Lawrence Kas April 21 1887 boom shows through
The Lawrence water works produced a 160 foot jet with 180 lb pressure. A $4,000 art league building fund is targeted after $1,600 raised among workers and $1,000 raised yesterday on the streets. The boom is mirrored by strong Journal demand with copies at local stands. Real estate shows activity as Mr B F Smith sells six lots for $300 and is offered $2,000, while G W E Griffith sells two acres, prompting further offers.
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Art League
Lawrence
B. F. Smith
G. W. E. Griffith
Douglas county Horticultural Society meeting report
The Douglas county Horticultural Society met at the University with strong attendance. Prof Snow spoke on epidemic disease causes to wide attention, followed by remarks from Dr. Newman. The next meeting will be at A H Griesa’s fruit farm. Shipments west and a Cimarron farm expansion mark a vibrant fruit industry locally.
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Douglas County Horticultural Society
Snow
Newman
A. H. Griesa
Kansas
Douglas County
B. F. Smith
J. W. English
Cimarron
Lawrence
English
Lawrence Improvement Association Seeks Enforcement of Nuisance Ordinance No. 33
The Lawrence Improvement Association calls attention to Sec.6 Sec.7 and Sec.8 of Ordinance No 33 prohibiting offensive stockyards noxious filth and offensive grounds in the city. Violations may incur fines up to 100 dollars per offense or daily penalties. Complaints to Alfred Whitman Eldridge House corner will be forwarded to city authorities by the Executive Committee.
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Lawrence Improvement Association
Apfl
Alfred Whitman
Eldridge House Corner
Prospecting for gas raises local interest in Lawrence
The Journal reports on plans by the Pennsylvania Gas & Mining Co to prospect for natural gas in Lawrence. A letter from R M Carter proposes exclusive city piping rights and a franchise, with costs to cover survey expenses. Wa. T. Sinclair urges public steps for a preliminary survey.
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Lawrence
Horror Journal
Pennsylvania Gas and Mining Co
Osawattamie
Kan
Sinclain
R. M. Carter
Pennsylvania Gas & Mining Co
Wa. T. Sinclair
Opera House Opens in Spe Shape with Improvements
The Spe shape opera house opened Friday evening with furnishing and refitting underway. Canopy for balcony boxes remains to be hung, curtains for boxes and rear parquet seating to be installed, walls to be papered, and scenery awaiting arrival. The drop curtain, depicting the Bay of Naples, is praised as a beauty, rivaled only by one in Mexico. When finished, Lawrence will boast a proud opera house.
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Bay of
Naples
Mexico
Lawrence
Music Teachers Association closes second Kansas meeting
The second annual Kansas State Music Teachers association session closed Friday at the Congregational church in Topeka. Prof. MacDonald of Lawrence presented a paper on Theoretical Study for the Musician, urging broad knowledge across musical arts and related sciences. Officers elected: President William MacDonald, Secretary Treasurer Miss Lida Davis, Executive Committee H E Schultze, A C Mose, A W Sickner, Programme Committee H H Morrill, P D Aldrich, Mrs A L Simpson. President MacDonald praised the meeting and forecast a lively next year.
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Kansas State Music Teachers’ Association
MacDonald
Lawrence
A. C. Moss
Emporia
H. H. Morrill
Topeka
William MacDonald
Kansas
Lida Davis
Junction City
H. E. Schultze
Kansas City
A. C. Mose
A. W. Sickner
Wichita
P. D. Aldrich
A. L. Simpson
Wm. MacDonald
A.C. Moesl
North Lawrence Items and Local News Highlights
A North Lawrence meeting discussed a new canning factory and better prices for current produce while noting street improvements and upcoming rain mud. D. D. Manley planted 500 apricot trees but only 200 survived the dry season. The James gang visited the north side for six hours, looting homes and taking sixty dollars from a Walnut street banker and fifteen dollars’ worth of wardrobe from Mrs. J. H. Sisson. At A J Dicker’s, they made a brief stop for dry goods. The Oila water works failed, forcing the Deaf and Dumb institution to close and return children home. Cocheco mills in Dover, New Hampshire, burned yesterday with several casualties.
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D. D. Manley
Frank James
Dick Littel
Bob J. Ford
James Gang
North Side
Walnut Street
J. H. Sisson
A.J. Dicker
Oilathe
Deaf and Dumb
Board of Charities
Favorite Prescription and a jockey’s death at Louisville
Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo promotes Favorite Prescription as a remedy for female weaknesses and pelvic health. The report notes the physician’s global reputation and the product’s claimed benefits. Also, Charlie Taylor the jockey crushed at the Louisville race track on Wednesday died yesterday.
