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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1892
Page
3
Reprint from Youths' Companion Plan outlines a full Columbus Day program for Carroll County Illinois schools. Detailed steps cover assembly, flag raising, pledges, prayers, and songs, plus a strong call for civic celebration in schools and communities with veterans and patriotic groups as guards of honor.
The notice urges all teachers pupils and officials to wear the official Columbus Day badge on October 21 1802. Badges priced at 10 cents each are sold through county papers Savanna Journal Savanna Mirror Herald Carroll County Democrat Milledgeville Free Press and Lanark Shannon Express with orders due by October 10 1802. Proceeds aim to boost public school pride universal education and patriotism while aiding the county superintendent.
A large turnout packed Shannon's opera house last Saturday for a Republican rally led by Attorney C. W. Middlekauff who, without prep time, delivered a solid address on current issues. The piece also notes no school order banning marbles existed, clarifying public concerns, and reports Lanark beating Mt Carroll 8 to 5 with Risley and Otten starring in a ball game at the ball park.
The item advertises Wooler Mill 60 dress goods and blankets from Phil lips and Clemmer Broad Street with high cash offers for wool. It also contains a public notice in Carroll County for the County Court November Term A. D. 1902. John Spively is administrator de bonis non with will annexed of John W. Herkell deceased in Illinois.
The page lists numerous patent medicines and tonics, including One Minute Cough Cure, English Liniment, Spavina, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, and Downing’s Calisaya Compound, with claims of cures for coughs, lameness in horses, skin ailments, and bowel diseases. It also promotes pensions for Black Hawk war survivors, warns about malaria exposure, and features advertisements for Beatty’s Pianos and Organs, American dining quality on trains, and a summer trip via Northern Pacific routes to Yellowstone and Alaska. The tone mirrors late 19th century commerce, health cures, and travel promos.
An advertising page lists De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles and cough remedies from One Minute Cough Cure to Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It praises Little Early Risers tablets, Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion for animals, and St Patrick’s Pills, with testimonials from Mrs. Hattie Mason and C. H. Shawen. Pills, liniments, and tonics are offered by Puterbaugh Druggist and Downing, highlighting dyspepsia relief, cholera, diarrhea remedies, and eye ointments.
The Chicago Burlington and Northern Railway offers a one fare and one third round trip from Illinois stations for multiple October events. St. Louis Fair in Oct, World’s Fair Dedication in Chicago, Masonic meetings, teachers’ association in Rockford, horticultural society in Chicago, Real Estate Association in Buffalo, with varied ticket sale dates and return limits. Contact W. J. C. Rexvon for tickets and details.
Promotion for Arkansas and Missouri lands describing wheat rye oats cotton and timber resources. Mentions high value crops, timber, and farm potential in the uplands and bottoms. Announces round trip fares advertised for August 30 September 27 and October 25 1892 with tickets available at Lanark and requests for descriptive land pamphlets to contact.
Jas H Larkins local agent for the Missouri Pacific Railway at Lanark Illinois Bay 352 invites inquiries. Call at the office of I H Dean Lanark Illinois for details and arrangements.
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