Carlson Pays Up Prominent Local court note
Carlson paid 285 dollars to the sheriff to cover the county’s due fines for violating prohibition. Adjutant General Campbell will arrive from Topeka with funds for the Kennas National Guards for encampments. Mrs. Freeman Bell, formerly of Lawrence, died after a brief illness, leaving a fond memory as a devoted wife and mother.
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Kennas National Guards
A.B. Campbell
Topeka
Usher
Rockies
Mrs. Bell
Earth
Howe
Denver Neto
Journal helps Lawrence boom reach eastern papers
The Lawrence Journal highlights its two weeks of sending 200 papers daily to Ohio Indiana and Tulinoia papers, promoting Kansas and Lawrence to readers as a free local advertising effort. Captain A D Searle reports booming prospects, noting land sales and fortunes tied to mineral springs and coal routes, while boom talk includes western migration and temperance reform.
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Lawrence
Ohio
Indians
Tulinoia
Kansas
Great West
Journal 5
Shere
A. D. Searle
Leadville
Rocky Mountains
Searletaila
Wichita
Indianapolis
Specimens Arrive From Smithsonian For University Museum
The Smithsonian sent buffalo and other Montana mammal skins and skeletons to the University of Kansas for mounting under Prof. Dyche. Prof. Snow funded part of the effort, and W. Harvey Brown is honored for his field service. Hornaday will forward a measurement list and Dyche will study taxidermy in Washington before mounting the skins.
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Kansas
Northwest
Jnst
W. H. Brown
University Museum
Dyche
F. A. Snow
University of Kansas
Lawrence Kansas
Sta
Montana
Hornaday
University of Waneneemmersteil
W. Harvey Brown
Mr. Hornaday
Baird
Smithsonian Institution
Skrxs
Snow
Modern Explosives Lecture Sparks Doctor Bailey
Prof Bailey delivered a detailed lecture to the pharmaceutical society on modern explosives. He listed gun powder, gun cotton, Schultze powder, nitroglycerine, dynamite, lithofracture, glyoxiline, chlorate of potash, picrates, and fulminates, with notes on discovery dates, properties, and uses in war, mining, and torpedoes.
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H. S. Bailey
Prof. Bailey
Pharmaceutical Society
Schoenbein
Sabrero
Hanesman
France
Bailey
Ture
Railroad Racket and Kansas Land Boom Report
Ottawa train officials and businessmen were in the city amid talk of Sunday passenger service on Southern Kansas trains and a looming end to land explorer tickets under a federal commerce bill effective April 1. The piece notes a deadly freight incident near Kansas City and cites optimism from Garden City Sentinel writer Coutant about a Kansas land boom as emigrants head east to be induced to settle in the state.
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T.J. Whitenand
Ottawa
C. P. Walker
Dominion Investment Company
Ed Coman
Southern Kansas
Kansas
Cleveland
Mississippi River
Kansas Roads
Kansas Lands
C. G.cottant
Garden City Sentinel
Coutant
Local Notes From Lecompton March 24, 1987
Farmers discuss a future coal mine project and a hoped for local boom. Reports cover lectures attended by townsfolk, university entry by Miss Josie Petty, a faculty change, and the sale of a local newspaper. A barn fire destroyed Johnson's barn and three horses before aid arrived.
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Lecompton
Leecompton
Gazette
Keva
Huffman
Lewis
Eddy
Gunness
Wimmer
Snyder
Waters
Jacoby
Talmage
Topeka
Josie Petty
J. W. Keezel
Oteawga
Echoes
Runnels
Johnson
Isaac
Changes in Santa Fe Time Table and District Court Notes
Santa Fe timetable changes take effect with a new Nickerson to Kansas City service and three westbound trains stopping at Lawrence Topeka Emporia Florence Newton. Westbound express times include Nickerson 11 03 Denver 13 50 and California 12 38. eastbound arrivals are 1 33 3 05 and 4 07. Also court notes report Myron Sherman’s divorce for abandonment and bar admissions for Art and Will Monk with bonds. Atchison Globe reports Kansas Missouri & Nebraska railroad forming with $1 050 000 capital to span multiple counties, and Salvation Army Saturday children's meeting at the Armory.
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Santa Fe
Kansas City
Nickerson
Lawrence
Denver
Topeka
Emporia
Florence
Newton
Soing East
New York
District Court
Myron Sherman
Jas. T. Stevers
Will Monk
Pat Hamlin
J.J. McGee
Eldridge House
Atchison Globe
Missouri, Kansas & Nebraska Railroad
Linn
Miami
Franklin
Johnson, Douglas, Jefferson
Jackson
Atchison
Brown Counties
Marvelous Invention Using Mud and Water to Generate Electric Current
Oakland electrician A G C Tichenor claims a breakthrough producing electric fluid from mud and water with currents rivaling dynamos. He describes a steady 7000 candle power light, noncorrosive, non shock giving, and lines of boxes with carbon and zinc in mud cells. He asserts low loss across many wires and envisions applications to engines and telephony.
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San Francisco Chronicle
A. G C. Tichenor
Oakland
Washington
Mr. Tichenor
Thare
Coal Oi Johnny: From Wealth to Steady Life in Kearney
Franklin YeEs of Pennsylvania defends John W. Steele known as Coal Oi Johnny as a respectable citizen of Kearney. He asserts Steele did not become a tramp to poverty, but built wealth briefly and then settled down with his wife and family.
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Johnny
Franklin Yees
Pennsylvania
John W. Steele
Kearney
Torrid Summer Echoes in Detroit Free Press
A humorous Detroit Free Press column laments an extreme heat wave with vivid, tongue in cheek observations. The author notes the sun scorching, shadows vanishing, ice cream scarce, and people sweating as lawyers and neighbors endure the blistering conditions. The piece playfully imagines heat as a force bending perception and social norms.
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San Diego
Cal
Wiltshire
San
Pain and Pleasure in the Wealth of Sensations
The article debates a wide psychology of pleasure and pain, distinguishing cerebral pleasures from peripheral ones. It cites Hobbes, Bain, Spencer, and Grant Allen while noting modern psychology focuses on sensorily driven joys. It contrasts mental disappointment with physical pain and mentions 183 organized mining companies.
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Herbert Spencer
Grant Allen
Bain
Hobbes
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