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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1891
Page
2
Fragmented text shows residents visiting relatives, property sales, and letters to readers. It mentions Mrs Geo Davie, Avanénd, Rutler in Canada, and a birth of a fine boy. References to a destruction by fire and a Lincoln Nebr resident visiting on his way home. The passage hints at events like harvest, expos, races, and pageants but lacks full context.
Fragmented OCR text mentions near daily rainfall in Wan and Wellsville, a renewal subscription, and a college grant. Referenced names include Angus and Lawtenge, with unclear dates and locations, making precise details uncertain.
Readable fragments show a local proceedings item with names and a date, referencing a panel or board and a decision outcome. The brief items imply a public notice or agenda entry, with officials named and a specific action described.
The Record recounts the Lawrence sting on counterfeiters led by Sheriff Clarke. George Neel and Ellen Wilson are jailed after a Kansas City bust, with Chitwood held in Lawrence for processing the fake coins and plating work. The case heads to U.S. court in Topeka with Chitwood’s and Neel’s preliminary exams set.
A local ad highlights bargains on muslins, ginghams, prints, tickings, denims and related fabrics enticing customers to visit the store for selections.
A miscellany including Woodwards glass ads and a sash ventiler push. Lecturers in Leavenworth County organize a County Lecture Bureau at Fairmount to align with the First Congressional District Alliance. Hog cholera remedy Bragidan's hog cholera specific touted as reducing losses and boosting weight. A Kansas marriage reported: Raymond's Drug Store couple E B Butler and Miss Adams Jolson wed in Kanwaka township.
Various briefs report Dr M Summerfield returning from Europe trip and birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs Edward Forth of Wakarusa. Notes mention Miss Minnie Innes heading to Boston for music study, Innes traveling for dry goods in New York and Boston, Mrs Steinverg g and daughter Frat ens visiting Joplin, and divorce petition filed by Mattha Rogers. Also recorded are a basket of apples from Jas Hurd, a call by Bee James White, a bishop resigning from the Baptist church and moving to Kansas City, a basket meeting at Kennedy Valley led by Rev Orrick, and travel home reports from Win Valentine and Win Skeet with local business and fair displays noted.
The Cloak department will open on Saturday September 19. Customers are invited to browse the new collection and receive first choice on arrival.
Reports from Leavenworth and Douglas counties describe a People's Party convention in Tonganoxie with ticket nominations for sheriff and other offices. Prohibitionists plan a Lawrenc e mass convention to nominate a county ticket. A letter urges electing reform-minded candidates and questions party loyalty, favoring noncareer officials and urging voter input.
A fragmented poemry fragment opens with Athens and Alashit as the violet crown City, then shifts to a harsh wartime scene in Morris Park stables. A jockey, worn by exhausting training, endures hunger thirst and cruel days, ending with a grim ride and vivid, pained images.
A collage of royal gossip and oddities notes earnings of czars and empresses, marriages in Europe, aging of Queen Victoria’s line, and Princess Clotilda’s sorrows. It mentions the Chinese emperor’s court wives, Danish royalty, and a Dutch fable about a waiter and customers in New York.
Advertises payment in cash for spring chickens hens ducks eggs onions potatoes apples. Seeks high market price buyers for farm produce.
The notice promotes a four year subscription plan with payments divided into monthly installments. It targets readers of W H Pendleton and invites signups through the publisher’s office.
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