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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1885
Page
2
The Lawrence Journal announces subscription prices for daily and weekly editions and notes address changes. It includes a lengthy editorial explaining Sunday issue makeup, the end of space writing, and a defense of reporting on vice in Pal Mall Gazette style.
Literary Notes from The Century Co mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Garrison mob with August Century items on William Lloyd Garrison’s father and early life. T W Higginson offers a prefatory essay on anti slavery activists and a frontispiece portrait. other portraits and illustrations accompany the text. War Papers in August Century promise Mrs Burton Harrison’s anecdotal “A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War” and Henry Eckford’s “Camp Grindstone” on the St Lawrence, tied to The American Canoeing Association.
Dutch bulb expert describes soil, planting, and rotation methods for tulips hyacinths and crocuses in Holland. He explains sandy soil, heavy fertilizing, multi year growth cycles and ground rest. outlines prices wages and village life while contrasting American labor wages and farming values.
In rural New Yorker slang two farmers discuss buying artist materials. One relishes spending for his daughter Mary who admires fine pictures and is a skilled cook, while the other grimly accepts paying for lessons and home decor as he contemplates their means and pride.
The Domingue family young ladies and Miss Margaret Blain ride well bred chestnuts with a groom through countryside near Cabin John and Tenallytown. Miss Blaine stands out as fearless in the saddle, admired attire and equipage drawing comment from peers as they chase fashion and outdoor society on English riding lines.
The article notes sixteen reef species in America with dry wood that sinks. The heaviest is black ironwood in southern Florida, over 30 percent heavier than water. Other known sinking woods include lignum vitae and mangrove, with a small oak in the mountains of Texas, southern New Mexico, Arizona, and toward the Colorado desert at 5,000 to 10,000 feet.
The article extols meat and dairy for nervous people and warns vegetable diets weaken nerves. It notes eating plenty of bread butter and two quarts of milk daily aids overworked individuals. It also mentions Lee Wallace Ross training on the Harlem River for a forthcoming race with Beach of England and details his shell apparatus.
Jim Pace, a 72 year old veteran railman, recounts how the phantom figure of Dave Griffin saved the old engine Six on a night of flood and fog. Pace claims Six was indestructible until a fatal trestle failure revealed the ghostly aid that kept the train from disaster.
Senator Jones cites a Nevada mining town tale where a Yale graduate and a one eyed cheater clash at a saloon poker game. After proposing a square game with oysters and champagne, the group vows to shoot any cheater, and the one eyed man ends up dead broke at dawn.
A tale links precision to success from a Cincinnati judge and a carpenter to Daniel Webster. The judge hires a neat fence builder, pays a dollar and a half, yet earns a rich contractor later for genuine quality. Webster’s Boston trip and courtroom mastery show that thorough preparation pays in fame and money. A Wise note stresses wisdom in details and method for lasting prosperity.
The Waldensian Church, oldest Separatist church in Europe, and the Free Church of Italy have agreed on a basis of union. If ratified next autumn they will form the Evangelical Church of Italy, uniting two historic Protestant traditions after years of trial and freedom under the Italian Kingdom.
Local merchants announce a brief sale on canned goods and dried fruits to clear inventory before summer. Prices by the can are advertised as below cost as part of a closeout effort to reduce stock.
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