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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1895
Page
2
The Gazette notes the Brookline Elderblow women club learning hairpin usefulness and humorously cites a Connecticut law making tail docking a misdemeanor. It lists Paris pawned watches, Rhode Island density implications, transcontinental telegraph distance, and counts ten million sermons yearly with a hopeful moral.
Vermont senator Senaton Monnint seeks reelection at 82 after 34 years in Congress while global curiosities thread through a wide scan of people and places. The piece mentions witch fears in Ireland, a Russian princelet, a New York law student heiress, and a Boston traveler, alongside rail and canal milestones shaping commerce and travel in Europe and America.
Postmaster general issues order restricting second class matter to subscribing journals. March debt rises by 1,217,105 with treasury cash balance 187,917,261. Visible grain supply lists wheat 74,407,000 bushels and other staples. William L. Wilson takes oath as postmaster general. UK says no interference in Venezuelan settlement. Government expects 20,000,000 in home tax by June 1. Copyrights entered reach 62,762 in 1894. Clearing houses total 1,013,717,358. business failures 220 in week. Supreme court hints income tax exemptions for rents and state bonds. Postal, press, and public notices follow, including deaths, disappearances, executions, and ship losses.
Reports recount a Kentucky cyclone causing extensive property damage and animal deaths, with Lewisburg nearly wiped out. Other items note Findlay Rolling Mill assets and liabilities, a fatal trampling in Indiana, Utah women’s suffrage clause passage, Winona electing a Republican mayor, Springfield post office burglary, and various political and criminal events across Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
The Illinois Supreme Court rules the law authorizing destruction of gambling implements seized under a search warrant is constitutional. The report covers other national items including bank failures, train wrecks, political conventions, murders, and international tensions.
Washington briefing asserts the Supreme Court has upheld much of the income tax law while striking key provisions. Landlords and bondholders are exempt from taxation, while rents, certain bonds, and other incomes face revised rules. Decision expected soon, with large revisions possible and returns due April 15.
Illinois senate actions include passage of a Torrens land title bill with three dissenting votes, replacing complex examinations with a registry system. additional measures include funding for state employes, a statue for Jacques Marquette, and travel through third readings on several bills. The house advanced pension, education, and public welfare measures, including kindergarten school authorizations and anti-Catholic bill developments.
The national gathering of Army of the Tennessee survivors begins at Shiloh with northern and southern delegations, aiming for a day of blue and gray fraternization. Attendance is building for today’s formal exercises as governors appoint reps from Illinois Iowa Indiana and other states including Tennessee Mississippi Kentucky.
The piece notes Frances Willard and Lady Henry Somerset bolstering women's bicycle sport. It contrasts Australian and American mile records, cites J. W. Parsons as a top rider, and covers tubing gauge versus diameter, spoke material, and wheel repairs. It warns that improper cone placement on a front wheel can cause the spindle to lock and fail catastrophically.
Public notices Hood sarsaparilla marketed as the best spring medicine to purify blood and strengthen health. Advertisements claim that it improves appetite and relieves headaches and rheumatism with testimonials from Boston readers describing drastic personal and family health gains.
Multiple 19th century clippings describe Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for incurable cases. Lists Toledo vendors J Cuesey Co west truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and Hall’s Family Pills. Also includes fashion of humorous quotes and travel ads for Crescent Route and Cincinnati office.
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