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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1892
Page
3
A Philadelphia Record excerpt argues traveling salesmen cost the nation nearly a billion dollars yearly in salaries and expenses. It estimates 250,000 wholesale travelers spend about $6 a day on travel for a remaining $997.5 million annually, plus trunks samples and depreciation. The piece shifts to domestic marriage advice in Quiver.
A new electric novelty lets a user pay a quarter and receive a snap shot after a short wait. The machine requires a fixed pose and a smile, then outputs a photograph in about five minutes. It offers two pictures for a single price if two people share a close pose. An English doctor reports 1540 cases and only one total abstainer among ancestors.
A collection of aphorisms on foresight honesty humility and social tact drawn from various newspaper quotes. It notes that true honesty is proven not proclaimed and warns against gossip arrogance and self-deception while praising courtesy and patient effort in work and friendships.
A humorous vignette follows a tailor made debutante whose social clout and wealth fail to grant her entry to heaven. St Peter quizzes her about charity, engagements, and vanity before admitting the next era of society entrants.
The New York Evening Post recounts a pre conquest Mexican game similar to football. Players used a rubber ball struck with any body part, often the hip, aiming to drive it to a wall. Games featured large courts, wagering mantles and gold, and spectators risked their cloaks as prizes.
An elderly, unassuming Jay Cooke walks among Broadways crowds, his white beard and simple attire masking a career marked by wealth, misfortune, and renewal. The piece notes his Ohio home, Sandusky connections, and a philanthropy that includes Gibraltar on Lake Erie, plus family ties and a son preaching near Philadelphia.
A Philadelphia inventor unveils a furnace that allegedly achieves complete coal combustion in a common stove. By dual air currents and a central partial vacuum, a cyclone forms in the drum, heating then cooling as air is drawn down the chimney. The maker claims four minutes to melt metals and twenty four hour coal burn.
The article explains finger nail growth at about one millimetre per week and how acute illness leaves visible ridges and thinning on the nail. It notes that nail changes reflect disease history for years, contrasts with hair loss, and mentions habits like nail biting and care tips from manicures.
A humorous survey lists common urban dangers from electric poles to wagons and overheated plumbers. The essay notes pedestrians have few rights and warns that many everyday acts pose injury risks. It cites reckless drivers laboring in haste and references courts and insurance as ineffective against these perils.
Metropolitan papers note Dr Franklin Miles of Indiana, a nervous and heart disease specialist, claims the habit of sleeping on the left side stems from a diseased heart. He cites thousands of examined cases and promotes his New Heart Cure as a remedy sold by all druggists with testimonials including Mia Benoy of Loveland. An elegant book on heart diseases is offered free.
A lighthouse keeper couple in Sand Beach Michigan with a four year old daughter suffered measles severe cough and fever. After trying Dr King’s New Discovery for two and a half bottles the child recovered. The ad claims free trial bottles at Corner Drug Store and cites multiple testimonials including a boy cured of St Vitus Dance and others cured of nervous ailments.
If you feel weak try Electric Bitters to aid liver stomach and kidneys. Sick headache relief from Bitters claims speedy permanent results. Large bottles 40 cents at Corner Drug Store. Also see Yeager Sons wagons including the Yeager Cotton Senge Wagon, advertised as a must see.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a product claim for constipation headache dyspepsia and nervousness by Puterbaugh. The text is garbled with repeated phrases and unclear context.
An antique sale pitch touts a universal salve for aches and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee at 26 cents per box. It also endorses De Witt's Little Early Risers and a syrupy tonic urging small doses for cures and revitalized appetite.
A promotional block extols De Witts Sarsaparilla for impure blood and debility and Little Early Risers pills for biliousness indigestion and inactive liver. The copy touts liver stomach and bowel effects via nerves with claims of speedy cures and samples at Lanark Drug Co and Rockford NL. Testimonials and promotional slogans follow.
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