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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1887
Page
3
A jumble of church services, sales, repairs, and community notices fills the day. Individuals and businesses promote spectacles, paint, soaps, and toilets while churches schedule services and meetings. The piece notes a gas well start and a political club planning Kansas City travel to meet President Cleveland.
The advertisement promotes dress goods with elegant styles and vast assortment at very low prices. It notes today is the last day of cheap rates to Chicago and Bt. Locks with office hours from 9 am to 3 pm. Also mentions carpenters sought by Atxx Saaw& Son for steady, fair-wage employment. A cough remedy claims Led Kemp's Bal. aids recovery.
A local letter argues the city’s ordinance drives farmers from the beat market in Lawrence, harming the majority while few business interests benefit. It urges farmers’ freedom to sell in city markets and condemns rising tariffs and urban policy as a harmful boom. The writer also comments on street life, education proposes industrial schooling, and criticizes local youth, crime, and policing concerns.
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century issue covers local commerce and notices. It praises Kid Glove stock at Wheaver’s, notes an escape by prisoner Riley from a rock pile, and reports district 75 school developments, Baldwin school construction progress, new tuition rules for non resident parents, and teaching and postal staff movements. It also mentions a Wisconsin misaddressing note, a college branch reception for new students, visitors, and a deathless postal anecdote.
Rushing to keep busy, the shop reports immense stock arriving continuously. Saturday brought a large shipment of reliable yarns including Sarony, Spanish, German town and German knitting. On sale Monday morning at the well known Weavers.
Last night in town new students and Kansas City visitors mingled as college groups hosted receptions at the city rooms and homes. Sorosis and Kappa groups hosted gatherings with music, dancing, and refreshments, celebrating the new academic year and pledges to social societies.
An advertisement note boasts best stock, new Dress Goods expert Mr. Weiser, and teaser lines about Plush Moire and latest novelties. Also promotes American Glucose Sugar Feed at $4 per ton with farm use details and a liquor wholesale line. Mentions Kansas City and Maryland politics as stray context.
A mixed notice page lists help wanted for a girl and six stone masons, digs for a well, and entertainment like McIntire & Heath's minstrels. Also advertised are operas, patent remedies, drugstore pitches, and travel ads. Obituaries, lectures, and local events with names, places, and dates appear amid medical ads and local commerce notes.
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