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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1889
Page
8
Henry M. Stanley details a 286 man trek from Yambungga to Ibidwiri, facing attacks, disease, starvation, and desertion. The column thins to 174 by November, with brutal discipline, Arab pressures, and a long, deadly march through a hostile landscape toward Emin Pasha’s domain.
Novem ber 24 to December 1 marked hard travel toward a promised land as Stanley's party crossed ridge lines toward Mont Piégale and then pushed into plains after 160 days of gloom. They endured native skirmishes, secured a cow for meat, and learned from Kakonga locals while planning retreat toward Ibidwiri and Fort Bodo. Emin Pasha finally joined at Albert Nyanza, with subsequent relief and reorganization, as the expedition pressed toward Ugarrowa and Kiliza.
At the Douglas county Kansas Jeffersonian Club meeting on Monday evening, no business of note occurred except complimentary resolutions for Walter A. Willis. The resolutions commend his former service, celebrate his new lucrative position, and wish him success while urging loyal Democrats to extend confidence and esteem to him.
Northwestern wheat stocks total 18.7 million bushels in public and private stores, with more in transit, while Kansas reports an unusually good wheat year with record spring sowing and strong corn and oats prospects. The collection includes farm and city holdings, with notes on fruit, feed, and early grass growth, plus a Newfoundland-style advice column and a brief notice of a fire chief elopement and a patent remedy for teething children.
The sixty fourth annual Jefferson Medical College commencement was held at the Academy of Music in the afternoon. The degree of doctor of medicine was conferred on 212 graduates. Among them Missouri had eight graduates and Kansas four.
An ad touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a trusted remedy promising lasting benefit after first use. Free trial bottles are offered at Barber Bros. drug store. The Parnell commission in Lonnox notes Sir Charles Russell defending the Irish National League and plans for Mr Parnell’s examination next Tuesday.
A rapid digest of events includes King John of Abyssinia dead, strikes by Rochester street car crews and Buffalo Erie switchmen, ice cleared from the Mackinac Straits, an American smilatite buying Jamaica's railways, and a windstorm devastating Chipley Florida. The Nanticoke arrives at Key West, Miss Mary Anderson sails to Europe, six trainmen killed near Centerville Indiana, Jacob Hoff of the cavalry band dies at Fort Riley, fires at Canal Street Chicago do damage, Mexico permits American lard subject to inspection, Beloit merchant arrested for arson attempt, and a murder case in Springfield Maine. Also reports on British policy, grave disturbance at Arkansas City, the Jumbo elephant exhibit, and municipal election forecasts amid party realignments with Davis leading in early returns. Local ads inject Patent remedies and laxatives.
A testimonial from E. W. Reynolds of Ashland Ohio describes severe blood poisoning with facial sores. After ten weeks using Cutcura Remedies, the sores cleared and his face improved dramatically. Reynolds urges others in similar suffering to try Cutcura, praising its transformative effect.
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