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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1895
Page
5
A Boston Transcript item explains how perceived room draughts arise from warm air rising to cool glass and falling, with cures including curtain adjustment and weather stripping. The author notes daylight draughts are common in heated homes and lamps reduce the effect.
A collection includes varied cures for blues from walks to problem solving with a Salvation Army view and a note on midlife fatigue. Also provided are detailed mince meat ingredients and method from Good Health, listing meats, suet, apples, raisins, spices, sugar, and liquids.
The New York Post describes evening slippers in black patent leather with perforated toes revealing bright colors. Scarlet cerise and greens form foundation hues, with black suede options featuring patent tips and rosettes of gauze. Patterns include black and white styles with perforations showing white kid beneath and matching suedes to gowns.
A hunter in a ten foot red cypress boat near Shaw's grove confronts a fourteen foot alligator. After a fierce chase the narrator strikes the gator in the eyes then sinks it with a final blow, the beast found later sunning and shot. The tale notes the gator’s age around eighty and claims the animal attacked because the boat was red.
The article outlines Rome's moneyed shift from copper to silver, then bimetallic currency after Carthage, and tracks wealth concentration under Julius Caesar and Augustus. It notes high usury profits, with Antony and Caesar owing large sums, Cicero’s modest fortune versus creditors, and regional taxation pressures driving brutal interest rates.
Mrs J I Coo of Omaha Nebraska describes years of crippling spells and liver illness with narcotic dependency. After medical advice and failed treatments she found relief through three Christian Science treatments, praising practitioners as devoted Bible students and liberal supporters.
A historical note traces playing cards to 14th century France and earlier origins with various peoples. It mentions King Charles VI and lists suits and face cards. The Burlington Route passenger department offers a pack by mail for fifteen cents plus postage, with maps and timetables from W. J. C. Kenyon at St. Paul Minnesota and notes the railway’s reach across several states.
A list of new patents awarded to Illinois inventors reported by C. A. Snow & Co. includes improvements in wire fence stay by H. Buck Mt. Morris, a lock by J. E. Mitchell Elgin, textile fabric for tub ing envelopes by J. F. Palmer Riverside, adjustable table by G. Shear and A. Y. Quinlan Joliet, a fun attachment by R. Taggart Decatur, and a dish cleaner by B. Yancey Carlinville.
An ad touts Lanark as the best place to buy furniture, claiming lower prices than Chicago and superior quality. It offers beds, woven wire springs, mattresses, cots, bedroom suites, lounges and upholstery with stark price points and urges customers to visit the Lanark corner store.
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