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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1892
Page
5
Elizabeth forms a brick stock company. Freeport ad trends show shoe and canning plans falter. A Freeport tobacco dealer, Frank Stoessinger, is jailed in Chicago after an internal revenue case tied to misbranding products. witness Jerome Kuns is named.
Citizens urged to value birds for crop protection. The Illinois statute bans killing many birds and nests with a five dollar fine per bird, with exceptions for landowners protecting fruit crops and restrictions on eggs of prairie chickens and other fowl.
Local period advertisement notes the Biennial Turnfest in Freeport June 11–15 with excursion tickets June 10–15 at 1 1/3 fare, good return June 16, plus various patent medicines and endorsements. Items include Downing’s Liniment, Miles remedies, and cautions about heart and nervous complaints with dealer H. S. Puterbaugh assisting sales.
Sealed bids will be received by the Rock Creek commissioners on June 25 1892 for furnishing material and constructing about 50 rods of macadamized road near David Gordon residence. Bids open at 1 PM in Lanark J M Glottelty's courtroom. Plans at town clerk's office. Right to reject any bids. Dated May 25 1892 Rock Creek Illinois.
The advertisement touts the Locked Wire Fence as the cheapest strongest and most durable fencing option. It adapts to heat and cold with a springy crimp and uses heavy spring steel stays locked by Bessemer clamps to prevent sagging. It allows distant posts and suits various fence types. Contact T A Cotta in Nursery Illinois for materials and rights.
Advertisements tout Down ing's Calisayva Compound as a cure reinforcing kidney function and liver cleansing. It claims to purify blood and prevent disease, sold by H S Puterbaugh with a guarantee of cure. Also promotes Little Early Riser pill for longevity and Better living. Also describes Strawberry Roan foal Grover P bred from notable stock and seeks breeding enquiries.
A 12 foot gate of Locked Wire Fencing is advertised for lawn fencing. For pricing or sales contact T A Cotta Nursery Ill.
Mr Levi Schmucker brings an Oldenburg coach stallion to Lanark Eno tu No 389 sired by government approved Epo1 The dark dapple brown four year old 16 hands weighs 1500 pounds and has heavy bone Muscular build Standing for 15 per foal Breeders must submit names and number of mares The first on the list receives a colt free.
The store promotes a complete line of Cultivators Mowers Hay Loaders and Binders as the city’s only dealer specializing in this line of goods and invites customers to trade there. It emphasizes affordability due to this specialty.
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