Furnished rooms and goods advertised in Gazette ads
The notice sheet lists Palmer and Griffin selling marble white lime and wood coal lime, and Gee Yanes & Co advertising canes. Bigelow’s drug store offers mixed paints white lead and oil, Oak leather goods, and homoeopathic medicines. Furnished rooms for rent near the University with board or without, inquiries at The Gazette office. Reports include residents visiting towns, ex-senator Ross’s visit, and S T Field book store details at 99 Mass Street Lawrence Kas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bigelow’s
S. T. Field
Bates & Field
T. Field
Mass
Street
Lawrence
Kas
Dress goods offer from Gro. Axnes Co
In a trade promotion Gro. Axnes & Co. offers free dress patterns from Butterick's catalogue to every customer purchasing a dress valued at $3 or more. The patterns enable customers to sew their own dresses in the latest style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butterick
Gro
Xnes & Co
Geo. Innes & Co
Hereford bulls and winter cloaks offered by merchants
Offer to Stockraisers notes Hereford bulls scarce in America and contracts to take calves at six months old with Oliver & Shockey. Also promotes a cloak sale listing various ladies and children's garments with prices, and adds other local ads including baking powder, saddles, harness, and poultry offerings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Oliver & Shockey
Lawrence House
Newmarket
StzrmvserGe Bros
Lawrence Bazaar Promotes Subscriptions and Local Ads
A busy page urges readers to renew subscriptions, register again if moved, and buy from Geo Innes Co and S T Field at 99 Massachusetts Street. It promotes calendars, wallpaper, stoves, fencing, and groceries, with notices of political tickets and a surprise party for Maj A D Sears before his Leadsville mining trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. T. Field
Bates & Field
Massachusetts Street
Lawrence
A. D. Sears
West Lawrence
Maj. Sears
Leadville
Kansas
Colorado
Rewards for Verses in New Testament Sought by November 10 1883
Ratledge's Monthly offers a prize of 20 dollars for the person who can state how many verses in the New Testament contain only three words each. Entries due November 10 1883 with 50 cents in silver. If multiple correct answers, prize shared and winner published November 15 1883 with December issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible Prine
Ratledge
Address Pee Publishing Company
Easton, A
North Lawrence Notes recounts local sightings and events
J W Cryder of Chillicothe stayed near Mud creek while seeking rental options. Exhumation of Nelson Barrett near Reno, Indiana, moved to Eden relatives. J Wilson of Grant received a grain mill with steam cooking, likely unique in Douglas county. Thieves tried to steal a buggy wheel near the city limits and fled. Mrs K Rush’s residence caught fire from a defective flue, causing about 40 cents in damage. W Russell plans to bring sixty head of thoroughbred short-horn cattle to ex-Gov Robinson’s farm. improvements in swine also planned. An advertisement promotes Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic for biliousness, dyspepsia, and malaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Cryder
Chillicothe
Ohio
W. P. Kitzmiller
Mud Creek
Mr. C
Nelson Barrett
W. J. Barber
Reno
Eden
Hancock County
Indiana
J. Wilson
Grant
Douglas County
M. Griffel
Corporation Limits
Robinson
Cummings Celebrate Silver Wedding Anniversary
Last Saturday Oct 20 neighbors recall the crystal wedding of Mr. and Mrs. J C Cummings. Invitations went out for 3 pm with guests arriving early and being warmly received. The table boasted Kansas luxuries and the couple’s fine cook, Mrs C, aided by Rose of Lecompton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Cummings
Kansas
Positive Cure Promises Relief From Coughs and Colds
Our blessings are not appreciated until we are deprived of them. A hacking cough or lung disease troubles many, but Dr. Bigelow's Positive Cure is advertised as quickly and permanently removing such ailments. Trial bottles are free at Barber Bros. Dr. Carl Neumann has set up an office on Massachusetts Street in the former Hollingbery room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Dr. Johnston
