22 Jul 1883
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1883
Page
1
Levis Doane and Company advertise a variety of near Lawrence farms, stock farms, and family residences. Descriptions cover 40 to 160 acre properties with cultivateable land, timber, water, outbuildings, and multiple houses. Prices run from $1,250 to $12,000 with easy terms and immediate possession offered for select parcels near town and rail lines.
NY money market shows easy 802 per cent with prime mercantile paper weak. Bonds and stocks listed include United States Honda, Denver & Rio Grande, Missouri Pacific, Northern Pacific, New York Central, and others with fluctuating bids and asks. Kansas City produce market reports slow flour market and varying price levels. heat and freight figures provided. barley and other commodities show mixed activity with dated notes.
Live Stock Indicator lists cattle receipts at 2317 with steady market. steers 1006 to 1201 lbs sold around 4.00 to 5.00. Hog receipts 2089 with higher bid range up to 5.30. Sheep receipts 50 with market quiet. prime to choice lambs 4.15 to 4.60.
Market report from St Louis notes unsettled and lower wheat and steady meal bids with mixed commodity chatter. Treasury text shows gold coin and bullion holdings at $200 742 and silver dollars at $5 ? million along with certified notes and currency figures.
Governor's letter urges enforcement of Sunday license law. Danial Kerwin, vice president of the police commission, forwards the governor's appeal to the board. The letter will be discussed at the next regular meeting to decide action on Sunday restrictions.
A letter from Wu Connor, manager, states John McCullough has rapidly recovered since arriving in the east. Doctors expect full health, prompting renewed engagement plans for next season. He will depart August 1 with manager William Connor to begin at Denver, opening a tour. Money to loan on real estate security offered by Guernant & Stevens.
Chicago May 21 stockholders to consider a formulated plan for reorganizing the Union Iron and Steel Company. The firm owns large mills at Somib Chicago iron mills in Manomail range and other property valued at 3 000 000. Little Joker is the best smoking tobacco.
Cincinnati reports telegraph lines running at reduced force as strikers gain leverage. Memphis notes improved operations with seven operators, while New York outlines union committee plans and a crowded Caledonian Hall assembly. Washington and Providence observe varying duty rosters amid broader labor turmoil across Western Union and related firms.
Cairo reports nearly six hundred deaths in twenty four hours and official tallies underestimate fatalities. Damietta Mansurah Shonbar Samanoud Aboukir Gizeh Cairo and eight small villages report losses as authorities expand the cordon around Alexandria and keep quarantine in Fayoum. European victims noted among Cairo fatalities.
The excerpt describes the screw worm fly infesting Texas cattle with eggs deposited in wounds. Worms hatch within a day, bore into flesh, causing extreme pain and death. Cattle wander the plains, ranchers rely on risky remedies, and the pest spreads to Kansas through prevailing winds. A fatal human case in August 1882 is noted where facial symptoms led to severe discharge and tissue destruction.
A Kansas report describes gruesome cases where worms emerge from a dying man’s mouth and nostrils, devouring internal head tissue. In Salina a woman recovered after sixty five worms were removed, with earlier cases tied to catarrh and windward areas west of the Missouri. Doctors note treatment challenges and call for caution as worms may spread via the mucus lining with summer developments.
D & Hoadley Real Estate Agent promotes parcels near the city limits with favorable 12 month terms. Properties include a two story brick house of seven rooms, a half story frame home with six rooms, a large tract near Bismarck Grove, and a 160 acre farm ten miles from Lawrence offering 100 plowed acres at $20 per acre with 10 percent down and long payment at 7 percent. Also offers a mass street business, rental opportunities, and notes about advisable investment timing as Lawrence land rises in value. Also mentions Dr M H Hindstire case and other medical cure advertisements.
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