Why what do you get with lwp-download ?

$ lwp-download http://www.herald-journal.com/government/publicnotices/
+2015-legals/hj010515.html
Saving to 'hj010515.html'...
27.6 KB received in 0 seconds (1.01e+003 KB/sec)
[download]

Can anyone explain what I am missing ?

You're using LWP the hard way ... without WWW::Mechanize :)

Also, also item 4 from Basic debugging checklist use Data::Dump::dd instead of plain print for debugging

All works the same for me perl -MWWW::Mechanize -e " $ua = WWW::Mechanize->new; $ua->show_progress(1); $ua->get( shift ); print $ua->content; " -- http://www.herald-journal.com/government/publicnotices/2015-legals/hj010515.html