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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1887
Page
4
Contents show proposals for supplies at state penitentiary and fire department needs, plus many ads. Barber Bros drug store promotes Kemp’s products, Dr King’s remedies, Baby carriages, and a free trial bottle offer, with testimonials and various health cures.
A remarkable life story follows Peggy a mysterious English heiress who becomes Crazy Peggy a famed spy during the Crimean War and later in the American Civil War. She infiltrates prisons uses disguises and shares escape plans with her betrothed turning war zones into chessboards.
A damaged ad from Barber Bros sells Remp’s Balsam claiming relief for throat and lung issues. The misspelled text promotes craw fishing superiority and urges readers to call for a bottle with a trial size free. Price listed as 10 cards for $1.00.
A historical medical claim promotes a teething remedy for children praised by a top female physician. It asserts forty years of use with widespread success relieving pain and various ailments, including dysentery, diarrhoea, and wind-cold. Sold at 25 cents per bottle.
Jerry Glathart advertises a sale of buggies open buggies carts double seated single seated road carts with large quantities and low prices. The sale is at 723 Massachusetts street with emphasis on reasonable terms and good stock.
In Deadwood Dak a rough tale describes George Kook and companions mining the Black Hills. Dick Warner loses a scalp to Sioux while Dick and Henry Nichols flee a charging party, Renny shoots, Dick survives with scalp gone, later recounts the brutal encounter and perilous trek. The report notes King basin rainfall and Ohio Democrats facing Boerne in state ticket talks.
L. 8 S. Pierce offers loose and baled hay and all kinds of feed wood and coal at 7 West parts of Vermont street north of County Orders filled promptly by telephone 127 local ad continuation.
A grandfather, an uncle, and a aunt of four year old Marie Josephine Norroy were tried for a slow brutal murder. Witnesses described repeated beatings, confinement, and neglect ending in suffocation. The Norroy family received long terms of penal servitude for their crimes.
A well known athlete criticizes popular health rules and diet theories. He argues food suitability depends on constitution and lists easily digested items versus hard to digest ones, then advises open air exercise, temperance, wholesome food, ample sleep and a sound conscience.
A fragmented excerpt shows a butcher boy interacting with a woman praising prompt meat delivery. The exchange includes a joke line about a nickel and the boy’s quick service as the scene hints at a chaotic moment before the meat begins to smell.
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