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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1887
Page
2
Oct 6 to 10 brings Nat Goodwin and Broderick Opera Company performances at the opera house. The community reports sick residents, school and church events, property moves, marriages, foreclosures, thefts, and a fatal scaffolding accident. Several local families travel, work, or sell land as county teachers are hired and exams scheduled.
The Philadelphia Times reports marl deposits near New Jersey as rich near the surface and used for fertilizers. It describes fossil shells and odd bone fragments found in marl, noting widespread deposits and suggesting the region was once an ancient sea bed with remnants like heads and bones from prehistoric creatures.
The Springfield Republican correspondent describes Constantinople with many windows and a dog plague in Galata European streets. Fires threaten the wooden old city while European residents distrust Turkish police and hire night watchmen to patrol, striking the pavement to warn of burglars.
A colonial era taste essay describes the ideal Persian housewife as exact in accounts, capable in cooking and entertaining, nursing her husband, and even seeking another wife for him. The note then shifts to war pigeons, noting steps to establish military carrier services across Europe with subsidized private training facilities and rights to use pigeons in war.
Constantinople correspondent reports on dervishes in a square hall with a wooden gallery. Men in cloaks and turbans perform frenzied bodily contortions while a singer incites them and an emir appears to tread on the rheumatic. Dancing dervishes form circles and whirl in measured grace.
Johnston Beggs told a Chicago Times reporter that a grand jury three years ago believed at least twelve delegates took bribes in a railroad bill case but did not indict. He cited circumstantial evidence and careful concealment by bribers and lobbyists, noting courts require more than such proof for conviction.
Frank Pierce appeared at the morning review on the Battery in New York mounted on Black Warrior, a full blood charger owned by Maj. Merrill. The horse, then past 15 years old, was valued for faithful service with United States dragoons. Crowds lined Broadway as the procession moved toward Palace Square with the mayor and common council in attendance.
A London Truth postscript quotes a line asking if one can know their books with corns on and if they can wear a bonnet with bodies on. The phrase appears as a cryptic, era style inquiry referenced in a historical text.
A survey notes Protestant missions expanding in Persia and Japan, with United States church memberships and denominations tallied. It cites receipts by Bible Societies, church counts in Unitarian and Universalist groups, and Canadian Methodist reach including 1,010 ministers and 197,479 members.
A digest of world curiosities including a giant cherry tree in Oroville California, European medals from Vienna, tobacco heart among West Point cadets, monkeys opening oysters in South Burma, a failed tunnel under the English Channel feared for wartime routes, and a Georgia tale of accepting a twenty dollar gold coin after doubt.
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