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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1892
Page
3
A book-keeper daydreams of a distant vacation in Daisytown five years past, drifting through emerald meadows and riverscapes while absentmindedly misplacing ink and counting imaginary sums. His longing happiness ties to a past romance, as he imagines returning with a partner to the familiar paradise.
A collection of humorous episodes featuring Bishop Wilberforce recalling his memory for faces and handling candidacies, village lessons, and a Labrador of misattribution. Also notes Brooklyn Library flubs in misheard or misread titles, with readers confusing names and titles in a rapid-fire parade of malapropisms.
Broad miscellany cites Burlington widows, a nine foot vulture hauling a sheep in California, steel lace collars for women, General Jackson’s pipe, a Burlington dog bite tale, three annual catawba crops in Camilla, Ga, and thunderstorm affected soft shell crabs. Notes on the American Geographical Society on population capacity, a Oregon clergyman wedding delay, England defense scare with admiral and general pay rolls, and unexpected animal sightings. Ends with inventions and race classification debates privileging language analysis to elevate American Indians.
A Peripatetic sewing machine agent recalls a failed campaign in Way Cross Georgia where local opposition halted his ads and sparked tar and feather threats. The piece moves to a history of bowling from ancient England to ten pins, detailing equipment costs and play rules as well as a Philadelphia stove invention and notes on science and industry.
An editorial contrasts imported French and German clocks with American timepieces, arguing foreign clocks are bought for style and prestige rather than accuracy. The piece notes American clocks are cheaper and better timekeepers, with French and German names appealing to buyers for non utilitarian reasons. It attributes broader import trends to national tastes and mentions a humorous aside about marriage economics from a Detroit press snippet.
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