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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1888
Page
2
A garbled weekly issue covers subscriptions for The Lawrence Journal in Dogine county and Lawrence Kansas, with editorials on Atchison and Kansas politics, liquor laws, tariffs, post office friction, and local industrial plans. It highlights a proposed sugar factory, rail expansion, and a women’s Christian temperance group founding an industrial school for girls in Belvit, seeking funding.
Agricultural notes urge farmers to breed fast walking horses to save time and increase efficiency on the farm, and compare plowing and hauling distances. A London police and poor life column describes crowded streets, drink dens, and the burden on officers amid urban poverty and crime, with reflections on temperance and social reform.
A British Museum display features Cleopatra’s opened sarcophagus and a Circe mummy in glass cases, with Anne admiring royal entombment relics. The Stone of Rosetta fascinates, its inscriptions unlocking hieroglyphics and Greek texts, revealing ancient Egypt’s history and culture.
An exchange reports a correspondent’s success burying old fruit debris and metal under fruit trees, improving growth and greatly increasing yields. The note recalls historical experiments linking underground mellow soil and buried conductors to vigor, with buried iron pieces only beneficial when the soil is deeply dug to reach roots.
A collage of education and church items. Vermont reports 1800 districts with under twelve pupils. Kansas City board makes Spanish compulsory in high schools. Free Church of Scotland Mission schools near Madras host about 1900 students. Omaha Board of Education quarrels over Civil War content in history. Archbishop Heiss notes Germans make up 3 million of 9 million U.S. Catholics, with German clergy counts. Baltimore churches report spiritual health and 2000 YMC A members. Harvard votes to build a dormitory for 200000 dollars, named Jog Hall, due in October 1889. Pittsburgh ministers condemn Sunday papers. St Louis votes down German language instruction in public schools, English only at public expense. Michigan University regents report 155000 dollar appropriation over two years. among 1408 students, parents’ occupations include farmers, merchants, lawyers, physicians, manufacturers, mechanics, and clergymen.
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