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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1888
Page
2
The Journal of Lawrence Ran recalls a mother seeing her baby depart for school. She faces a day of tasks and quiet loneliness as thoughts turn to a future where all children leave home to face life alone. The verse echoes a mother’s bittersweet relief and grief.
The Plymouth church Fore fathers banquet features Roy’s speech on The Pilgrims in the South, urging reconciliation and equal justice for colored citizens. He recalls slave labor, wartime loyalty, and the need for education, voting rights, and peaceful nation-building amid Dakota and western expansion ideas. The address compares Plymouth Rock era ideals with Baltimore Bay power, and argues for speedy statehood for Dakota and western territories.
Report of a county visit with Dr Morris to the Poo Farm and County Home details improvements. Cemetery cleanup, barn relocation, shed removal, new roof needs, and staff praise for Superintendent Wm Taylor. Proposals include buying extra land for self sufficiency, water supply upgrades, and a separate laundry. Inmates numbered sixteen with thirty present in the year.
General Gordon spoke in Cleveland asserting no white woman was insulted by a colored man during the war. He warned the patient race may not endure insults forever and urged justice and guaranteed rights to avert a looming danger. Dr Ray added a Western man, broadened by Puritan ideas, could reshape the South and end the conflict with national policy changes.
Go to church this morning and forget the worries and anxieties of life. If the preacher interests you you will find the service a refreshment to mind and body, if he does not, be frank and give him the benefit of the doubt.
The world greets Stan Ley as he returns from a perilous sojourn in the labyrinth of Soudan. He is neither dead nor a captive and charts a bold path forward.
The report notes 49 450 tons of material for the state house with 4 946 car loads. It quips that electric power to move it came from a motor no larger than a beer keg. Tae Battle and Suakin are mentioned with Suakin winning. A call is made for Lord Salisbury to reinforce troops and push them to London to unlock global fertility and wealth within a year.
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