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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1887
Page
8
A fragmented rail timetable for the Kansas Railway lines appears with names and routes. Also included are social notes about the Palmquist Larsson marriage in Topeka, travel to California by L. Baker and wife, Julia Ecke heading west, and various medical and theatre advertisements.
An Etruscan temple ruin near Rome yields terra cotta figures mosaics murals and fragments of a temple god statue. The text notes ancient wonders and planetary hieroglyphics linked to metals, plus references to Minoan wood and early rope making traditions. It also mentions Cabaza de Vaca and Santa Fe settlement history.
A humorous, antiquated survey of women across nations and roles. It notes Dutch maids spotless kitchens, Turkish smokers, Alaskan girls maturing young, English ladies and teeth, German sewing workers' hardships, French wives guiding domestic dining, and French women's perpetual elegance and feminine charm.
The Sued canal cost less than 100 million while Panama has risen to 275 million and may fail. Bavarian dog law curbs hydrophobia with only three deaths in seven years among six million. Heligoland gambling attempt halted by Governor, with participants cremated. China to send scholars abroad as correspondents with fixed salaries to study nations for nobility. Lady Li distributes alms at foreign hospital in Tien-Tsin as crowds watch. dignitaries remark on the scene.
A Topeka plasterer George E Crank died after a fall from a second story. The mayor enforces the Sunday law. A Shawnee County petition seeks a county high school. A Wyandotte man died after being run over on a Missouri Pacific train. A Topeka man vanished after writing about the Missouri River. Grand Lodge and LO C F reports, new officers elected. Local elections notes, railroad bridge incident, and other state items like salt well progress, real estate taxation ruling, cattle growers convention, and suffrage gathering. Nine or more named places, people and organizations appear, reflecting broad state news.
Laborers attacked the Tontine mine at Bessemer Wisconsin to secure 94000 claims amid broader reports of yellow fever in Tampa Florida, fires and wrecks in New York and Pittsburgh, riots at Gibraltar, and political tensions in Europe including German Czar meetings denied and expulsions from France.
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