyon adobe, sturdy for centuries, houses a lady and daughter with woodland solitude and nightly wolf calls. A romantic hunter from Lawrence became mentally unsettled after visiting, left the Heights, wandered cities, and vanished en route to Oklahoma. Real estate ad notes 171 acres near the university and a south Lawrence property with orchard and water, available soon.
Yard wide Brown Muslin 5c Yard wide Bleached Muslin 6 1 4c Cheviots 8 1 4c to 10c Ticking 7 4c and 12c Denim 12 1 4c and 15c Prints and Calicoes 5c Gingham 5c 7 1 4c Sateens 7 1 2c White Goods 5c 10c Dress Goods 10c 15c 25c Corsets 50c 75c and 1 Hosiery 5c 12 1 2c 15c 25c Carpets Curtains lowest prices. Give us a chance to show you the goods.
L C McIntire advocates IDEAL strawberry varieties by region with names such as Wisconsin School Sharpless Ohio Warfield Wines Windsor Chief Ma Vernon Tippecanoe and recommends a two cent stamp for his new manual detailing how to grow IDEAL strawberries.
An item offers 160 acres for trade for property near Lawrence Kansas in the wheat belt. Notices invite inquiries at 1120 Rhode Island Street Lawrence. Local ads list Diamond and Peerless Dyes stock at Raymond and Dicks and a Lawrence dentist Dr Wheeler at 20 Massachusetts Street with low cost dental work including artificial teeth and fillings. Open 7 00 am to 6 03 pm.
Wanted potatoes chickens turkeys pigeons and eggs with payment at the highest market price. A. J. Griffin offers coal at very low cash prices while old fashioned dyes and chemicals remain in stock with many county households.
Reports from Guthrie and Arkansas City describe settlers massing near the Cherokee Strip to preempt opening day amid federal orders restricting cattlemen. Proclamations and commissioner letters urge removal of cattle and caution against intrusions while courts consider penalties for grazing without Indigenous consent. A double murder in Garena is also reported alongside Dahomey tensions.
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