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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1892
Page
7
A woman admires a glowing check in a glass and her husband remarks on her beauty. She explains she keeps cool for her husband, not herself, and he responds with a warm kiss and praise, calling her more than beautiful for being good. A Cape Cod item.
The piece discusses alligator hunting in the American South noting profitability of skins, rarity of fourteen foot specimens, and weak back skin versus vulnerable eyes. It recounts a winter 87-88 Florida hunt on the St Johns River with a five-gator haul worth about seventy five dollars in skins. It explains two hunting methods fire-jacking and daytime floating, dangers of mother alligators, and hunter caution about swamp rescues.
From a receiver’s view gifts fall into wanted and unwanted. Focus on giver happiness to accept costly gifts without guilt. Children epitomize graceful receiving, while a zoo monkey demonstrates sleep comfort and tail pillows. English money-lenders joke concludes.
A. P. Patton, a Pike county fugitive wanted for raising checks on teachers and a school district, shot himself as officers forced entry in St. Louis. He was 28, son of A. Tatton, hotel keeper at Carrollton, Greene county.
The United States plans a March 15 proclamation to restore duties on key goods as retaliation against nations not embracing reciprocity. Brazil Spain Puerto Rico Santo Domingo Guatemala El Salvador Costa Rica British West Indies Germany are cited. negotiations with Peru Ecuador and others continue. Austria Hungary, Haiti and Spain for the Philippines face notices. France and others near stages to delay notices.
A senate bill proposes the national government loan Indiana $100,000,000 in treasury notes to be secured by land mortgages. The plan includes a 1 percent semiannual tax to support interest and mortgage foreclosures if unpaid. Per capita limits and rental provisions shield borrowers but trigger foreclosure and U.S. bid procedures if no bidder.
Mercury in catarrh ointments can impair smell and affect the senses. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to be mercury free and internal, made by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Testimonials free, sold by druggists for a stated price.
A quirky feature column notes that a 3 inch weekly display ad from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. uses a single repeated word among all others each week and invites readers to identify it. The piece laughs at old fashioned moonlight tests and references various ad lines and quotes from different papers.
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