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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1892
Page
2
The Gazette offers a mosaic of items including a Lisbon descendant's Columbus family tree, Africa travel myths, a flaxseed eye cure, potential German overcoat changes, Grant monument plans, vast railway expansions, New York state census groupings, Romanian bacillus concerns with creoline, Russia passport controls, Yale admits postgrad women, Aztec ruin finds, paper weight collection fad, and a New Jersey divorce case involving a widow’s pension.
A sweeping digest reports Senate actions on free coinage and the Bellinger arbitration treaty ratification, with House progress on Des Moines port authority and the free wool bill. It details floods of disasters from cyclones, fires, and shipwrecks, and notes arrests, hangings, and political shifts in multiple states and nations.
Global money, debt, and trade figures dominate the news with coin production totaling 51 520 455 75 dollars and debts standing at 071 026 598 cash in treasury 152 898 884. Political shifts include Behring Sea negotiations led by Secretary Boarne and a nomination of Frank L Combs as minister to Japan. Rhode Island adopts biennial elections while New York marks a historical America discovery celebration. Tragedies and incidents include a fatal grape seed lodging, a Sunday paper ban in Carlisle and Miss Easley’s death in Wilkesbarre, plus a self-inflicted death in Altoona.
Fire ravages farmhouses in Red Willow county Nebraska with no fatalities reported. Iowa legislature adjourns sine die while Wisconsin Farmers' Alliance votes to join the requested party. Missouri appoints Adelaide Utter as circuit court clerk in Kansas City, first woman in the post. Illinois stock farm barn loss kills fifty horses. Lynching occurs in north Alabama as a man is slain after Cross Roads murders. Ohio governor appoints Poorman as secretary of state. The steamship Raleigh launch at Norfolk is successful. In Houston, Mrs. Anna Shaw and sister Mrs. Johnson found at home.
Fire in Wilkesbarre started Friday morning at the Misses McCarty millinery store spreading to Kipples sporting goods. Mrs Easby perished with her 5-year-old daughter in a keg blast while fleeing the flames, destroying adjoining shops and causing about 70000 dollars in losses.
The page warns against mercury containing remedies and touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo Ohio as mercury free. It notes internal use and cautions buyers to seek genuine products. Multiple ads urge testing imitative products and promote various medicines, travel offers, and humorous anecdotes from era newspapers.
Pro prietors of Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy claim certainty of cure or $500 payment. They assert long tested success for all catarrh cases and invite you to test the medicine by paying fifty cents to start, implying minimal risk if skeptical readers try it.
I C Frost of Springfield Massachusetts reports his wife used August Flower for sick headache and heart palpitation with satisfactory results after years of other treatments in this city and Boston. The remedy gave immediate relief.
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