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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1890
Page
2
Local notes from Lawrence and surrounding towns report renewals in subscriptions for The Kansan and other papers, small town visits, a few deaths, millinery purchases, and upcoming YMC A and church services. A court case in Eudora looms and a local restaurant improvement is noted. The New York to Denver travel line is mentioned in passing.
Our counters are piled high with new goods from Boston New York and Chicago trips. Daily opening of choice novelties not elsewhere in the city. Low prices on Dress Goods Muslins Sheetings Satteens Carpets Mattings and more. Our buying facilities beat all firms here. Come look over our stock. talk is cheap but low prices stand.
Ed E W Melville attends Alliance meeting in Topeka. Shawnee County farmer Geo Greas visits. Professor Wm MacDonald resigns as dean of music at the University. Howell, Anders, Anderson of Clinton depart for Pueblo to work on irrigation ditches. Glathart home burns. Pansy the bull terrier dies. Durham and McHale elected honorary Jeffersonian Club members. E C Davin at Haskell Institute travels to Pu… to aid Indian children. Adam Griffith and Delia Thorp wed at Cherryvale. W J Bell and Geo Kumler to launch wholesale fruit and produce business at 630 Massachusetts. Deestric Scale to be staged by Eudora literary society. Speran home near Holling burned. fire from defective flue. K Carter in Birmingham for Western Farm Mortgage Co. Rankin and bride host reception. Leis Bank vice-president. Burglar steals clothes and goods from John Daily’s tailor shop. $250 value. J F Bayless buys Place House. Stevens to run hotel. Mrs Gardner’s millinery shows new stock. readers await Tax Gazette next week.
Local ad lists prices on children and ladies hose, underwear, corsets, gloves, prints, muslin, ginghams, sateens, linens, napkins, towels, crash, dress goods, carpets and curtains. It promises savings and invites shoppers to see the sale.
A note on Easter preparations mentions painting and dyeing eggs with Raymond's drug store offering six colors for 10 cents or eight for 5 cents. R K Tabor resigns as Santa Fe agent at this point and moves to Alabama as land agent for Shelby Iron Co. The community mourns his departure. Wm A Carpenter, longtime farmer of Wakarusa township, died by self inflicted throat injury at his home. He was 65. Once wealthy, he faced declining health and despondency. funeral held Monday.
From across the county comes a push to buy paint at Raymond's Drug Store in Lawrence featuring Diamond Brand Prepared Paint praised for quality and value. The message also invites shoppers to visit the carpet department to see designs and varieties, urging timely selection for the season. INNES.
J. M. Stephens announces retirement from Raymond & Dick and that he can be found at B. W. Woopwarp's Old Round Corner drug store run by W. S. Dice. The Place House hotel in Lawrence is under new management and being fitted for guest comfort with many new boarders. Old patrons are urged to visit. valuables left in care will be kept as safely as at home.
Wanted potatoes chickens turkeys pigeons and eggs at the highest market price. W H PeepLetor. Woodward's best mixed paint touted as the world’s best. Who has the next best? Hygienic Kalsomine now in season.
Robert Austin Dean an early county settler died in this city on Monday from la grippe. Born in Ohio in 1822, he settled near Clinton in 1857, moved to Lawrence this winter, and leaves a wife, two sons, and a daughter. The death prompts wide sympathy from many friends.
Weavers states new shipments arrived by express including Mohairs and Grace Brilliantine with black and white stripes among other attractive textiles. After a recent trip to the Eastern markets they claim prices are favorable to customers and that styles are exceptionally beautiful. Manufacturers, importers, and jobbers are eager to sell, and they promise Lawrence shoppers the lowest prices ever known on reliable merchandise.
The Cash Shoe Store opened by Frank Meierhoffer and Henry Hunzicker on Saturday March 8 in room 830 Massachusetts street formerly Bayless Mercantile Co two doors north of Herman Broeker's tin shop. Citizens of Lawrence and nearby are invited to call and inspect stock. Goods are new and sold for cash. repairs are offered with neat, prompt service.
An American discoverer Henry Jones is said to have found a petrified wood sourced oil on a Washington county Texas farm four years ago. Advertisements claim Jo-He oil heals cuts burns and skin diseases with magnetic and electric properties and promise cures across the Union with free trial applications through Lawrence Kansas and other offices.
The Gazette announces a limited time offer of one dollar per year in advance to increase circulation. Cash payers with arrears can subscribe, promoting the weekly paper as the county’s best family choice. Office details: Journal building, second floor, rear.
Public sale notice from GEO INNES at 813 815 Mass St Lawrence Kan. Last chance on seamless Rockford socks 75 cents per dozen or four pairs for 25c. Also sale of horses cattle by Geo W Wart with 6 months credit at 7 percent, 5 percent cash discount, sale starts 10 o'clock. Also farm for sale near University 171 acres with improvements and 10 75 foot lots address The old fashioned dyewoods and chemicals at Raymond Dick's.
C Bruce and Son advertise comprehensive coal quality services and assure a constant two good supply on hand to meet customer needs across all coal types.
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