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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1895
Page
1
A sprawling list of local happenings includes residents traveling to Chicago visiting relatives, new business prospects, church events and forthcoming entertainment. Calls for subscriptions to newspapers, flour and sapline product ads appear amid community notices and short personal updates.
The City Drug Store proclaims a fresh, clean stock and low prices with daily bargain sales. It offers 25 percent off hanging lamps for 30 days, actuation of wall paper at cost, and claims Carroll county leadership in mixed paint and related supplies while promoting art materials and inexpensive art studies.
Mr U F Brainard a free hand portrait artist formerly of Dubuque and late of Los Angeles Cal will be in Lanark two or three months after which time he will locate in Chicago He has been busy making portraits for Lanark people and will continue his work in town The Du buque paper hails Brainard as among the first in the United States and best in the state Also notes on local court executions and a drug firm rent dispute plus Modern Woodmen of America Illinois camp and membership figures and recent leadership plans to meet in Madison Wisconsin in 1895
In Peoria circuit court Judge Shaw ruled against Nancy J. Noel of Chicago in her suit to recover $5,000 from the Modern Woodmen of America for her husband’s death. Noel, once Peoria sheriff and politician, had been expelled from the order after joining the saloon business, which violated the order’s rules. The decision favors the fraternal society.
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