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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1895
Page
7
A first person account of a photographer’s meticulous and intrusive staging process to coax beauty from a plain subject. The artist reshapes posture, lights, makeup, and even body lines with devices, cushions, and retouched features to produce flattering images, leaving the subject exhausted but gratified by the resulting photographs.
The column compiles humorous exchanges from Life Texas Sittings and N W World sketching domestic strains. A husband laments mistimed manners over a hat and shopping, a wife’s rebuke, and a quip about divorce’s reach across states.
The state to seek 481570 for charitable institutions including Northern hospital eastern central southern and more. Grain inspection reports drought year lower receipts and reduced earnings. Police and legal actions include indictments of poll workers, a Chicago firm suspension, and various local deaths crimes and accidents across towns like Carterville Carbondale Lewiston Decatur Pana and Rockford.
A critique of President Cleveland’s financial policy proposals and the Democratic claim that Republican missteps created economic trouble. The piece compares party control of the House, debt reduction under Republicans, and questions whether Democratic reform would sustain financial stability. It cites Albany Journal and Toledo Blade as contemporary reactions.
A populist representative elect from Alabama plans to push a resolution demanding an investigation into President Cleveland's alleged wealth, estimating up to four million dollars since 1888. The piece notes rumors of vast gains, cites past Red Top property profits, and mentions Wall Street speculation during Cleveland's tenure.
Opinion piece argues that democratic tariff reform caused economic hardship and that voters feared the costs of change. It accuses Mr. Wilson of faulty logic and ignores countervailing facts, urging accountability for the party in power in 1892. It cites reactions from St Louis Globe-Democrat and others on sugar and policy.
A child narrator shares a whimsical visit to a royal nursery where the king and queen dine modestly, play on the floor, and forget their rank as a queen’s crown slides off and the royal dignity fades amid playful chaos. The scene ends with the child recalling the moment and a kiss of royal hand.
A reflection on quickhand swallows at dime museums and conjurer deception, noting the belief in actual swallowing versus the sleight of hand. It includes an anecdote of a duchess and a child payoff, and ends with a Cobweb Party game using colored threads and matching badges.
Chicago Inter Ocean explains snakes movement using ribs and muscles as “feet,” how they swallow prey by spreading bones, shedding skin, climbing and running without legs, and notes snakes can outrun boys with sticks as readers learn curious snake traits.
Travelers note African hair ornaments and elaborate styles among Congo women and Rua men. Descriptions include clay disks, beards rolled into mud balls, and braided crowns resembling hats or horns. The piece also mentions hair dyes, henna indigo mixtures, and pride in adornment without harming the brain. Two Delaware boys survive a foggy voyage to Europe and are rescued by a Hamburg-bound steamer, earning the captain’s thanks.
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