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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1887
Page
3
A jumble of social calendar items from Lawrence details parties at Steinbers lawn and K P socials, visits by University groups, and numerous notices. The text mentions the Lawrenc e prohibition club meeting, social crowds of pretty girls, and local ads about goods, bridge games, and entertainments.
A collage of items notes indecipherable text, arrests, public notices, theater ads, and county news. It mentions a sheriff parade through town with a prisoner, a wedding license mishap, a Presbytery ordination, a charity lecture, and the play Skipped by the Light of the Moon at the opera house.
Go East via the Bee Line with through cars on Lake Shore New York Central and Albany routes. Trains depart St Louis daily at 5 a m 6 30 p m and 7 7 d a m reaching Boston by 10 70 a m and connecting to all eastern trains. Through car service also runs to Cincinnati with luxurious Pullman sleepers on the evening train.
A lengthy city ordinance from Lawrence details licensure for merchants grocers and grocers stock based on stock value and duration plus annual license taxes for peddlers and street traders. It covers license fees penalties and enforcement provisions including actions against nonlicensed sellers and agency duties for assessors and clerks.
A local ad notes a new carpet supplier expanding to meet short notice work with a large line. It also advertises three Kansas history volumes, including Redpath and Hinton 1859 works, praise for authors, and a casual local sale of heavy farm equipment. The piece closes with liquor and wine wholesale offerings for private families and nationwide shipping.
The Chicago Milwaukee and Arkansas surveying party nears the city as survey work proceeds. Charles Williams, a Santa Fe collector, is in town after a western division transfer. Kansas Central plans timetable changes to aid Clay Center Holton and other connections with Atchison and Topeka. An Atchison Topeka Santa Fe grading crew arrived from the southwest and camps near the old fair grounds awaiting orders to start the plug line from Atchison to St Joe, delayed by a dispute over swamp land near St Joe stockyards. A rumor suggests Missouri Pacific may consolidate with Vandalla, though the source admits possible miscommunication. Gladstone is atop agsly and likely to pay up.
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