18 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1872
Page
1
A poetic reminiscence recalls a child’s journey from earth to heaven. The speaker longs for divine welcome, imagining a guardian seal of comfort as angels open the door and God assigns a place for the departed child. Parents and kin await above the ladder in quiet sorrow and tender hope.
Augustus C Diggins recounts the Independence Inyo County quake of two weeks earlier. He details winds, tremors, collapsing adobe houses, thunderous subterranean noises, landslides, rockfalls, and fumaroles. The valley is torn, fires light and die, springs burst, rivers rise, and the landscape alters as stricken residents flee toward Aurora and Fish Springs.
A New York obituary lauds Professor Morse as the builder of a universal telegraphic machine. It extols his genius, compares his impact to enduring peace, and contrasts his quiet end with the fame of others while praising his contribution to global knowledge and language. His legacy is celebrated as enduring beyond monuments.
The passage lauds a man who pioneered long distance telegraph or similar wire networks. It portrays his work as connecting continents and oceans, binding peoples in mutual intelligence, and earning the respect of civilized nations. It notes his later years, honors, and a noble, untarnished reputation, ending with the thought that death is an apotheosis.
The Oceanus steamed from Red River for St Louis when near Brooks Point a boiler exploded at four a m. The wreck burned to the water edge. About 100 aboard with eighty believed lost. Survivors rescued by Belle of St Louis. Names omitted. Descriptions of the scene and rescue efforts fill the report along with conjecture on the cause.
An Eastern exchange notes substantial progress in farming over the last twenty five years with farms becoming more productive and attractive. Wealthier farmers invest in appearance, taste and cultivation, seeing outward beauty boost market value and personal enjoyment while strengthening community reputation.
New York reports detail the fatal injuries of Joseph Whittle, lion tamer for O'Brien's circus, attacked in a cage by a strange lion. Whittle, attempting a painting act, was seized, mauled, and died from the wounds after brave attempts by associates to free him.
A compact collection of witty snippets and rural foibles pulled from a 19th century newspaper page. It features jokes about gunsmiths, philosophers, missing wives, cannibals and in laws, a schoolroom exchange on a father’s name, a widower’s grim punch line about pills, and an Easter vestment gift order to a rector.
A garbled curio of miscellaneous figures from a 19th century paper notes Portland endured seventy days of sleighing the Cape Ann lighthouse keeper’s twenty nine year tenure, and Persia and Russian customs. It records diamonds found in a West India peahen, Philadelphia parks acreage, and diverse curiosities about languages, gas works, and a California earthquake effect. It also mentions cannibalism estimates, rattlesnake discoveries in Arkansas, a cockle shell Atlantic crossing by Capt Birch, a lengthy Talbot Berkeley inheritance suit, Milwaukee Telegraph Company’s street line, and a boyish use of Morse toys for storms.
A hostler in Iowa City struck a horse unprovoked. Days later the horse bit the hostler, then seized his arm and shook him, mangling it severely before a surgeon dressed the wounds.
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