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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1895
Page
6
Lanark firm produces eight of eleven transatlantic cables and makes 58 miles of cable daily. A Kansas City theater manager wins praise for a hat etiquette request that led ladies to remove hats. Faverre Co Kentucky improves roads drawing regional business, while German clocks announce hours and offer multilingual voices.
William M Walport Astor has spent two million dollars on his London newspaper ventures and now seeks to reestablish American citizenship. The remark underscores the value of practical experience over formal schooling.
The steamer Ellie rests in 126 feet of water. If reports prove true that a million dollars in gold went down with her, salvage efforts would raise the vessel from the English Channel bed.
An excerpt notes that opposition to religion is led by the academy's younger generation and cites figures such as Voltaire and Renan as influence. The piece highlights the power of these scholars within academic circles and their role in shaping modern religious critique.
The article notes wide open air living in Australia and frontier life with people sleeping outdoors. It mentions Queen Victoria knitting and Saxony’s queen cooking in the kitchen. Marguerite Rouyenval near Saint Quentin reportedly slept eleven years. Hannah North of Augusta Maine began a Thanksgiving pie gift to county jail prisoners, continued through generations.
A discussion on perforating stamps cites a machine with 300 needles producing about 180 million punchings daily causing rapid wear on die plates. It contrasts brass and steel plates wearing out quickly and oddly notes oysters opening shells when tide rises after being removed from the sea to feed.
A Hampstead stamp travels 25000 miles before slipping into a Tasmania newspaper round. The postcard is found in Tasmania and sent back to the sender in a follow up letter.
The Kansas legislature favors women by allowing municipal election registration with the claim mover 21 rather than exact age. The piece notes broad registration potential and cites other historical anecdotes about gold in oceans, hotel lobby humor, Delaware temperance moves, and Mme Modjeska barred by the Russian czar.
Treasury officials state dividends from foreign or domestic firms doing business abroad are taxable income. A supreme court critic called the income tax robbery. February exports and imports show a trade gap of 58 dollars and 5.6 million respectively. Gold exports near 55.6 million with imports of 16 million. Immigrant arrivals February 9,008. eight-month total 196,129. Captain Shepard, revenue service chief, died of pneumonia at home in Washington. Clearing house week totals reach 898 million. business failures rise to 266 in a week. State and national political moves include Pennsylvania teachers banned from insignia, Lehigh Valley wreck injuring 50, Alfred murder trial hunger, Hungary deaths, and party conventions in Rhode Island. Connecticut repeals blue laws. Fires cause 100000 damage in Hartford. Sheriff killed in Batavia after resisting arrest. pair killed by train in Milburn. Erastus Wiman granted new trial. Cusuman Dros insolvency with 250000 liabilities.
A riot sparked by white dock laborers in New Orleans left five dead and twenty seriously injured as British vessels were shot at and a purser fatally wounded. Across the country reports tell of Italians killed in Colorado mine camps, a mad dog threat near Flora Illinois, and political fights over women’s suffrage in Illinois. Court actions include embezzlement cases in Indiana and Oklahoma’s first legal hanging, while weather and fires disrupt Kansas City and Waupun business districts. A hop record by Thomas Hexpricks tops Kentucky’s Danville meet.
A violent windstorm near Eufaula Alabama swept away buildings trees and fences causing heavy losses. The report mentions fires in several towns and multiple fatalities in various incidents across several states.
War tensions flare as Spain seeks to quell Cuba rebellion with twelve thousand troops. Across continents, notable deaths occur including Charles Frederick Worth in Paris and Rev. George Conkling Knapp in Bitlis. Weathered incidents include ship seizures, fires, drownings, and a broad mix of political shifts and disasters worldwide.
Henry Arnold of Sterling won an appeal over Carl Timmig who sued for 100 in services for finding him a wife. The court ruled matrimonial brokerage not a legal business in Illinois, ending the dispute and leaving Timmig with 55. The story tracks multiple local deaths, wills, and town notices across the state, including judges, farmers, and city officials.
Illinois legislative notes from Springfield in mid March cover bills on monuments, voter rights for township officers, ethics investigations, liquor proximity near colleges, street railways, and judiciary reforms. Highlights include Lovejoy monument funding, University of Illinois homeopathic school, and salary debates for general assembly members.
AvpreY Brearpsiey writes a play mirroring his art. Berlin plans an international art exhibition led by Anton von Werner. Narbonne uncovers an 86 foot square Roman mosaic near the cemetery. A single buyer buys all original Du Maurier drawings in Trilby and Peter Ibbetson for 7500 dollars. Henri Rocurrori returns to Paris after exile and accumulates wealth from art dealing and Figaro salary of 30 000 francs yearly.
A pair of reflective poems on youth, ambition, and restraint. The first laments vanities and the lure of fame before maturity reveals true greatness. The second compares a caged canary’s confinement with the urge for prayer and song, finding solace in God's wide world and shared sorrow.
A compact collage of literary fragments from Jennie L. Lyall and Clark W. Bryan. The passages praise living flowers of love and lament cruel deeds, then celebrate a child’s charm in a playful fragment about Our Little Tot with editorial snippets from Christian Work and Good Housekeeping.
The Iron Mountain Route offers April 2 and April 30 excursion tickets to Arkansas Lake Charles La and Texas with one fare round trip plus $2, and April 30 one fare round trip to the Southeast with liberal limits and stop overs. Full details and pamphlets available from agents or H C Townsend, General Passenger Agent St Louis.
Hood's Sarsaparilla touts itself as the best spring medicine with unmatched cures and the largest sales among sarsaparillas. A testimonial from Mus. 8. Asuworru of Eaton Ohio claims renewed health after two bottles, noting restored appetite, reduced headaches, and sustained energy for daily work.
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