06 Sep 1897
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1897
Page
1
The Lawrence Daily Journal provides a brief note on local happenings with readable fragments including names and places mentioned in the page segment. Further details are unclear due to damaged text but a community focus remains evident.
Lawrence Kansas reports a county convention plan to select delegates for county and statewide nominees with the highest vote recipient becoming primary delegate. Primaries set for November 14 at usual polling places with ward allocations and officers listed. debates include free silver, insurance rate debates, and local political figures.
The letter by Hon W J Bryan in a St Louis paper sharply questions the wheat price rise and says silver and wheat can part company without dismay. It argues supply and demand govern prices, ridicules Bryan’s past statements, cites Kansas corn and wheat figures, and notes political reactions including Ingalls and Ed Madison. Kansas details and local quips follow.
An Alaska wildlife portrait describes polar brown and grizzly bears with range from St Matthews to Arctic Ocean. It notes polar bears swim long distances, brown bears as riverbank roadmakers, and grizzlies near Mount St Elias feared by natives. It blends hunting notes with cautionary warnings about danger and superstition, and adds unrelated health and product ads.
Advice on pig mange treatment using sulfur mixtures and internal remedies, plus cautions on proper application and sanitation. Also discusses humane market practices, horse trading myths, ewe and lamb care, pruning and bleeding methods, and a proposal for a central statistics bureau to track live stock demand.
A New York station bulletin compares alfalfa with corn noting alfalfa’s higher protein content and superior palatability for farm animals. It details yields from five crops per acre and the crop’s broad spread from western Asia to the Americas, plus discussion on riding plows and a forthcoming Omaha Exposition with irrigation displays and stock exhibitions.
A sweep of early mining theory explores X rays as a tool to reveal gold in sand and gravel in Klondike claims. Nikola Tesla and Dr Emmoys of New York endorse radiography to probe shallow beds, with radiographs showing embedded gold in quartz. The piece notes current limits and possible future tubes and currents to extend ray length for mining.
A 1146 description extols Union Pacific overland service to Denver and San Francisco with seventeen and seventy-two hour estimates, touting latent improvements such as Pintch Nights steam boat air signals ventilated sleepers dining cars reclining chair car Pullman tourist car Cheyenne to Los Angeles and a colored porter on each car. It is pitched as strictly American with red, white and blue colors and promotes equal rights to all.
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