This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 11 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1896
Page
4
Lanark Gazette reports local happenings including store openings, visits, and medical news. Mentions A Walner’s store, Miss Lucy McNamar’s illness, repairs on W H Hess house, and a forthcoming Old Settlers day events with regional speakers and plans for Maple Park reunion preparations. Includes church services, marriages, and community notices.
Mt Carroll hosting Morris opens a busy baseball section with Shannon champions facing Lanark on old settlers day. Lanark beats Mt Carroll 8-1, Renner umpired, Risley backs Lanark, while new free admission rules spark local talk. Miss Wolfley obituary recalls a longtime Lanark resident and community worker.
Interior view of J. A. Walker's Shoe Store in Lanark Illinois promotes cheap prices while promising good merchandise and true value for money.
Citizens of Lanark meet to organize the Old Settlers Reunion on August 20 1896. Committees cover program arrangements amusements and refreshments. Details include train arrivals reception at depot band escort to park and railroad fare. Events feature base ball bicycle races foot races and a grand dance with address by local officials and reminiscences by old settlers.
Fragmentary listing describes dress goods and patterns with prices for wool, Percales, plaids, and muslin. Mentions duck cloth and wool items with cents per yard and incomplete figures for sale or display in a local shop.
Advertisement notes women's seamless fast black hosiery in two sizes with price mentions. Mentions 10e and 15e values with unclear percent symbol after. No clear brand or store name.
A compact listing of fabrics and sewing notions with prices. Cottonade wool Kentucky jeans at 50 cents per yard equivalents, spools of cotton and silk thread, best needles and pins, safety pins, hooks and eyes, curling iron, dress raid items and miscellaneous small hardware priced in cents and dollars. The entry reads like a 19th or early 20th century dry goods catalog page.
The piece urges timely eye care from specialists not stores. It warns against self fitting and unqualified opticians, touts diplomas and training, links eye defects to nervous illness and suggests free eye testing with a call to seek professional assessment rather than self treatment.
Local mentions include visitors and travels of Mitchells and relatives, cattle loss by lightning, teachers institute plans, and short notices on residents from Dixon to Sitka. Lanark market data and Hood’s remedies are noted along with general community chatter and grain and stock updates.
Lanark City Council passes an ordinance restricting retail sale of farm produce from wagons on Broad Street between Carroll and Franklin, with continuation rules to Carroll and Locust on the west side. Violators face fines from 25 to 85 dollars per offense. Effective ten days after publication. Published August 12, 1896.
The Frances Shimer Academy announces fall term starting Tuesday September 15 1896. The school bills itself as a college preparatory affiliate of the University of Chicago with strong music and art departments and a Manual Labor program aiding students with limited means. An introductory course assists those deficient in common English. For particulars address the seminary’s contact.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.