Lawrence Journal items mix weather and events from 1887
Lawrence, Bas August 4 1887. News notes include local visits by Mr Benjamin of Kanwaka seeking a teacher, ice orders, and a granddaughter’s arm injury. Reports on river water levels, a planned Republican county central committee meeting around September, and market references to Quantrell raid scrip. Also mentions births, fires, weather impacts on Michigan Wisconsin and Iowas distress, and social events. Kansas ranks high in the National Educational Association attendance with 940 teachers from Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Educational Association
J. H. Canfield
Chicago
Tiiinola
Towa
Kangss
Ranke
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio
Wisconsin
Kansas
Miss Multon Impresses Amusement Audience Nightly
Amusements note a strong Witber Comedy Company performance in Miss Multon with praised leads H. Mr. Markham as Maurice de la Tour and Genevieve Rodgers as Miss Multon. Banker's Daughter closes their city engagement as crowds are urged to attend at low admission prices. Justice Court reports list cases before Edgar J. P. with multiple notes and labor disputes. A theft incident describes two women and an older accomplice stealing goods from several stores, then leaving after settlement for one store. Allison seeks the presidential nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Multon
Witber Comedy Company
George Innes
R.D. Mason
M. Newmark
Geo
Innea
Williamstown
Deaths and disasters mix with city notes and weather
Gone to Rent. A Kansas City message reports the death of Mrs. Greanamyer aged sixty one after a long illness. She leaves a husband a daughter and three sons and will be buried in Mexico Mo. Also reports on meteors the Opera House scare a county teachers institute and garden city council electric light talks plus Wichita and Sedgwick county contrasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Administration
Topeka
I. W. Stone
Board of Trade
Lawrence
Kansas City
Greanamyer
Mrs. Greenamyer
Ita
Siso
County Institute
Graham
Douglas
Topeka News Briefs Highlight Railroad and City Notes
Santa Fe adds assistant superintendent at Ottawa with train and station duties. Hutchinson News says a 60 ton locomotive was wrecked near Manchester NH and moved toward Topeka. Plans to sink a 36 foot diameter well at Hutchinson with 38 workers. Officials probe a rail line crossing in McPherson County. Several city residents and visitors named. field crops poor at Bramarck. health and local business items. social notices and ads fill the rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Esterly
Santa Fe
T. J. Whisnand
Ottawa
Butchinson
Saya
Hutchinson News
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Lindsburg
McPherson County
Council Grove
Smoky Valley
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
National Educational Soctety
Abbotts
Western States Passenger Association
Atchison, Topeks & Santa Fe Railway
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville & Nashville
Decatur
Als
Massive Saturday Sale Promises Low Prices Across Departments
A chaotic ad style snippet shows a store urging record Saturday sales with promises of the lowest prices in every department. It touts a carpet department burst and talks of stock clearance, while mixing health ads and other unrelated notices about weather, a cyclone loss, and gas prices.
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Goloz Weat
Evening Mail
the Daily Journal
Union Pacific Railroad
Foesex
ANH
NASA W. de
Posta Railwat
T. Doaskuo
Atchison, Topeka &Santa FE Railroad
California Express
Colorado Express
Denver Express
Texas Express
Osage City Express
Atlantic Express
Eastern Express
J. F. Goonarp
Gan. Mansger
G. T. Nicherson
BK. Tanow
Southern Kansas Railway
Ham
Union Ticket Office
Mass
A. P. Rosa, Feta A. T
S. F. and
U. P
L. B. Keifer
Baldwin
Pendleton’s
Hazkell Institute
Journal
Pendleton's
Southern
Donnelly Bros
C. Bruce & Son
Mires
Lida W. Eldridge
Rhode Island Street
Benjamin
Kanwaka
Normal
The
Nations Bank
Quantrell
Republican County Central Committee
Etdemiller & Co
Massachusetts Street
Hammer
Spalding
North- Weaton
Michigan
Iews
Illinois
Lawrence Equal Suffrage Association
C. T. K. Prentice
Juvenal Co
Prentics
Lawrence, Bas
Lawrence Journal Co
Green Johnson
As Asult
Jacob Lash
George Holder
Cp Mo
J. BR. Supplee
Junction City
Merchants National Bank
W. C.A
Jefferson County
Kansas City, Lawrence and Nebraska
Iowa
Douglas County Bank
J.Q. Howland
Indiana Street
Miss Geneveive
Elfta
Iola Register
Justice Court
Edgar
J. P
Gale Sulky Arrow Co
Henry Mohma
German Insurance, Co
Abraham Gentry
German Insurance Co
Basse
Stagerv
Allison
Opera House
Bowersock
Formas Tlon Agio
Mr. Bowersock
Alex Shaw
Carter
J. G. Hackell
J. G. Haskell
Hassid
Bia
Garden City
Electtric
Wichita
Sedgwick County
HL. C. Whitehead
North Lawrence
Pons
Will Covey
Kaneas City
John Eldridge
J. H. Haight
Bramarck
North Side Mall
Bridge Atraet
INNES
Benedict
Theo. Gardner
Brownell
C. S. Gleed
Willams
T. D. Griffith
Lake Minnetonka
A.K. Lowe
Lecompton
Lena Rush
Greenburg
Kas
Price
Holling
Willi Kerr
W. W.nevison
Yesterdss
B.S. Gardner
Misa Minnie Petera
Mra
Chas
Duncan
Yeateldly
Colorado
Filer and
Son
Oak Park
Iainois
Mamie Simpson
Topeks
Mias Klan
Marcella Howland
Fredonia
Fredonia To Visit Miss Beasts Root, Mrs. §. T. Fields Left For Dubuque
Kabowelier
New York
Europe
William Hunt
Seays
Waterloo
Minnie Baird
W. T. Kenyon
J. R. Kenyon
la Junta
Albuquerque
W. C. Martin
Nellie
Shep. Honnold
Olathe
Ida Honnold
Ed Rouselie
Western Union Telegraph Union
Alc
J. Arnold
Bila Cooper
James Troutman
Cooper
Ray
A. H. State
Wyoming
Canon City
Denver
Pierce Place
Sinite
Jon¢ly
Fila
Zion’s Herel
May
Stu
Tin
Tao
Tia
Brian
Earth
F. Herald
Mamma
God‘s Mercy Hallows
Marienne Heaton
Good Housekeeping
Yoaso
Japan
Dr. King
Barber Bro's
Greancantle
McLothier
GEO. Innes
Iyet
Pierce
Bisine
Depew
Great Britain
Bratt
Brett
South End
Cleveland
Tax Newton Teachers’ Institute
Millbrook
Foots
Indian Territory
Ponca Agency
C. H. Morris
Newark
Ark
Sayo
Luoga
Jenee Middlewart
C. H. Pebemscheid
John P. Seckmyer
Edward Shephard
Harrisburg
Sacklen's
Barber Bro‘s
Csatoria
Abs
Caatiria
Simmons Liver Regulator
Green
Lohmann
Holmes St
OPERA
A. R. Wilber
Comedy Company
Fanchon
Anata
Field & Harygia
John Charlton
Pre- Ofice
Sarah R. Casto
Showa
Kentucky Street
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