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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1887
Page
2
Lawrence notes a Fort Scott boom with plans to park streets in spring. Indications point to a successful fair at Bismarck next season. Florida travel has fallen off this winter. The legislature deals generously with the University. Everything is about right upon the hill.
In the final week of the session the legislature sharpens its pace as lawmakers race to pass key measures before adjournment, drawing scrutiny from constituents and observers tracking policy outcomes and deadlines.
A sizable portion believe investments in Topeka promise greater safety for future speculation than those in any other Kansas city, reflecting local confidence in the capital’s stability and growth potential.
A prediction that Governor Robinson will make the Indian School the crown work of his life and that his final days will be his best days.
Ex-President Santos of Uruguay travels to Paris with a retinue of sixteen servants. Uruguay has about five hundred thousand people. In contrast General Grant abroad with six companions could have been mistaken for Rhode Island's governor.
The admission by leading officers of coal companies that wage reductions from 224 to 20 cents per hour drove the strike sheds light on the dispute. It explains the origin of the labor conflict and points to the wages as the primary cause of the unrest.
Col R. S. Stevens, noted for building MK. & To shops at Parsons, backs Parsons & Pacific to establish car shops mirroring the rent machine shops there. His administration previously oversaw Parsons shops and now drives the new boom.
The Prohibitionists of Kentucky will hold a state Convention in Louisville on March 3. Judge Fantine T. Fox, chair man of the state committee, urges friends of the cause to attend, hoping for an unusually interesting gathering. We know of several prominent Prohibitionists from this region who intend to be there.
The Tur New York Star reports the Ilinois arriving at the port yesterday as the first American steamer to enter from Europe in twenty years. Fully American built by American labor, commanded by a Yankee crew, bearing a red white and blue ensign, and owned and controlled by native Americans.
The Pennsylvania Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line along with the Plant System announce a new limited express with Pullman cars to surpass any in the country. It will depart New York at 9 p.m. and reach Jacksonville, Florida, at 4 p.m. the following day.
The cabinet member Lamar, while leaving for the south, was approached by a buxom woman who urged attention to her business. He promised to attend to it, but reassured her with a playful remark that drew laughs. The scene concluded with a quip about Mrs. Lamar watching.
The World surveyed 66 Democratic lawmakers on the likely presidential winner in the state. Only six favored Cleveland, twenty chose Hill, five named both Cleveland and Hill, one picked Hewitt, one named Hill and Thurman, twenty-four declined to answer, and nine were absent. Republicans were not fully listed here.
Governors Hill would poll more votes than any other Democrat. Of the Republican assemblymen thirty thought Mr Blaine the strongest candidate for their party in this State, seven named Chauncy M Depew, and twenty were non committal, the rest scattering.
The piece argues for a public measure to regulate sleeper car charges, citing Chicago to Springfield at $2 plus porter fees versus New York to Boston at $1.50 with no porter fee. It analyzes Pullman Company earnings, assets, and dividends, suggesting Kansas legislators study monopolistic pricing and the need to curb excessive rates.
The notice describes scrofula and skin diseases leading to consumption, asserting Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery battles the disease in the blood. It also states the Rock Island line will reach Atchison by October 1.
A Georgia railroad yardmaster credits B B B blood purifier with curing his wife’s persistent catarrh and blood illnesses. The item notes Mme Christine Nilsson's marriage to the Comte de Mirande at Mentone last Tuesday in a quiet ceremony.
Mrs Phasbe Chesley Peterson Clay Co Iowa aged 73 says electric Bitters cured her kidney complaint and lameness allowing self care and housework. She praises the remedy and offers a 50 cent bottle at Barber Bros. Wolves prowl around the stock yards in Ottawa nearly every night.
Attica Kansas plans a new mill with a capacity of 100 barrels per day. Advertisements tout Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets for liver and bowel relief, Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for catarrh, and Ely’s Cream Balm for cold and hay fever. Senator Lowe says prohibition would pass by 60,000 if a vote were held again.
The Fortnightly Review essay explores how love influences human efficiency through Darwinian ideas of sexual and natural selection. It cites Wallace on beauty signaling fitness and argues that in humans selection favors mental and moral traits as well as physical ones, with intensified individualization.
A Meadville Tribune reader story describes a cat perched on a small oyster measure outside a seafood business. The cat reaches into the oysters with its paw and retrieves shells, returning to watch for another chance to nab a bite.
An advertising claim from 1886 asserts Athlophoros cures rheumatism neuralgia and related ailments. It cites Edgerton Kansas testimonials including J C Doome and Mrs Thos McCue of Dubuque Iowa, praising relief after one bottle. Pills and remedy sold by Athlophoros Co. 112 Wall Street New York.
The piece recalls Dr. Sunderland a friend of Lincoln who urged courage on emancipation. Lincoln replied that "every little helps," echoing a later quip about aid and small acts. The column also notes Ayer's Cherry Pectoral as a leading remedy for pulmonary issues.
A Buffalo Courier tale recalls a local newspaper man awakened by fire in a hotel. He escaped amid smoke with a fleeing figure in white, guiding her toward safety with a firm resolve to run rather than pray. Their paths diverged after a dramatic moment, leaving a lasting impression on both. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is praised as cleansing scrofula.
A collage of agricultural tips and observations from various papers. Topics include manure handling, tree planting, poultry feeding and roosting, cabbage and corn cultivation, pruning and manuring, mixed farming advantage, dairy cow care in the dry period, soil nutrients from wheat, and a quip about seven husbands never late at night.
An 1830s style clipping touts Parker Tonic as a permanent cure for liver weakness by David Bush of Little Rock Arkansas. It also promotes Parker’s Hair Balsam claiming hair restoration and gloss for Mrs E Sweeny of Chicago. Brief mentions St Joe and Leavenworth report burglary concerns.
M A Abbey of Russellville Arkansas dated June 8 1884 says he found an honest remedy 8B B B the best blood poison remedy on earth after using four bottles he is nearly cured of a serious blood poison A Garden City paper notes promise of more railroads in the near future than any town in the southwest
The text notes early disease symptoms affecting the stomach liver and bowels and promotes Ho tetter's Stomach Bitter as an early effective remedy. It warns against quinine and harsh drugs. It also mentions a charter filing with the secretary of state to organize the Emporia starch and glucose manufacturing company.
The article asserts a contamination and foreign element in the blood from indigestion causes rheumatism and misdeeds the joints. It claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters greatly reduces the disease and is preferable to poisons, also touting malarial fevers constipation dyspepsia kidney and bladder ailments and debility as other uses with a warning to obtain the genuine product.
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