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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1886
Page
1
F.F. Mettner promotes family portraits as ideal Christmas gifts highlighting Heliochromes for permanence and quality. The Riverside Studio offers first class photographic work with careful craftsmanship at fair prices and invites public examination of the new capabilities.
The city saw visitors from Ottawa Baldwin and Leavenworth and reports of teachers, preachers and officials in town. Emma Abbott’s Faust performance at the opera house drew a crowded, rave-worthy Lawrence audience with strong supporting roles and a standout chorus.
A lively holiday sale calls shoppers to C Buce & Son offering dress goods cloaks hosiery linens and coal discounts. The ad promises best screened jump coal and a wide array of gifts including silk handkerchiefs mufflers shopping bags towels and other items for Christmas. Telephone access noted for orders.
The column rails at accusations against Mr. Bowersock over water works choices and river drift enforcement, alleging punitive acts like opening head gates to manipulate ice and power. It questions public slander and calls for common sense amid factional politics, then shifts to local ads for silk goods, a job listing, horse and heifer sale, and leather satchels and bags.
In Adams vs Paige tried in Kansas 1853 a judge sympathetic to the squatter Paige presided. During cross examination Britt the defense lawyer berated Adams while the judge forced answers. Ten jurors wanted to side with the court two dissented and the judge jailed them for thirty six hours.
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