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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1885
Page
3
The notice lists departure and arrival times for Union Pacific, Emporia Railway, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, and Southern Kansas routes. It shows trains to Ottawa and stations south with times around 4:50 p.m. 10:45 a.m. and 4:04 p.m. Also includes agent names and general superintendent titles.
The text urges a lone path toward supreme success, emphasizing internal judgment over external approval. It counsels steadfast effort despite the belief that none can please everyone, and notes that enduring bitterness is part of the journey toward personal achievement.
United States Detective W. G. Bauer returns from Memphis revealing the counterfeiter Martin Ogle's intricate techniques. Bauer displays Ogle's tools, genuine split bills, and large $30,000 in counterfeit notes, noting Ogle's unprecedented precision and solo effort. Ogle produced nearly $190,000 in quality notes before capture, operating mostly at river points with plates intended for Cincinnati banks.
The Isle of Jersey covers under forty six square miles yet supports over 12 000 cattle and about 60 000 people. Jersey cows supply butter and milk, not beef, and the island’s small farms prosper with high land value. The Jersey dairy system sustains rich butter and milk production, with exports of 3600 head per year noted in a Bell's Messenger reference.
A Philadelphia Calf piece notes how after maturity the body declines with weaker imagination and memory, slower physical powers, and faded perception. It cites high infant mortality, life expectancy around 38, and differences between genders in skull capacity, muscle fatigue, and sensory acuity, contrasting phrenology’s view of female morality with intellectual sense.
The article discusses horse back shapes and draft fitness, arguing a downward spine curvature suits draft work. It notes high backs tire and thin flesh, while low backs maintain condition under harneas, with weight bearing tied to spinal curvature. Also mentions Indianapolis streetcar lines offering hot coffee to drivers and conductors.
The fragment touts Electric Bitters as the best blood purifier and universal cure, promising satisfaction or money back. It mentions Barber Bros selling bottles at fifty cents and claims relief from toothache fever and neuralgia, amid garbled phrasing.
A farmer writer argues farmers and their sons neglect reading standard books after long workdays. He warns habit dulls intellect, citing aging farmers who failed to cultivate their minds. The piece urges farmer boys to develop their talents for a richer life and future.
Chicago detective chief discusses the rise of expert hotel thieves who travel in pairs, their methods for breaking into rooms at first class hotels, and the tools they use. He notes education and appearance aid their criminal operate, and describes the routine from registration to early morning exits.
A reminiscence on old fashioned ways and devices that have vanished or diminished. Scenes include stone walls covered by moss, fence types from barb wire to rail fences, and the charm of hearth, pantry, and rustic life. The piece laments progress while praising enduring objects and memories. A second item notes Harrison Hahn of Wind Gap Pa and his two year old deaf girl who hears through her nose and mouth, then a jail break at St Augustine Florida with five inmates escaping.
The item recalls seasonal lines about summer as a distant new world for sailors of Columbus and notes a church message by Rey S P Lewis of the Eighth Street Baptist Church in Louis. It mentions a claim that Parker's Tonic aids debility. Joel W Kelsey of Toledo Ohio is reported to have been dangerously poisoned from court plaster on a fresh wound.
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