Republican Second District Convention Notice 1888
Republican Congressional Convention for Kansas Second District set for July 1 in Ottawa. Delegates apportioned by Blaine 1884 votes with county allocations listed. Delegates to be chosen June 6 at delegate county conventions. Signed by G A Colton Chairman and Ed Lane secretary pro tem.
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Second Congressional District
Kansas
Ottawa
James G. Blaine
Republican Congressional Committee
Garnett
G. A Colton
Lane
Price Reduced Daily Journal From June 28 1886
The daily Journal will be mailed or delivered by carrier for 135 cents a week starting June 28 1886. The move aims to reach every Douglas county household with expanded local and telegraphic reporting. The Journal promises full AP news and urges subscribers to enroll now and note sample copies distributed today.
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The
Daily Journal
Douglas County
Lawrence Journal Booms as Corn and Paper Thrive
It's a booming year for Lawrence. The corn is booming and so is the Journal. Our Chicago switchmen should return to work. A Lawrence UP depot seems unlikely this season. If St John runs for Congress, expect political turmoil. Daniel LaMont named A M. The Journal now costs 15 cents weekly. Kansas politics look dull this fall with little party division. Weather forecasters warn of July drought and scorched corn. An eastern lecturer was egged and stoned while asking for bread.
Speech Rebuffed in Labor Knights Row
Ma Foxston cautioned about his boycott speech to the Knights of Labor urging better conduct. The remark suggests a need for restraint before any future public address.
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Ma. Foxston
Knights of Labor
Fifteen Cents a Week for First Class Daily Paper
The Journal is priced at fifteen cents per week and popular with subscribers. Leavenworth’s new Union depot work to start in about three weeks. Beexort backs Colonel Moonlight for Governor. A candidate from Leavenworth may appear despite the Standard. Four telegraphic reports and local news sections make the Journal a sought after paper. Strawberries are in season with blackberries and raspberries. Anarchists’ hanging in Chicago to cleanse the lakeside air. Blue the farmer will lecture at Bismarck grove on prohibition. Petrizer of the New York World argues editors don’t necessarily make good congressmen. Senate panel votes seven to two against investigating Senator Payne’s election. The Senate remains wary of such inquiries.
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Union
Leavenworth
New Oreass Notable Active Place Keeps Flies Down
New Oreass was the only noticea bly active place in the country last week as reported to Bradstreet. It takes a good deal of activity to keep off the flies down there at this season of the year.
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New Oreass
Bradstreet
Inland revenue rise in first eleven months 1886?
Internal revenue collections for the first eleven months of the fiscal year ending June 30 1886 total $107 104 485, showing an increase of $3 402 838 over the same period in the prior year.
Political Commentary and Local Pique Echo Vermont Woes
The piece lampoons farmers and politicians with biting humor. It jokes that Farmer Beewan and an all-year-round farmer are failures and mocks Mr Epucyps in Vermont while noting Vermont Republicans’ lingering resentment toward Mr Edmund. It warns that political Ulysses face danger and notes aristocrats avoiding sulks in tents.
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Mr. Epucyps
Vermont
Mugwumpery
Mr. Edmund
Ulysses
Leavenworth Aims to Grow as Manufacturing Town
A group of leading Leavenworth businessmen led by Dr. R. J. Brown urge Kansas City to become a commercial metropolis while Leavenworth becomes a manufacturing center. They argue Leavenworth and Lawrence should both advance accordingly.
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Leavenworth
R. J. Brown
Kansas City
Lawrence
Movement to end Sunday burials gains support in Philadelphia
A Philadelphia movement led by the Knights of Labor carriage drivers aims to end Sunday burials, with clergy from various denominations endorsing it. Undertakers oppose the change, grave diggers may join the drivers’ action, and threats of a strike loom. The piece also notes city editor C D Dean of the Journal resigning due to ill health and planning a Western Kansas trip, while praising his professionalism and possible return to journalism.
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Philadelphia
Knights of Labor
C. D. Dean
Journal
Dean
The
State University
Kansas
The Kiss Debate and Political Allegiances
A long meditation on kissing notes its antiquity and risks, citing Dr. Adams of JAMA and medical warnings about infant kissing. It praises enduring charm while linking Sherman, Funston, and Kansas politics to labor and republican lines, urging Funston to state his Knights of Labor stance.
Women at the University Advocating Equal Rights
Mrs. Monroe of Atchison and Mrs. Kingsley of Paola urged Kansas women’s equal representation at the State University. They argued for one third female Regents and more women instructors, noting progress yet calling for leadership and improved graduation day presence for women.
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Monroe
Atchison
Kingsley
Paola
State University
Kansas
Has Not Yet Repudiated the Knights
A Kansas congressman from the Second district is accused of being a Knight of Labor. The piece warns Republicans not to renominate him, arguing that law and order supporters reject any official sympathetic with train wreckers who imperil life and property.
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Kansas
Labor
Funston
Parsons Sun
Knight of
Order
Wyandotte
Knights of Labor
Law and Order
Knights of Law
Knights
Knight of Labor
Congress
Literary comments and reviews from publishers notes
The piece previews several new or notable publications: Some Funny Things edited by Frank Harrison, a 62 page children’s sayings pamphlet priced at 10 cents. The Library Magazine praised for rich reading and sound logic. The North American Review July issue highlighted by E W Gillam on Chinese Emigration, letters by Grant and Sherman, and a discussion on exord and silver money, all from North American Review Co. New York.
