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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1885
Page
2
The Lawrence Kansas paper reprints an editorials criticizing officials who starve newspapers and timid leaders in whisky trade towns plan to cloud up. The piece urges readers to watch the new law aimed at saloons and notes widespread opinion that the saloons must go.
The piece notes Candlemas day and a predicted six weeks of winter, then praises the Topeka Flambeau Club fireworks shown during Washington inauguration festivities. It calls the display splendid and marks Kansas as part of the national scene, referencing historical episodes in Lawrence and Democratic administrations.
A 1813 Old Bailey tale recounts the marchioness of Sligo offering counsel to Byron’s impulsive son. The marquis was convicted, fined £5,000, and jailed for four months in Newgate. The judge accepted the plea, the marchioness bribed by a court note, and the couple later settled with a confidant lecture schedule.
A Philadelphia Call quip runs that Kochs theory on cholera boiling is linked to married men's immunity as wives joke about hot water. The Dublin Irishman notes Ireland's Municipal Franchise requires three years occupancy of a property with proper rateable value before voting rights.
The article praises physical activities for women such as rowing gymnastics ice skating riding and walking and notes fashionable outfits enhance form. It highlights New York ladies enjoying horseback riding in Central Park despite cold weather and promotes attractive riding and roller skating costumes designed by Redfern of New York.
The article details the new elastic well cloth riding habit with knitted texture, close fit, heavy fabric, and short skirt. It describes the basque skirt and trousers combination, breeches styles, knee-high riding boots in patent leather, and a fashionable woman in a breeches ensemble. It notes popularity among young ladies in New York and compliments the hat and overall outfit.
A historic column describes a roller skating costume in cunky red cloth with gilt braid trimming a slim close fitting basque and matching turban muff and sleeves. It notes officers mess buttons and spring trim, then shifts to satire on fashion and dieting by a New York physician.
A medical critique warns of the dangers of aromatic smelling bottles used by women, causing headaches and nerve damage. Drapery trends favor flat collars, metallic trims in gold silver and steel tissues, and bold color pairings. Spring street fashion highlights include bottle green, dusky reds, and the Princess of Wales riding on the opposite side.
A fragment filled with period style prose and ad copy. It extols Parker's Tonic for general debility and Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, touts Red Clever Tonic for bilious liver and dyspepsia, praises Parker's Hair Balsam for gray hair, and promotes Eclectric Bitters as a blood purifier and liver remedy with guaranteed satisfaction. Barber Bros sells these remedies at various prices.
A reader reports trying seven medical approaches without relief from weakness of the bowels and diarrhea and credits Parker's Tonic as a complete remedy and preventive. Endorsements come from H. L. Titus of Bennington and J. W. Wells, a prominent druggist of New York City. Also noted is a Santa Barbara exhibit of a one pound fourteen ounce ovioh and a remark on the spread of Chinese lepers in Portland, Oregon.
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