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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1887
Page
6
Grace Denio Litchfield recounts her experiences in Mentone during the recent European earthquake. The June Wide Awake article from The Weekly Journal highlights her observations and reactions to the disaster and its impact on travelers and residents.
Kansas reports 200000 church members with 132000 Protestants and 65000 Catholics. Members are served by 2571 church organizations in 1690 church edifices. Total church property value is estimated near 5 million dollars.
Cuanes Egbert Craddock begins a new tale titled The Story of Keedon Bluffs in the June Wide Awake and plans to publish across numbers 12 through 16 each month.
A new volume from D. Lothrop Company will collect popular ballads by Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorp. It features Curfew Must Not Ring To-night and Remember the Alamo among other songs and stirring Texan liberty songs.
In Topeka the Knights of Labor adopt resolutions urging local workmen to stay away from work when strangers are preferred for jobs. The reform aims to protect residents, asserting there is enough work but against hiring outsiders.
Torexa acknowledges receipt of a 1237 tax on 554 dogs as a revenue source. The dog is hailed as most valuable to Lawrence’s finances, with potential to ease the city’s public treasury, given proper encouragement for canine taxation.
The annual commencement at State Agricultural College Manhattan begins Sunday June 5 with a Baccalaureate sermon by President Fairchild and closes Wednesday June 8. President Edward Willets of Michigan State Agricultural College will deliver the annual address.
In a Topeka Capital voice, Louisville dispatch laments that justice is swift for two Black murderers of Jeanie Bowman, contrasting with white criminals who often evade punishment, and noting lingering racial bias in Kentucky’s justice system.
Garden City Sentinel notes abundant rains bring cheer and record planting. Nearly a million extra acres to corn cane and other crops have been planted. more breaking this season than in the prior five seasons. Tree planting is widespread since early spring and continues, with fruit and forest trees adorning landscapes everywhere.
Henry Watterson in the Louisville Courier-Journal denounces Harper’s Weekly editor George William Curtis as uninformed about America and anti-Democratic. He mocks Curtis’s preoccupation with European fashions and domestic affairs, describing his views as fragile and out of touch with plain folks.
At the United States Brewers Association convention in Baltimore, $5,000 was set aside for Michigan brewers, $5,000 for Texas, and $3,000 for Tennessee to oppose prohibitionists. An additional $9,000 was allocated to the publication committee, and an extra assessment equal to one year's dues was approved to fund national anti temperance efforts by the board of trustees.
Gronor William Curtis argued that civil service reform faces the Democratic Party as the chief obstruction, noting more Republicans support reform than Democrats. He described his alliance with the Democracy as a logical result of his missionary zeal to spread reform to Democratic strongholds.
The text likens Blaine to a burglar causing nerves among Mugwumps and Democrats. It suggests their fear of his private West visit or Europe trip as political plots, yet asserts the Republican candidate will be chosen by the party’s grace and free choice, not plotted manipulation.
A writer complains that street parking is barely seven feet after removing sidewalk, gutter, and setbacks. He cites Henry Tisdale and a green strip as a token space, noting tree roots create hills and urging the council to pause for real street improvements.
A civic plea urges better sanitation as cholera looms in the west. It notes hasty town layouts, poor drainage, neglected cellars, and sinks, warning that working families bear the burden while urging residents to heed the mayor’s cleanliness recommendations.
A Sixth precinct captain reports on Chinatown's Chinese residents, depicting them as industrious, clean, and inscrutably secretive. He notes gambling in dens masked by misdirection, opium use dwindling, and Chinese customs including taper burning. He praises their cookery and literacy but accuses a reluctance to tell truth to police.
A listener boasts he will puzzle the Bishop of Oxford on heaven’s path. The Bishop reveals himself and offers a plain route, saying turn right and go straight forward. The anecdote, from a Great Western railway journey, highlights Wilberforce’s quick wit.
A New York girl visiting Philadelphia ends a supper after an opera date with her escort paying her bill from her own money. She laughs at being paid from her funds, while he quips about debts of her wife.
A New York Sun interview with a pyrotechnics dealer outlines this year’s fireworks boom. It highlights safer handling, dazzling rockets with ruby and sapphire bursts, aerial contortionists, and noise rockets. Also featured are tiger lilies, tin wrapped penholders, Chinese rattan bombs, colored firecrackers, flying pigeons, and waterborne displays.
Two distinct panda genera are described, including Ailurus fulgens the red panda with its cinnamon red back and black underside and the white panda Ailuropus melanoleucus found in high Himalayan ranges. The reports trace plantigrade gait, woolly feet, and silken fur, noting discovery by Hardwicke and Abbe David and the rarity of specimens in Europe and the United States.
Chicago News reports a retaliatory schedule for railroad advertising rates. Rules include $2 per line for president or director puff pieces, $2.50 per line for English puffs, half fares for some officials, and special charges for poetry and complimentary notices.
In Amboyna and the Spice Islands curious crabs feed at night and live near palm trees. They cut coconuts from trunks with their claws, drop them to the ground, strip husks, extract meat piece by piece, and even beat nuts on rocks. Malays gather husks to weave mats.
The note states Gothic Col has twelve residents, eight men and four women, and mentions the daily paper has suspended.
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