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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1884
Page
4
A catalog of farms and properties for sale near Lawrence and Clinton, listing 235 to 940 acre tracts with house, timber, orchards, and water features. Prices range from 1,700 to 4,000 dollars with terms described as easy. Several properties are noted as adjoining or part of larger tracts with combined sale potential.
City property listings present a neat four room frame house with one lot in a good locality, rents at 3 percent or tenth, asking $600. Also a neat four room house with two fruit shade lots, $1100. A three room house in a good neighborhood rents for $9 monthly, $700. Additional four room frame with cellar and fruit trees, $1300. A four room with cellar and two good lots, $1,000. A two story eight room house with jar well and city water, fully repaired, priced at $16.
A 140 acre tract near Lawrence offers 60 acres cultivated with timber and a spring, priced at 4500. Fourteen acres near town priced at 1000. A cozy home on city lots lists at 1000 cash. Eight miles west of Lawrence yields a 8 acre farm at 2800. Additional homes and a 160 acre farm near Lawrence advertised with terms. Levi A. Doane & Co. handles inquiries.
A collection of short notes and личные notices recounts travel, visits, and small events. Names include Mrs Geo Banks, Miss Lulu Colin, Miss Belle Dix, Prof Kate Stephens, Judge Stephens, Sheriff Carmern, Hon T D Thacher, and J W Green. Also mentions B S Barteaux and Minnie returning from St John New Brunswick, and a sale of several personal items and a coal lamp. A brief health note references Mr F E Samuels cured of chilblains by St Jacoby.
The fragment reports a public challenge by E Andrews & Co to Royal Baking Powder Co over claims about Andrews Pearl Baking Powder containing alum and adulterants. It describes a test proposal in Milwaukee and Chicago with a $1000 stake, to be observed by a government chemist, plus a notice that the Royal Baking Powder Co did not accept the challenge. It also contains dense real estate listings for Lawrence with farms, homes, prices, and financing offers.
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