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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1887
Page
2
Local items from Lawrence in a busy notices page. Mentions Phi Gamma Delta and Beta Theta Pi interfraternity game results, student lectures, club meetings, marriages, deaths, and public notices. Reports on moving families, weather impacts, fires, court actions, and railroad incorporation with regional names and dates.
The report lists ward totals with numbers unclear in places. Fist ward shows 749 registrations, 341 ward shows 18, 128 ward shows 800, 106, leaving interpretation uncertain.
In Lawrence the suffrage forum filled the armory with about 400 ladies as Mrs. Hunnicutt and Mrs. Digga led. candidates Barker and Whitcomb answered brief questions on anti gambling, vice, and suffrage. Barker faced criticism for evasive replies while Whitcomb pledged cooperation and pro suffrage, with audience tensions and post session debate among attendees.
Hon George Barker was called to his mother Mrs Eliza Barker death bed in Clinton Neb. The news states she passed away Monday night. She was over eighty years old and led an exemplary life. Citizens extend sympathies to George Barker beyond political lines.
Mrs Metcalf a veteran trimmer formerly with Edson Keith Co Chicago now at the Bazar in charge of millinery. Bucklen's Ar uti Salve touted for cuts bruises and skin ailments with prices at 36 cents per roe.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a stray fragment about a whip with unclear context. No identifiable people or organizations are evident. Limited readable content prevents a full factual summary.
In a Paris Saint-Jean la Pommerais case, surgeon Velpeau tests whether memory survives decapitation. The condemned man resists, but after hours at Roquette prison the guillotine finally beheads him as diplomat Abbe Crozier and executioner Heinrich witness.
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