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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1887
Page
4
A Kansas gas well has reached 1600 feet with ongoing white sand drilling while reports note over a hundred gas firms formed in the state. Other items reference a Sixth Kansas Cavalry reunion at Fort Scott, Fort Scott mineral water cures, and political chatter about Blaine and Sherman.
Reports that Taxcity of Topeka sold 750000 of 10 year special improvement bonds to Chicago capitalists at a premium. Also notes Omana in boot black gain, a Kansas architect planning an 18000 barn near Falls City, Medicine Lodge voting 15000 in bonds to trench Elm creek water, and trains voting prohibition trends amid broader Kansas notices.
Dr. Howard Crossy furthers a caustic August Forum piece arguing the McGlyne capital critique shifts focus from poverty’s true source. Sweden and Paris papers note prohibition talk in Kansas and a Norwegain welcome for American ideas amid Europe’s political freedoms. Fort Scott oil wells yield 12 to 15 barrels daily of high quality lubricating oil tested by chemists in New York. Kansas records milder heat effects than eastern cities with heat prostrations and deaths listed for St Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Chicago Philadelphia Davenport and New York’s extreme heat day.
Governor Foraxse of Ohio advocates returning the Republican party to power in a forthcoming Forum article. A Buffalo father paid 85 for shoes 35 cents, hat 15 cents, and 4.50 in fireworks for his 10-year-old. General A W Greeley to discuss alcohol effects in polar rescues. Sixteen young ladies sue Western Union Telegraph for 300 each over a missed message causing a church event to be delayed. cases heard together in Judge Reed's court at Topeka.
Weekly Kansas post office notices list new establishments and appointments including Frontenac Crawford county with John G Butler as postmaster and Grigoby Scott county with Edward Nichols appointed. It also reports public criticisms between Topeka Capitol Journal Atchison Champion and Leavenworth Times over published statements about city services and a gas shutoff. The narrative cites other political remarks and a Missouri regiment pay event connected to the 1885 strike.
A grand jury in Hinds County investigates convict labor brutalities in Mississippi mines and on roads The report cites mutilations and scarring of colored inmates at hospitals and farms Whites confined mostly behind walls. the piece links slavery remnants to suppression of black voting and political power.
A. J. Fitzgerald, 73, a Baptist preacher for fifty years, faced a preliminary examination on a swindling charge after an affidavit by C. Dignowitz. Fitzgerald claimed to have found dead wood in San Satia coal mines near Judas Documents on Backbone Mountain in Barnett county, receiving $100 to pursue the search. Dignowitz alleges the map misled him, while Fitzgerald swears there is metal there, amid a tale tied to legendary Spanish works.
A mixed antique column feature presents verses urging fidelity to mothers and domestic virtue, including a dialogue about romance where a maiden questions a suitor. The piece blends moral couplets with light verse and historical notes on poetry and manners.
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