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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1887
Page
7
Arsenic eating among young women grows, despite warnings. Doctors warn that even small arsenic doses damage blood, kidneys, liver and nerves, and threaten life. advertisements push complexion products while health officials urge action to halt the deadly habit.
Excerpts from Nineteenth Century recounting medicines prescribed by Oriental physicians. The piece notes decotions of three scorpions for fever, deer horn powders, tiger bone decoctions for strength, eye brightening remedies from nightjar eyes, and unicorns horn as a valued ingredient with ginseng and rhinoceros horn cited by various observers including Miss Bird and Dr Nosaki.
A fragmentary humorous outlook warns against repeating bad habits. It suggests restraint to avoid future troubles and uses a rural dialect to describe guilt and consequences. The brief piece hints at moral action and personal fate with playful caution.
A survey party of about thirty eight from Nagnoor to Hyderabad encounters a curious scene as a tiger plays with a caught fish near the Gadavey river bend. The tiger purrs, toys with a hat, and avoids attack, influenced by a native’s warning. After a tense half hour the animal departs when a pistol shot is fired. Later a tiger disarms and kills another servant before being dispatched.
Mrs Nelson McCormick of North Branch Michigan has crafted a unique white dress entirely crocheted from thread. The work features shaped sleeves and a lock crocheted join, using ten thousand yards of thread and taking six months to complete.
A collage of anecdotes and brief notes from various sources. It mentions G E Buckle becoming London Times editor in 1884, a widow turning to literature, an American violinist stunning Germans, royal entries to water colors exhibitions, Sir Evarts' large families, Cardiff Castle expansions, a Western professor’s wife heroism remark, a Chicago nail from 1698, a Chinaman butler in California, and Commodore Vanderbilt’s wealth secret.
A collage of quips from Punch and Brooklyn Eagle humor columns. It riffs on spelling vanity and education, a watch misadventure before a train, a guide’s bait warning, a Tramp’s water joke, a courtroom banter about marriage, and a Punch lampoon on late bedtimes. It closes with a Detroit cafe anecdote on brewing an old fashioned cup of coffee using improvised ingredients.
The Douglas County Kansas Board of County Commissioners issues a township-wide order requiring owners of domestic animals to confine and restrain them from running at large in Clinton Township between January 1 and December 31. The measure, effective from January 2, 1867, cites penalties and directs publication in the Lawrence Weekly Journal for three weeks. The order is certified by County Clerk J. Joel S. White.
Registered pharmacists at 900 Massachusetts Street Lawrence Douglas County Kansas filed on July 20 1887 with the Probate Judge a petition to sell intoxicating liquors for medical mechanical and scientific purposes only. Probate Judge sets Monday August 23 at 10 AM in Lawrence for hearing of C P Barber? Barber Brothers partners.
Notice that an application will be made to the Board of Pardon of Kaneas at their July 1887 session for the pardon of John W Chamberlain convicted of second degree murder on June 6 1876 and sentenced to the Kansas Penitentiary for 21 years from Douglas County Mrs M H Rogers, By Kansas.
On the 21st day of July 1887 the Probate Court of Douglas County Kansas duly appointed and qualified DEIVER as administrator of the estate of Thomas Oliver, late of Douglas County, deceased. All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
Notice states on the 16th day of July the Probate Court of Douglas County Kansas appointed and qualified J G Haskell as administrator of the estate of William N Scott late of Douglas County deceased.
Joel White County Clerk of Douglas County certifies the attached document is a true copy of the original County Commissioners order on file and notes its first publication in the Lawrence Weekly Jovanac on July 14 1887.
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