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Frank Harrison
Ogilvie & Co
New York
Library Magazine
John B. Alden
North American Review
E. W. Gillam
A.S. Grant
W. T. Sherman
C. L. James
North American Review Co., Publishers
Fair First Lady Capturing Society at the Capital
The fair young wife of the President draws praise and political benefit at the capital. She aims to assert authority early and steady, warning against the President’s frequent vetoes. Familiarity, the piece suggests, may dull public interest and risk impropriety.
Journal Booms in Douglas County Daily Circulation
It takes the Journal at fifteen cents per week and offers a newsy paper rich in local matter and telegraphic dispatches. The paper claims rapid subscriber growth, adding nearly fifty daily readers, pleasing the counting room as Lawrence and the Journal boom.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
Journal
Shawnee Republicans Endorse Judge Valentine for Fourth Term
The Shawnee county Republicans endorsed Judge Valentine for reelection to a fourth term and condemned elections to a third term. Capital statesmanship favors fourth term candidates while opposing third termers.
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Shawnee County
Valentine
Parker's Tonic Featured as Blood Purifier and Healer
Advert says Parker's tonic purifies the blood and cleanses the liver and kidneys. It promises relief from aches and pains and claims to restore health, noting it has a reputation for delivering what it asserts.
Ely's Cream Balm Offered as Safe Catarrh Remedy
An 19th or early 20th century ad warns against cocaine lodoform or Mercurial treatments for catarrh or hay fever due to danger. Ely's Cream Balm is promoted as the only reliable, nonpoisonous remedy, claimed to have cured thousands where others failed. A small amount placed in each nostril is painless and easy to use, priced at fifty cents.
Order for Appearance of Absent Defendants in Federal Suit
In the United States Circuit Court for the District of Kansas an order directs absent defendants Thomas J. Coyle Mary Coyle Lemuel Camp and Camp s wife unnamed to appear and plead by July 1 1886 or face pro confesso. The order requires service by publication in Lawrence Weekly Journal for six weeks with the last publication at least twenty days before the rule day. Co G. Foster, Judge. A true copy of original order. Attest: A B Tuomas, Clerk. 4-22w6t
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Toewit
Thomas J. Coyle
Mary Coyle
Lemuel Camp
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Lawrence
Co. G. Foster
Tuomas
Spring River
Cherokee County
Kansas
E. H. Curtis
Curtin
Bassett & Perkins
David J. Brewer
Thomas
Frank J. Thomas
Order for Appearance of Absent Defendant in Kansas suit
In Cherokee county Kansas a suit to enforce a lien on real property is issued against E H Curtis and Sarah Watson with James Watson as defendants. The court orders appearance by September 7 1886 and authorizes service by publication in the Lawrence Weekly Journal for six weeks.
Publication Notice in Lawrence Journal For Defendants
Edward P Harris sues Christian Hey Hattie E Van Vieck and T J Van Vieck to enforce a real property lien on 160 acres in Smith County Kansas. Defendants not found within state and will be served by publication in Lawrence Weekly Journal for six consecutive weeks before the rule day. Judge David J Brewer presiding.
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Circuit Court of the United States
District of Kansas
Edward P. Harris
Chan- Christian Hey
Hattie E van Vieck
County of
Smith
Kansas
Christian Hey
Hattie E. van Viecks
T. J. van Vieck
Bassett & Perkins
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Lawrence
David J. Brewer
Cery
Order for Appearance of a Defendant in Kansas suit
An 1896 Kansas court orders Joseph Hewitt and Ada Hewitt to appear and plead in a suit brought by Ada Cloud. The defendants are nonresidents, not served personally, so the order directs publication for six consecutive weeks in a weekly newspaper before the rule date. The case concerns land described as the southeast quarter of section nine, township eight, range seventeen in Rooks County.
Court Order in Cherokee County Kansas Real Property Suit
W R Tompkins files against Andrew Johnson and Alice Johnson in chancery to secure appearance in a real property dispute in Cherokee County Kansas. The court orders defendants to plead by September 7 1886 and allows service by publication for six weeks in the Lawrence Weekly Journal due to non service. A Thomas Clerk.
Court orders publication to serve defendants in Atteberry case
In the United States Circuit Court for Kansas Cherokee County, John M Atteberry and Susan Atteberry are nonresidents not appearing in the suit filed by William Canby Biddle. The court orders publication of the order for six consecutive weeks in the Lawence Weekly Journal and fixes September rule day as the deadline to plead, answer, or demur by the first Monday of September 1886. A true copy is on file.
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John M. Atteberry
Susan A.teberry
N. Pritchett
Sand— Pritchett
Township Thirty Four
Range Twenty-Five
Cherokee
Kansas
Susan Atteberry
M. Pritchett
Pritchett
Bassett & Perkins
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Lawrence
David J. Brewer
Thomas
Frank J. Thomas
Ead to Bone Scraping Ends with Healing
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg Illinois credits Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with curing a leg sore eight years old that doctors warned would require bone scraping or amputation. After three bottles of Bitters and seven boxes of Arnica Salve his leg is sound. Barber Bros sells Electric Bitters for fifty cents a bottle and Arnica Salve for twenty five cents per box.
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Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
Bucklen
Barber Bros
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