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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1886
Page
4
The Daily Journal reports Brakeman Wells has been arrested on the charge of causing the Rio Wisconsin wreck. The article mentions a mix of medical nostrums, political notes, and local incidents, including a Pittsburgh resolution against instrumental music.
Cor. Providence Journal recounts Webster’s birthplace in Salisbury New Hampshire, its move to Franklin, and the Webster homestead and elm planted in 1768. It details the estate’s history, the L wing, and rooms kept in former condition including the dining room parlor and the graveyard that inspired his later actions.
The Corinth Canal work advances with about one thousand workers. Excavation totals reach twelve million cubic feet with two and a half million removed so far. Planned depth is twenty six feet and surface width twenty six feet. at the ends water width expands to three times that size. Depth at each end reaches seventeen feet and the coast is expected to be completed in about five years.
An 1880s advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best for sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and two cent price. The text also notes Kansas sent thirty delegates to a anti liquor convention in Chicago.
A noisy church concert scene unfolds with a young couple in the audience. Remarks about hats, seating, and a celebrated pianist Signor Streesto mix with chatter about marriages, Irving, and a dramatic finale by W. Macready Higurin as the crowd reacts with laughter and applause.
Fragmented medical and social notes discuss marriage chances across ages, with referenced percentages and figures. The text mentions lifelike and statistical ideas about dating, reproduction, and skeletal references, concluding with health month commentary.
A card claims a free remedy for nervous weakness and early decay discovered by a missionary in South America. It asks readers to send a self addressed envelope to the Rev. Fosrii Tinman at Staten Island 7 New York City for the cure.
Miss Heaven confirmed on Lunity Island by the visiting Bishop of Exeter. Samuel B. McCullach, once missing in Wheating West Virginia, found in Montana posing as Samuel Brown. A hired girl strike risk noted for George Gould’s breakfasts. Debts paid by D. Taylor as Penn Railroad treasurer. record thirteen million dollar check. Captain Lancaster of Belfast decorated by the Golden Dragon. An escape from Pratt mines in Alabama via a wire rope and iron door. American humor markets decline as chestnut jokes replace fresh wit. Nellie Nevada Moore of Swissvale dresses in male attire for comfort. Two Federal veterans marry Virginia ladies near Appomattox, close to Lee’s surrender site.
Fragmentary promotional text shows a disjointed message mentioning Hearne & Co New York and unclear references to investments and music. The readable bits provide no coherent event, date, or concrete offer to summarize.
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