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Plans and additions at Haskell school building
In 1900 plans are ready for a ten room addition to the Haskell school, a 40 by 110 foot laundry building and a 40 by 78 foot shop building all stone. Construction to start when spring opens. Also quarantines for scarlet fever on Tennessee street, and professor H P Cady summoned as expert witness in a liquor case in Olathe after testing hop tea. California Santa Fe travel heavy with scarce sleepers. ADT installs messenger box system in Lawrence with 707 Massachusetts street office. Western Union manager oversees uniformed messengers. Two city prisoners escaped from the rock pile. one recaptured.
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Lawrence Daily Journal
Haskell
Charles M. Sharpe
Tennessee Street
H. P. Cady
Olathe
California
Santa Fe
American District Telegraph Company
Massachusetts Street
Western Union Telegraph Company
Perry
Western Union
American District Telegraph
West
Lawrence
Rock Pile