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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1897
Page
5
An Ohio inventor's flying machine, showcased to the patent office, crashed after a short trial on the F street porch. General Leggett recalled the episode as one of the rare Ohio ideas that failed to pan out.
In a Brooklyn Citizen item, Mr Smithers buys a new dress by using money from a mirror he salvaged from their past and secretly sends it to Marie for her birthday. The tale unfolds with the couple’s plans and a surprised, playful exchange.
Sheriff O C Moore will sell at public auction on September 18 1897 at the courthouse front door Lawrence Kansas to satisfy an order of sale in the matter of Daniel Myrick deceased. The property includes the north half of the northwest quarter and west half of the southwest quarter and the south fifty acres of the east half of the southwest quarter of section five and the southeast quarter of section six all in township 11 range 29 with all appurtenances January 1 1870. W C Spangler attorney for plaintiffs.
The notice announces April 1 to October 31 summer rates for European travel by steamship with tickets available in Lawrence at competitive prices. It directs travelers to Santa Fe agents for one way and round trip tickets and mentions Cook’s tours for vacation parties. It notes free education for deaf children at the Kansas School for the Deaf in Olathe and invites parent names for any non enrolled child via postal card. It also advertises a Kansas City round trip to Fairmount Park with Union Pacific, a local horse show by J. P. Rosa Eldridge and Dorie, and promotes Wiedenann’s ice-cold sodas.
The steamship Portland reached port at 3 am bringing thirteen miners from the Klondike. Total dust aboard is about 175000 dollars. Passengers include J Rowan Jim Bell Joe Goldsmith N W Powers W W Caldwell and others with varied fortunes. St Michael's reporter H N Stanley warns to stay out until spring and describes shelter labor and supply shortages amid reports of a great but uncertain gold strike.
The piece warns that supplies near the mines command six times Seattle prices and are snapped up quickly, risking actual starvation this winter. Grub scarcity last spring and high meat prices hint at severe shortages if the population remains.
In St Louis Missouri on August 27 Mrs Ida G Shirk files for divorce from Judge William J Shirk a former supreme court candidate alleging abuse jealousy and alleged occult manipulation. A Sedalia filing notes the judge was assaulted by his wife five days after their marriage and that she later threatened him with weapons.
A convention of forty to fifty delegates from nine states and one territory launched the new American party in St Louis Missouri. Colonel E H Sellers of Detroit was named chairman of a ten member national committee. Detroit will host the committee headquarters for the coming year as a platform of declarations was adopted.
Armour Packing company in Kansas City fills an order for forty cars of Kansas City mess beef for Japan’s army and navy. The shipment, possibly the largest beef order by a Kansas City house, totals 3 600 tierces of 350 pounds each, about 150000 pounds.
John B Edmunds once Fraker’s office boy and now a Kansas City youth is widely sought after in connection with the killing of Herbert H Kay near Pike's Peak. Dr Fraker, once tied to the insurance case, has provided information implying Edmunds’s guilt. Indiana bakers meanwhile cut loaf sizes amid flour shortages and rising prices.
The Times proclaims its role as a strong advocate for Western interests and the free silver cause. It touts editorial influence, national quote rates, and its status as a premier metropolitan paper in Missouri and the Midwest, inviting subscriptions for daily or twice weekly editions.
Gasoline stoves in all styles and prices from a few dollars up. The Dangler is advertised as the best gasoline stove on the market. Visit J. Eriksen at W446 Masa. Bt. for a display and options.
Send 12 cents in stamps to John Sebastian General Pass Agent for a slickest pack of playing cards postpaid. Orders for six packs secured by stamp or postal note with express charges. Aug. 24 dispatch notes an imperial trade decree sentencing nine Armenian massacre participants to life penal servitude in Tripoli and Barbary.
An OCR fragment touts Cascarete Candy Cathartic as a miraculous medical discovery. It claims to cleanse kidneys liver and bowels and cure ailments from colds to headaches fevers constipation and biliousness. It urges purchase of bottles at various prices guaranteed to cure.
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