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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1887
Page
3
Field and Hargis at 803 Massachusetts Street advertise a spring stock of wall paper window shades and new goods. The store claims a complete line and lower prices with inducements, inviting customers to see prices and stock.
Local items describe Mrs. Dodds injured in a buggy accident, farm sales and plantings by Lawson Hicks and Philips, highway depot plans along the Bismarck line, and various farm, rail, and social updates across Yerson Heights, Vinland and surrounding communities.
The narrative recalls a child’s prolonged illness and death after a noon service on Sabbeth 24th. Everett rallies briefly, speaks softly to his mother, then dies at 4 10 PM. Rev Wesly Ingalls delivers a short sermon before burial beside Baby at Sutton graveyard. The passage then shifts to local farm activity and town notices.
This month offers strong bargains in dress goods white goods laces and embroideries. Visit L O McIntire to see the selections and save on your purchases.
A vintage ad promotes Newmarket's dry goods sale with lower prices on shawls. The copy emphasizes cool days, elegant shawls, and convincing customers to visit Weaver's for bargains.
Advertises prints for five cents and unbleached muslin yard wide at five cents. Also offers lawn fabrics at three cents and ginghams six and a quarter cents per yard at L. O. McIntire's.
Four bale of items including a bay eight year old horse and a four year old Jersey bull registered, seen at H Johns stable. Also platform spring wagon shown at Justus Howell's location.
A roundup of innovations and experiments including heat sterilization, underground wiring, a brittle anesthetic bullet, a stringless bottle trick, chimney down draughts, odd gas effects on plants near gas posts, Niagara’s massive water power, a pocket gas lighter, new refracting glass, and a method to compare candle power by shadow, noting practical and theoretical implications.
A scattered miscellany covers myths about goldfish survival without feeding and the aquarium ecosystem. It notes a Pearl fishery on the Little Miami and a meager yield of pearls per thousand oysters. It recounts biblical fruit classifications, the Omaha Council Bluffs naming episode, and vast unsurveyed western lands. It references lightning dough, ferments, and ancient biscuit origins. A Turkish sultan’s toothache leads to a barber surgeon. A listed wage note concludes the fragment.
Burglary at Isador Green’s Leavenworth store nets pants suits a revolver knives and shirts. Henry Stevens a railroad section hand abuses a thirteen year old Mary Schultz and later dies. Painter Nagle suffocates in a vat at Herder’s vinegar works. fumes from paint and vinegar cause his death. Plus legals, pensions, bank charters, and civic notes across Kansas with Grant memorial services and court rulings on homestead mortgages.
The article describes Thomas Edison visiting Florida and declaring he is resting to work harder, pursuing six or seven ideas with one idea potentially shocking the world. He hints at progress on light related discoveries, while handling questions about his methods and mental stamina. Also noted is a Parisian wedding party scene with a costers clash as an orange cart injures a relative, sparking a lively street altercation.
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