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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1883
Page
5
Thursday’s items include ads for Leis German baking powder and Palmer & Griffin lime, rooms for rent near the university, new canes at F W Wie man’s, paints and leather goods, homoeopathic medicines at Bigelow’s, and coal and lime from Palmer & Griffin. Personal notes cover visits, travels, and civic figures, with university notes sought by the Gazette.
A long block of notices and ads urges subscription payments with a plea for arrears settlement. Items include Willey & Savage stoves, fencing by Alford, Rhode Island street houses for rent, Lane University in Lecompton, patterns from Butterick, and a wool blanket sale. Also notes deaths, a G A R reunion plan, October primaries at a store, a hunting mishap near Capt Strong farm, and plans of the Gale Harrow Manufacturing reps moving to McPherson. The Republican county convention selects officers and nominates a slate with broad platform language.
A Douglas county Republican convention endorses enforcement of liquor laws amid claims of bad faith and boss influence. The issue follows reports of a man named John Sullivan dying after an incident on the Oskaloosa road. The Silver Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brooks is celebrated with flowers, gifts, and a banquet in Tennessee Street. Notices include fencing sale at F G Alford’s, cattle ads by Curver & Sweeney, a stray pony, and stock market prices for local livestock and hogs.
Lawrence market report corrected by W. H. Pendleton lists gran wheat rye corn oats feed hay and produce prices per unit. Includes eggs cheese honey green and dried fruits vegetables potatoes cabbage beets parsnips and poultry with prices for hens ducks fowls and chickens.
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