Superior
Nebraska
A. P. Conant
Kanwaka Township
Ross
Gazette Office
Thos. King
Sheldon C. Russell
King
J. F. Morgan
Boston
South Framingham
Mase
Franklin Pierce
D. 5. Long
Dr. Dick
John Sullivan
Carl Neumann
Massachusetts Street
George Hollingbery
Griggs Glycerine Salve touted as universal healer
An advertisement proclaims Griggs Glycerine Salve as the best on earth for cuts, bruises, burns, wounds, and all skin sores. It guarantees cures for piles and tetter, promises satisfaction or money back, and offers the product for 25 cents through Barber Bros.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barber Bros
Malaria season message and horse theft notice
At Last the season of malaria comes upon us. The remedy is Woodward's Ague Cure priced at 50 cents. Strayed or Stolen: a bay colt, five months old, white hind foot, small white star, leather head halter, draw strap missing. A liberal reward offered for return or information. D. McMillan, North Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. McMilien
North
Lawrence
Local Advertisements for Heaters and Tobacco
For hard and soft coal heaters and squate stoves guaranteed to give satisfaction. Call Willey & Savage at 104 Massachusetts. Plenty of good lime at Palmer & Griffin's. Best brands of smoking tobacco at F. W. Wieian's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer & Griffin's
May Lee
Virginia Smoking Tobacco
F. W. Wieman’s
Palmer & Griffin’s
Willey & Savage’s
Massachusetts Street
Willey & Savage
F. W. Wieian’s
Pianoforte request and political meeting notice in 1853
Professor Tourjee of the New England Conservatory asks Ivers & Pond in September 1853 to supply twenty pianos after praising last year’s fifty. W W Fluke & Son distribute the pianos in Lawrence. A county committee meeting on tax payer matters is set for October 27, 1853, at 11 a.m. near the Gaze Ette office in Douglas County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas County
Kansas
Thomas Seetin
Lawrence
People’s County Committee
Gaze Ette
Douglas County Bank
T. J. Pereeson
W. J. New
German baking powder price report and stock market
Wednesday Oct 24 market roundup lists Shippers at 4.50 to 4.75 in stock market figures, butchers at 4.00 to 4.25, fat cows 3.00 to 3.25, stockers and feeders 3.50 to 4.00, hogs 1.00 to 4.10, and sheep 3.00 to 3.25 in ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lawrence Markets Prices From Lawrence October 24
Lawrence markets report prices for grain feed vegetables fruits and poultry on Wednesday October 24 corrected by W H Pendleton Prices include shorts rye oats new oats potatoes turnips carrots cabbage beets parsnips onions and various poultry including hens ducks geese and chickens with per bushel or per pound figures and notes on quantities and quality, reflecting market activity in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary Rose
Hubbard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Quincy
Gee. Yanes & Co
Bigelow’s Drug Store
Palmer & Griffin
Methodist Church
Leavenworth, and Jewett & Co’s
Buffalo
F. G. Alford’s
Gazette
Wu. H
Kesting
The
Bargain House
Apitz
S. T. Field's
Maas
F. G. Alford
Rhode Island Street
River
J. D. Smith
Eldridge House
B. W. Woodward
Joel White
People’s Movement
People’s
T. Field's
John Watts
Wm. Draper
Luther
Woodward
Wm. W. Asher
S. H. Carmean
Prohibition
Joseph E. Riggs
North Lawrence
Western Steel Fence Company
Geo. Innes & Co’s
Cloak and Dolman
Raglans
Lawence
Wichita, Kas
Muscatine
Iowa
C. A. Pease & Son
Samuel Seetin
French Academy of Medicine
Hotel Dieu
Paris
American Agency
Ivers & Pond Pianos
Stock Market
Lawrence Markets
Linwood
Inwood, Leavenworth Co
Kans
U.P. Ray
Kansas City
A. Cruickshank
Scotland
Rose OF Sharons
Barea Victor
Cruickshank
W. A. Harris
Lawrence. Kas
Farin Joiaa Station
Steinberg & Bro
Massachusetts St
Japan
West
Stanford, Bayless & Company
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