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Charlie Taylor
Louisville
Dr Pierge's Golden Medical Discovery Promises Hepatic Cure
An old advertisement claims liver disease causes sick headaches low spirits and lack of ambition with lungs stomach and bowels in sympathy. It asserts the remedy torpid liver and removal of nervous gloom and irritability. Also reports missing Water Registrar M. H. Murphy of Hoboken, N J rumored to be short $7,000 in his accounts.
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Pierge
M. H. Murphy
Hoboken, N. J
What Would the World Do Without Woman Essayist Says
An essayist argues the world would lack the salvation of woman without Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The piece frames the medicine as a panacea for female ills and weaknesses, essential for womankind.
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Dr. Pierce
The Little Ones. No Good Stories of Guileless Children
Short anecdotes from Harper's Magazine recount thoughtful children's questions about heaven, angels, God, baths, and morals. A Bangor Missouri boy asks if Grant will reach Heaven, a dark fear prompts to send God after the lamp, Floy resists washing yet wants rinsing, and a Connecticut boy misinterprets slang as a moral lesson.
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General Grant
Bangor
Grandma
Connecticut
Mamma
Johnnie
Chunked Around Aged Black Citizen Describes Abuse
AnArkansaw Traveler account recounts a veteran Black man describing being shoved and struck by a White man in a street incident. He says the assailant aimed blows at his head with coal and forced him to confess guilt over a cheese theft, claiming racial hostility and harassment.
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Dickinson
Arkansaw Traveler
A Reckless Old Negro
In a Texas Siftings vignette Uncle Mose and Jim Webster spar over lending a dollar. Mose claims boldness while hesitating to part with a trusted friend, highlighting a tense exchange about trust and money from a regional fragment.
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Jim Webster
Jess
Uncle Mose
Texas
The Trouble of a Father Real Estate Plan
A Philadelphia Call item describes a comical real estate negotiation where a father seeking a house is told he cannot have a second child. The agent proposes a small malarial suburban house as a temporary solution until the family size reduces.
Parker's Hair Balsam Promises Hair Revival
An advertisement touts Parker's Hair Balsam as a vital solution for thinning or fading hair. It claims to restore gloss and youthful color, keep hair clean, and remove dandruff, presenting a concise sales pitch in a period tone.
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Parker
The Sad Results of Supa ness and Carelessness
ABaltimore American reprint explores how oversensitivity and thoughtlessness fuel conflict. It argues that blaming motives worsens disputes, urges impartial view, and highlights kindness and tact as social glue in homes and hosting.
Village Schoolmaster Parody and Domestic Banter
A humorous exchange riffs on Goldsmith's lines as a wife teases her husband about a small head carrying much knowledge and a carpenter’s hole leads to a crack in the door. The note then references a medical treatise address from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo New York.
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Belle
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Raw Manure for Fruit Trees Shows Promising Results
Stephen Powers of Ohio Farmer recounts applying fresh horse manure to orange peach and pear trees in fall 1885 rather than composting. He details methods to absorb liquids with litter soil and mulching, water during heat, and occasional mixing with a Hoe to integrate manure into soil. He notes trees grew vigorously with less loss than expected despite rain and birds.
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Stephen Powers
Ohio
Hog Cholera and Pigs Profit in Farming
Hog cholera reduces farm value and soils remain contaminated for years. Plowing all run areas could help, but is hard around buildings and fences. Hogs, when well managed, are profitable and digest waste, yet many farmers do not value them until forced to stop raising them. A. J. Chapman, a wealthy Holmes County farmer, died in a brush fire on Thursday.
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KK. G. Janison
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Edward Russell
W.W. Cockens
G.W. E. Griffith
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Thacher
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A. Hadler
T. F. New
the National Bank
Lawrence, Kansas
United States Depository
Europe
W. F. Marc
E. Benson
J. D. Bowsbock
Douglas County Bank
CoraessionpEnts
National Bank
First National Bank Chi + Laclede Bank
St. Louis
Konitz Bros
New York City
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General Nsurance
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Eddrees
A. L Selig
Nsurance Building
WM. T. Sinclair
Real Estate and Loans
A. H. Foote
Attorney At Law
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A. J. Griffin
Winthrop Street
M. E. Church
Bell & CO
General Law
Mass
Lawrence Kas
Duncan and Smiths
Field & Hargis and
Crew’s
Music Teacher's Association
North Lawrence
Cocheco
Dover
N. H
R. V Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Harnese
J.G. Sands
Baltimore American
A. J.chapman
Holmes County
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