Junior Gazette member tours mountains with friends
The writer and Fred Gear recount a journey from Lanark to Colorado Springs and Manitou, noting Pike's Peak scenes, crowded trains, and humorous travel misadventures. They plan a Denver visit, meet old Topeka acquaintances, and mention local news like the Masonic excursion and town happenings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred
Straddle Creek
Chicago
Ellis Moore
L. T. Bray
Dearborn Street
Santa Fe
Joliet
Wisconsin
Pittsburg
Gear
Topeka
R. R
George R. Peck
Denver
Kansas City
Elmer S. Emmett
E. L. Copeland
Emporia
Emmett
Kansas
Chase County
Tar Gazette
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Garden of the Gods
Pike's Peak
Fred Gear
Wichita
Quiet Lincoln Park camping trip and local industry notes
SHANNON SIFTINGS reports Mrs. R. M. Telfer and family plan time camping in Lincoln Park Rockford Illinois. local threshing crews buy new threshers as there is unusually large grain to thresh. Frank Barkley and Sid Geramy faced a magistrate for disturbing the quiet. light fines issued. W H Barnes wed Miss Jennie Shiley at the bride’s home in a quiet ceremony. couple left for Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Telfer
Lincoln Park
Rockford
Ill
Frank Barkley
Sid Geramy
W. H. Barnes
Jennie Shiley
Denver
Chadwick Chips Seeks Support for Zugschwert Lohrman Firm
Town notes warm weather but growing activity as Zugschwert and Lohrman move in to aid local progress. Edith Emma Horning visit Mt. Carroll families, Miss Zack from Mt Carroll visits Mrs. Walters, baby nearly drowns but revived after rolling on sidewalk. Local trips to Milledgeville and Denver noted. Aug 12 horse sale planned. buyers from Chicago expected. H L Shirk family visited Shannon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lohrman
Lanark
Zugschwert and Lohrman
Edith
Emma Horning
John Smith
Miss Zack
Mt. Carroll
James Walters
John Heybeck
Denver
Col
Chadwick
Chicago
Maple Grove Murmurs
Maple Grove notes harvest progress and local happenings. Miss Addie Grossman returns from Chicago for a surgical operation under Dr Wales. Several residents including Theo Cotta and Bertha Miller suffer measles. Ben Jones adds a new mule to replace a damaged horse. Rahn Dinner extend stacker. Mary Coutts and Mrs Rahn face health issues. Local visits include Henry Ott and reflections on Sunday school delegates to Thomson convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Addie Grossman
Chicago
Dr. Wales
Theo
Cotta
Shiley
Maple Grove
George Nichols
Jacob Michal
L. S. Miller
Thomson
The Great Show and Miracle Cure Advertisements
A garbled promotional piece extols Chicago's World Fair as a marvel and touts Downing’s Culisaya Compound and Stramonium Liniment as universal cures. It claims guaranteed kidney liver cures, refunds if unsatisfied, and cites Puterbaugh the Druggist in Clarksville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Downing
Puterbaugh
Low Rates to the West on Harvest Excursions by Rock Island
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway offers half-fare tickets for three Harvest Excursions on August 20, September 27, and October 25 with details via local agents or mail. Advertisements urge remedies and products for health, rail routes, and livestock listings, highlighting Cham Berlin’s Coke Cholera and Diarrhoea Kennedy, Dr King’s New Discovery, Electric Bitters, and other cures with local druggists. Also noted are livestock offerings at Rigeland farm near Lanark and a Burlington Route reduced-rate bulletin for Illinois fairs and the St. Louis Exposition with specific sale dates and return windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Burlington
Peoria
Dubuque
Eastern Iowa Agricultural Association
Davenport
Illinois
Hazelhurst
St. Louis
Savanna
Milledgeville
Daggetts
Lively matrimonial ads and patent medicine page
An advertisement page promotes subscription offers for a matrimonial journal, lists multiple patent medicines and tonics including De Witt's Little Early Risers and Beatt y's organs, and claims cures for constipation headaches and blood cleansing. Local druggists Puterbaugh and Allemong market medicines and Castoria for children.
