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Newspaper
Lanark Gazette
Location
Lanark, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1892
Page
3
Milledgeville visitor and various town news recounts social calls in Lanark Be loit Beloit and surrounding area. Mentions arrivals deaths bank opening Columbus Day plans school celebrations and a demonstration of a windmill power converter at Wm Slye’s farm.
Be L Hughes in Chicago on business. Warble family funerals and Lanark visits follow. Mrs Warble dies, Oscar Warble marries in Wichita the same night. Local clubs open, Glad tidings of new Pearl Street residence, and a drowning suicide in Savanna. Also notices of auctions, a photo from Coffeyville Dalton gang incident, and a Bill Nye definition of a newspaper.
Obituary notices record Elizabeth Mippiekacr Middlekauff born Bakersville Maryland 1834 died Lanark October 6 1892 on their thirty fifth anniversary of marriage buried Adeline Illinois October 8. Mention of her husband one daughter four sons and praises of motherhood and citizenship. Also brief death notices for Warble Warble family and Fletcher family with service details and local condolences from Lanark Lyceum.
A historic meditation links Columbus Day to Chicago events on October 20 and 22, urging travel via the Burlington line with tickets through agents. The piece notes centuries of celebration, invites readers to plan, and ends with an ad for De Witt’s Little Early Risers to ease dyspepsia.
A testimonial row of remedies and patent medicines including De Witts Witch Hazel Salve curing itching piles, Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion claiming 80 minutes, plus various salves and tonics advertised by druggists J. A. Allemony and H. S. Puterbaugh. Also notices an Illinois excursion to Oklahoma and a promotional essay on Beatty’s Pianos and Organs and a summer trip via the Northern Pacific Railroad to Yellowstone and Alaska with contact for details.
A mix of old time ads lists subscriptions for a matrimonial journal, De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, One Minute Cough Cure, Chamberlain remedies, and Dr Bixler's Tonic Food for Poultry. Includes claims of cures, testimonials, and druggist notices from Puterbaugh Droggist and related merchants.
Describes rich agricultural land in the uplands and timber regions of Arkansas with wheat rye oats cotton grasses and cabinet and ship timber. Announces round trip railroad fares on August 30 September 27 and October 25 1892 and tickets via Lanark Illinois call Local Agent Mo Pacific R R Lanark IL or I I Dean Lanark IL for pamphlets.
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