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Newspaper
Lawrence Weekly Journal
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1887
Page
7
An exhortation compares the body to a battlefield where impure blood fights the constitution. It promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a reliable medicine to defend health, defeat the illness, and restore bodily well being. The text also notes Colonel Bob Ingersoll with his dog in Newark.
A broadside offers a free remedy for nervous weakness and similar conditions. It claims the cure was discovered by a missionary in South America and invites readers to send a self addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T. Inman in New York City for a receipt.
An OCR fragment advertises Kemp's Baleam for the throat and lungs with a 50 cent price and a refund guarantee after three quarters of a bottle. It touts a Berlin Ontario birth, a man gaining eight pounds from sarsaparilla, and Barber Bros. selling the products. It notes Mexico city horsemen raising funds to repave streets for improved horse utility.
Barber Bros. offers a salve said to heal cuts bruises sores ulcers chapped hands chilblains corns eruptions and piles with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Price 25 cents per box. Sold at 8 Dawly Jacob Welch Richie County West Virginia. Welch reportedly felled a hollow maple and killed twenty seven full grown squirrels nearby.
A New London resident asks for two boxes of Kemp's Pile Suppositories by mail noting the druggist is out. The letter claims success for a friend and urges a trial. Available in Lawrence through Barber Bros at 50 cents per box. Dr Oliver Wendell Helmes reads poems from private large type sheets.
A local ad promotes Kemp's Bal Sam as a guaranteed cure for coughs with a first dose producing strong relief. It lists a price of one dollar, a trial size free, and is signed by Barber Brothers. The note mentions Pena's growing library association and Whiting's pride over a coal discovery in the area.
A Mobile Alabama reader praises Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption for bronchitis and catarrh, claiming instant relief and a cure after trying other remedies. He also recommends Electric Bitters and Dr King's New Life Pills and notes free bottles at Barber Bros Drug Store.
Druggists of Rome Georgia report four years of steady sales for Dr King s New Discovery Electric Bitters and Bucklen s Arnica Salve. They claim remarkable cures of consumption using small doses of New Discovery with Electric Bitters and guarantee satisfaction. Sold by Barbe Bros W D Hort Co both wholesale and retail.
Lawrence Kansas June 9 1887 NatruRanges struck Effingham Atchison county The contract for completing stone brick and iron work of the capitol building at Topeka has been let to Geo Evans Co of Topeka for 42205528 dollars The estimated total cost to finish the building is about 900000 dollars The Presbyterians session in Philadelphia voted 107 for organs 54 against Also Italian minister Crispi faces difficulty securing approval of his polygamous marriage Queen Marguerite refuses for wife No3
An essay argues for women seeking business careers and independence while amid a heated critique of a Democratic land policy. The piece defends the homestead act as helping poor settlers against cattle kings, condemning administration officials for alleged bias.
The article criticizes Democratic hostility to the homestead law, noting a Republican origin bill to extend the act to No Man's Land failed without the President's signature. It references prior coverage and presents the proposed extension of homestead laws as a Republican proposal.
A Atlanta woman Miss Minnie Wallace lost hearing sight and taste with severe sores and weak appetite. Six bottles of B B B restored sight and hearing alleviating aches and gave strength. A prominent Alabama man cured of long illness after B B B treatment. London coster mongers gift to Queen Victoria with a trained donkey. Cedar Rapids flouring mill near Marysville destroyed by fire Monday evening.
A reader reports the Dunkarde conference continuing in session at Ottawa Kansas while noting personal health concerns and a testimonial about B B B used for neck ailment, and references Griffin Georgia merchants.
A new post office named Solitude has opened in Kentucky. Several sites within the Hat area are being considered for its optimal location to serve locals efficiently.
A compact editorial uses metaphor of Russian watch-dogs at the Afghan frontier and the English lion to comment on external scrutiny and national resolve. It frames maternal guidance amid ongoing imperial concerns and warns against overreach while urging steadiness in policy.
A discussion on English sentence structure argues that word order mirrors thought more closely in English than in Latin or Greek. The subject fixes correct arrangement, while long or misplaced clauses obscure meaning. Examples from Macaulay and Bos illustrate how misplacing the subject or inserting lengthy parentheses disrupts clarity and style.
During the Christmas season a large B- firm employed a cross-eyed assistant who policed small exhibitable goods. A boy, pricing items, was guided into the back room where the clerk claimed the socks in his back pocket. The boy doubted him, but the sock theft ended with the boy fleeing, shocked by the clerk's supposed all seeing eyes. Also noted is Sadie Moyer of Lansford, Pa, ten years old and 195 pounds, gaining fat at two pounds per week.
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