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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1892
Page
4
A narrated exchange between two lovers ends with a quiet farewell. The speaker notes wealth and social status block a hoped union while a rival suitor remains silent about his feelings. The poem contemplates love, wealth, and the unspoken depths of a woman's heart.
In a frontier tale, Governor signs a pardon for Matt Henderson after a campaign by villagers. Hal Kruger races fifty miles through wolves to deliver the pardon, aided by his horse Billy, facing danger on frozen lakes. The sheriff declares Henderson free as Hal is carried in wounded, later marrying Jennie with the governor and others in attendance.
A story from the Pittsburgh Times recounts a park lake scrap over a meat morsel. A gray gander maneuvered to win the bite, outsmarting a hungry dog as his harem watched and cheered in a humorous, tense scene by the water.
The Republican national convention began in Minneapolis on June 6 with a grand concert by a thousand voices and the Second Regiment Band. Chauncey M. Depew delivered the inaugural address contrasting American freedom with Rome and praising Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Hayes, and Harrison. The piece cites state leaders and the party's unity while noting divisions within the Democratic Party over finance and policy.
A hotel clerk recalls an old countryman and his wife seeking a room. The man fears the elevator when entering the lift, then asks for a room that will not slide. Explanations clear up the confusion and he leaves content.
The article explains diatoms as microscopic plants with silica shells some a quarter inch long when magnified, capable of movement through openings in their shells and thriving in wet habitats. They are widespread globally and their fossil shells contribute to soil in places like Richmond Virginia and Berlin Germany.
The Syracuse convention adopted a Grover Cleveland platform praising the ex president. It elected a full delegation to Chicago and attacked Republican finances, arguing the surplus was a Democratic ploy and questioning tariff policy and river and harbor spending.
A historical survey argues against free trade, detailing five eras of liberal imports and their economic harms. It asserts tariff protection benefits all classes, questions internal taxes, and cites McKinley era policy and Republican platform calls for substantial internal tax repeal to support protection.
A fragmented note argues that tariffs are not taxes and that wire nails, once expensive under a tariff, have become cheaper. It claims farmers now buy nails readily, using them for posts and sheds, asserting nails are essential, affordable, and the best available.
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