Unusual dry goods sale at Weaver's store offers large savings
Weaver advertises bulk stock at low prices for this season including 40 inch Etamine suiting at 47¢ per yard, 40 inch Bombazines at 39¢, wash fabrics at 15¢, ox blood shoes at 2¥ to 5¢, and cheap summer suits from 5 to 10 dollars. Also promotes a new Douglas county map for 25¢ at Raymond's Drug Store, detailing local geography and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver
New York
Kansas Christian Endeavor Union
Topeka
Kane
Chautauqua Assembly
Ottawa
Kan
Leis
Gro. C. Baker
Whitcomb & Son Florists Expand in Lawrence
The Whitcomb & Son green house, established 27 years ago by A. Whitcomb, has expanded this spring with improvements and new branches. They specialize in roses and carnations and boast the largest plant and bulb collection in Lawrence. Visit the corner of Tennessee and Warren streets for choice out flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green House of Whitcomb & Son
A. Whitcomb
Lawrence
Tennessee and
Warren Street
Gazette Subscriptions And Local Happenings
The notice lists numerous Gazette subscribers and payments from residents of Lawrence, Overbrook, and surrounding areas. It mentions marriages and licenses for Ollie Marshball and Sarah E. Rogers, Lillis and Pearl Pierson, and Dan and Mary McKinney family ties. It notes the K U seniors beating faculty 20 to 13 in baseball, a road grader contest outcome, a forged check case, and various local events including horticultural society meetings, a golden wedding celebration, and presentations at University hall. It also records an insane adjudication, a railway mail injury claim, and upcoming events like The Creation at University hall with a 100-voice chorus and 12-piece orchestra.
Canker worm menace eyed by authorities and weddings noted
Chancellor Naow urges treatments for the canker worm pest threatening eastern Kansas fruit and elm trees with girdling bands and sticky trunk coatings as methods to curb spread. R. S. Saunders, famed musician, wed Emma Gathers as Kemler's prominent marriage on the north side was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issera
United States
Massachusetts
Kansas
London
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Ad
Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best salve for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and more. Claims guaranteed satisfaction or money back with price 25 cents per box. For sale locally.
Kansans Read, Then Mistake It All In Town News
A miscellany of Kansas items covers education, politics, and local oddities. Notes recount a senator's hazy schooling, a Ness county teachers exam misconception, a Topeka woman bound for Germany to promote residence here, and insurance license probes over tornado coverage. Other items flag misused trust funds, near drownings, fake Western bravado, county debt standings, and curious local lore from several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallack
Atchison County
State Senate
Ness County
Kansas
Senate
Jerry Simpson
Leedy
Carrison
Plumb
California
Minnie Kischott
Topeka
Germany
Akansas
Coburn
McNall
H. M.magill
Chicago
Phenix Insurance Company
Blartford
Genn
Briphar
Shawnee County
Dalton Rebers
Wichita Eagle
Butler
Crawford
Gove
Harvey
Jefferson
Labette
Nemaha
l’Ottawatomie
Woodson
Scott County
Kansas School Fund
Stryker
Brown County
Henry Baker
Nathan Gross
Newton
Haskell County
Jesse C. Crall
Atchison
J. C. Crall
Jim Dobbs
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company
The
Globe
Mary Alice
Marie Alicia
Mary Alois
Suen
Marion Alyce
Dc. V. Kinney
Northwest Kansas Editorial Association
Colby
Central Branch
Missouri Pacific
Burnette
Wellington
Jointburg
Fredonia
Santa Fe Route Excursions to Nashville Return
Nashville excursion via Santa F Route offered weekly with Tuesday departures. Tickets good for twenty days to return. travel via Union Pacific contacts for sale and schedule details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Fenn
Union Pacific
Leavenworth Official Marries During Milestone Anniversary
Mr. I. D. Stewart head book-keeper at the Leavenworth soldiers' Home wed Miss Mary Charlton daughter of Judge John Charlton on Tuesday, a ceremony held on the 50th wedding anniversary. Also noted are unions of Miss Homolka and Mr. Keho in Wilson, Fort Myers appoints postmistress Olive E. Stout who earlier led Jackson County schools, and remarks on Memorial Day by Theodosius Botkin. Major Hood outfits Emporia militia with new uniforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emporia
Promise City Ex Postmaster Praises Mystic Cure
YF Anthony, former postmaster of Promise City Iowa, reports buying a bottle of Mystic Cure for rheumatism and says two doses did more good than any medicine he has used. The product is sold by Barber Bros Druggists in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YF. Anthony
Promise City
Iowa
Barber Bros
Lawrence
Pocket Kodak Cameras Offered by Woodward Co
Woodward and Company advertise as sole agents for Pocket Kodak Cameras and supplies. The snippet lists prices and codes dated May 20, 1897, noting a selection of cigars as “the finest cigars for the money always in full supply.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward & Co
Kodak
Woodward’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ighest
Douglas County
Raymond’s Drug Store
University
Haskell Institute
Bismarck Grove
Soupey
Tonganexig
Price
Raymond
Brug
Congress
Bullene Shoe CO
Hub
Albach & Prehm’s
the Gazette
Harry Simmons
Mrs
Frank Hauber
Dunc Collins
CP. Miller
John McCurdy
A. A. Hultz
Marguerite Lewis
Robert Ice
T Cliuten
Orry Owen
Grant Township
Oscar E. Learnari, Jr
Douglas Suuay
B.C. Price
Holling
Mrs. A. W. Berger
Ollie Marshball
Sarah E. Rogers
C. C. St. John
Willow Springs
Ww. Skeet
North Side
Jack Johnson
L. Gabriel and
Gertrude E. Limbecker
Lawrence Aish Seavo
Ellis & Hobbs
Mary Alice Smith
Baldwin
E. H. Funsten
Henry Mohler
Echo
Mary McKinney
W. C. Porter
Kanwaka
F. Heim
Worden
Douglas County Horticultural Society
Wm. Brown
George Ford
Bast Orange
New Jersey
Overbrook Station
Overbrook Herald
F. P. Smith
E. F. Stanley
This City
O. G. Meritham
Baker
Joan Ghariten
Wakarusa
H. D. Whitman
Charles Starr
Louis Brown
Lillis
Pearl Pierson
Milo Emery
B. F. Smith
Daugherty Millinery
J. W. Daugherty
Gage Bros
L.C. Poehler
University Hall
Kansas City
Madame Genevra Johnston Bishop
America
Harris
D. H. Lewis
Sale
Abe Levys
Naow
R. 8. Saunders
Emma Gathers
Weaver's
Kemler
Bucklen
State OF
Hood
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell, Maas
Cuba
Europe
Grover Cleveland
Rence
Santa F
Stewart-Charlton
Avery Sta
Evais
Woodward's
Dr. Simmons
Gideon
Gazette Office
Gav. W. Markey
Ohio Street
Berkley
Ohio St
T. Field
C. J. Eriksen
Mass
Lawrence Local Markets
Ous
Lawre
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!