Pioneering cures and sales pitch fill a 19th century ad page
An advertising column touts De Witt's Little Early Risers as the smallest cure pills and Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the world’s best for skin issues, with money back guarantees. It promotes Chamberlain's Colic Remedy, Beatty pianos and organs, Downing's Cough Elixir, and a local druggist Puterbaugh-Dingwist, promising vast future sales and nationwide reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.M. Banges
Chatsworth
Til
Chamberlain
Puterbaugh
de Witt
Bucklen
H.S. Puterbaugh
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the Lanark Gazette
Gazette Firm
Shannon
Howard Curtz
Jerry Glasser
Jefferson Barnes
Shannon Siftings
Chadwick Chips
Sam Spahr and Son
H. L. Shirk
Bertha
Ben Jones
Rahn & Dinner
Mary Coutts
C. Rahn
Wales
Henry Ott
J. A. Lander
Clarksburg
Sebastian
Big Island
Chamberlin
R. C. Tinsley
O. G. Barford
Herris Creek
Amherst Co
Dr. King
H. S. Peterbaugh
H .S. Puterbaugh
Dr King
H. Puterbaugh
Rigeland Farm
Kirklevington
Poland
Rowland, Lanark, Ll
Tommy Atkins
Harper’s Weekly
Alvin H. Lyndenham
U.S. A
Frederic Jemington
J.D. J . Kelley
Naval Reserve
Orange Blossoms
Yarmouthport
Mass
Beatty
Bt. Patrick's Ville
Woolford
J. H. Allemony
Lanark, al
Mra. L
de Witt’s.—Puterbaugh
Bratty
Castoria
Dr. Bixler
W. W. Whitmore
Grocer
J. H. Allemong
C. H. Shawen
Wellsville
Kan
Paterbaugh
Puterbaugh-Dingwist
Beatty’s Pianos and Organs
Daniel P. Beatty
Washington, N. J
Fipkens Scored
Miles
Nervine
Herves
Mires
Prita
Druzuista
Dr. Biles cd. Co
Elkhart
Ind
CG. Rowland
A. Wolf Cashier
TRE Exchange Bank
Lanark, Ill
Amos Wolf
Dayto Wor
Jolly R. WoLf
C. Rowland
Notary Public
H. Reid Staley
Dem Tiss T
N.R Rose
City Dray
J. M. Glotfelty
Justice of the Peace
West
P.O
J. T. Borman
Lanark, Illinois
D. Miller's Elevator
C. W. Middlekauff
Attorne
Ofice Over Corner Drug Store
A. F. Lohrman
Empire Steam Laundry
Savanna, Ill
J. T. Jacobs
Old Stand
Witnois
Ivanhoe Camp
Garin
V. C
C. Clemmer
Rock Creek
Rhodes
F. A. Emer
Sec
J.A Wrowen
N. G
DR. Miles
Indiana
John
DR. Miles Medical CO
Elkhart, Ind
Lam
Peter Horner
J. A. Walker
WRT
Broad Street
Robt. Teachout
East Side
John H. Shaffer
Mi. CG. Dihk
Postoffice
J. C. Hanson
Lower Broad Street
C. E. Olmstead
J. F. Brown
J. D. Renner
Singer Manufacturing Company
H. W. Hartzell
D.C
BR. Gust
Wim. Strickler
Daily Express
C. C. Wroughton
Milledgeville Station
W. A. Peecher
Lineables of
Hell
Ash P
Oil Bluffs
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Goaroas A. M
Chica
Racine
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Freeport
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Monarch
Senour Mfg. Co
Eldredge
Eldredge Manufacturing CO
Belvidere, Ill
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Pacife Ry
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John Sebastian
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