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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1887
Page
4
Proposals will be received at the State Penitentiary for supplies. Bids must be addressed to the War Lazsing, care of the Warden, with full information circulars provided. Also notes on local ads and advertisements appear in this issue, including Kemp's Sarsaparilla and barber shop promotions.
Eliza St. Parker summarizes bread making for home cooks, stressing quality ingredients and careful technique. She covers yeast importance, sponge prep, mixing, kneading, oven heat control, and testing doneness to ensure light texture and good crust.
A rural columnist urges farmers to improve local roads and fences. He argues road quality reflects community pride and profit, urging use of teams and tools to fill swamps, remove obstacles, trim bushes, and houseloads to elect a capable road-master, stressing cooperation.
An ad promotes Dr King s New Dracuve for consumption coughs and colds with a limited time free trial bottle. It urges those with throat chest or lung trouble to call Barber Bros Drug Store and obtain a trial or full bottle Kemp s Balsam is advertised for the throat and lungs at 0c and $1.00 while mentioning local population and health claims.
A period piece notes that appetite and digestion suffer seasonally from blood quality and digestive weakness. Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised as a tonic to strengthen the system, with urging to start taking it now. The snippet also mentions a planned $100,000 woolen mill in Arkansas City and Iowa's 1687 corn yield of 238,102,000 bushels.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt warns that stays crush chest muscles and stunt growth, causing height loss and weakened health. It argues stiff decorative corsets deform the body, impede movement, and damage beauty, urging lighter, elastic undergarments to support posture.
An early advertisement touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medics Discovery as a universal cure for diseases and skin issues including blotches pimples eruptions tetter and ulcers. It mentions William K Vanderbilt and companions beginning a world tour of watches and notes Beloit area selling at $1Gy per sere.
London’s cat meat trade employs hundreds of workers feeding and selling horse and other meat to the metropolis. Wag the cats meat man describes routes, profits, and methods, noting horse slaughterers, foreign meat, and the need to disguise meat to satisfy feline tastes.
A Sunday school memory ends with a child mixing biblical detail with frontier slang. Little Allie recalls the tale of Joseph and his brethren, and when asked what Pharaoh did for them she blurts out a humorous misstatement that he made them cowboys.
A historical advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as an effective remedy for rheumatism by correcting blood acidity and purifying the system. It includes patient testimonials from W F Woon and H T Baxcom, plus an offer for a cure book and a $1 invoice for 100 doses.
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