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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1892
Page
6
The Nashville periodical praises Beach and Bowers Monster Shows and Trained Animal Exhibition as the best in years and notes their unlimited satisfaction with audiences. Miscellaneous items include a joke about a bachelor, a cough remedy ad, a Longfellow Evangeline edition promo, and local ads for farm equipment and pianos.
The maiden aunt Sarah is kept indoors by a sprained ankle as Wesley Hooker brings sensational, half true rumors of a rotted box containing bones found behind Lawyer Kaynipp's office. The tale sparks a family mockery and a tense exchange at supper, ending with Wesley sent to bed without supper and retreating to a cheap novel.
Dr Simon reports in English towns that drainage lowering subsoil moisture reduces consumption deaths, with Salisbury down 49 percent and Ely 47 percent. In the Guards, ventilation cut mortality from 125 to 16.9 per 10000 by 1875. Pepper’s Pennsylvania survey links low elevation and high rainfall to higher mortality, while hemlock regions show immunity. heredity and infection gain recognition.
In Drake's Magazine via C N Hood a scene unfolds of Susie Inswim venting about a raucous afternoon downtown. She recalls crowded streetcars, a selfish crowd at Ball and Ketchum, and rude post office lines as she longs for gentler manners among women and contemplates future nuptials with Mr Wally.
In a small village a cobbler tries to collect a past due debt from an old man named Uncle Taylor. The cobbler provokes a fight and is decisively beaten, turning the confrontation into a public spectacle. After the scuffle, onlookers ask if the cobbler was truly defeated.
A lively small town journal page features a collage of advertisements and notices. Beattie’s Pianos, Castoria for babies and children, De Witt's Sarsaparilla cures, and various tonics flood the page along with claims of horses’ liniments, and local druggist Puterbaugh promoting medicines. mentions Monona Lake Assembly trip details and electric bitters success stories.
A fragmented ad-heavy column touts Bucklow's Arnica Salve for cuts and eruptions with a money-back guarantee, plus various patent medicine pitches for Chamberlain's Colic Remedy and Downing's Liniment. It also features a long testimonial about Downing's Calisaya Compound kidney and liver cure and ends with praise for Hon. Daniel F. Beatty and Beatty's Pianos and Organs.
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