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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1883
Page
6
In Boston Transcript by Bitsareth Akers, a poetic meditation imagines a city where no one dies and all live in immortal peace. Residents flourish within walls, labor and love endure, yet weariness grows as some crave the relief of death and the gift of rest finally denied.
A long, satiric sketch centers on Marquis Lafayette, a lazy, dependent youth adored by his mother Mrs. Eastershead. The tale follows family hardship, false nobility, and an invention of a string-pulled toy that becomes a profitable patent, while critiquing gentry and squandered potential.
The article reviews W H Pitt M D and the New York State Board of Health on glucose manufacture from starch, detailing acid hydrolysis, purification with chalk, and evaporation to obtain common glucose. It notes corn as a primary starting material in the US and outlines the evolution of the industry and its labor force.
A collage of quips and anecdotes from various papers. Jokes on philosophy, lawyers, and trees mingle with schoolroom puns and a home charity tale. A brief courtroom tone and a kid’s street exchange close this eclectic slice of press humor.
The San Francisco Bulletin profiles Dr Hugh J Glenn of California as a monumental wheat grower who owned vast ranches in Oregon and Nebraska, chartered ships, and sold grain in Europe by telegraph. His fortune faced a $100,000 crop loss last summer, yet his family and neighbors recall a balanced, hardworking leader and popular governor candidate.
Detroit anecdote recounts a young man escorting two girls to the Russell House. A silk umbrella slips to the bottom of the stairs prompting a blunder with an elderly man asking for his hack. The lad pretends to be the driver and waves off blame, promising to send the umbrella home by mail.
Reports note a Berkley County Virginia blacksnake derailed a beehive clash ending with the reptile dead from bee stings. A German chemist seeds butter with a lime sulfite layer for preservation and cider. Lyons France adopts cold bath typhoid treatment lowering death rates in hospitals and private practice. Alabama industry praised by the Mobile Register as farmers becoming day laborers with lean boss presence. Bowdon College chemist Carmichael patents water proofing stock and paper dishes and works on indestructible roofing material from paper pulp. A new Liverpool steamship line to Havre and six Liverpool to New Orleans ships planned, with eight vessels for the New Orleans-Havre route. Mexican discovers a plant yielding strong dyeable fiber with potential linen and silk industry impact. Iowa Shindles fiber reportedly twelve feet long. Bull’s iron and steel direct-from-ore process tested in Pittsburgh shows cost cuts. an American engineer studying the Great Wall of China notes its 1728 miles length, granite core, and towers.
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