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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1889
Page
3
Long list of incidents from the period reports arsons, drownings, suicides, deaths in accidents, industry strikes, and fires across towns like Tarentum Montgomery Tipton Norfolk and Philadelphia. Mentions include a massacre intent and a plan for Sioux land negotiations alongside political appointments and public notices.
A sweep of reports from the 17th details cholera in the Philippine Islands with massive casualties, emigration surges from Liverpool to the Americas, and Nihilistic plots in Russia. Other items include mine disasters in Austria, fires in Canada and Germany, and various crimes and social disturbances across Europe and North America.
The Illinois Senate passes bills to rotate half the county board members annually, regulate primary elections, and set nine directors for county mutual hive stock insurers. It adds rape and arson to habitual criminal offenses, imposes life imprisonment with parole after three such convictions, and discusses tax and court provisions as well as a ship canal survey proposal.
Two men Kurly and Reilly, workers from the Bureau of Incumbrances, were dragged from a third story window at the St Omer Hotel Sixth Avenue and Twenty third Street by a rope attached to a falling telegraph pole. One died at a police station the other was injured and sent to New York Hospital with multiple fractures and serious wounds. Contractor Busby and Inspector Roth faced arrest. Busby was released while Roth was sent to the coroner.
In Manisse City Michigan on April 1 a 34 year old Matilde Williams admitted to doctors she poisoned her parents with a tab in a spoonful of rough on rats. James Williams and wife were taken ill. Matilde, the daughter, had allied with a cowboy act and faced opposition from her father and mother who opposed her stage ambitions.
Society notes report fashion shifts in New York with a move from Indian clubs to football, a preference for dark granite monuments over white marble, and a change in letter salutation from My Dear Mr/Miss to Dear Mr/Dear Miss as a sign of greater formality.
Notes describe a Berlin visit by Mrs Geo A Zoller with detailed tour of Charlottenburg the Frederick the Great era palace the mausoleum and gardens. She recounts church services receptions at clergyman Stuckenburgs lectures on socialism and a Sunday observance discussion led by Countess Waldersee with American and English ladies.
Weather rides on splendid rains as Channie Griswold struggles. A school election Saturday night chose J. L. Malott director for three years. Lightning hits a Bay Sutherland barn injuring a horse and a colt nearby. Darius Sutherland visits Milo Bradford relatives before continuing home. Religious meeting led by Brother Clement closes with additions and regrets.
An early American nerve health warning notes rising nervous disorders including indigestion headaches and sleeplessness. It promotes Dr Miles' Nervine as a non morphine remedy and offers sample bottles at Dr Powell's Drug Store.
River News reports from Sperry recount steamer traffic with eight ice barges on Jack Frost and E. M. Norton from Peru to St Louis, Jim Watson carrying eight stone barges to Campville, and other boats. It notes Jack Frost laid up yesterday due to high wind and mentions a spring fish harvest by Princeton youths.
An old advertising line highlights Castoria as a remedy used through generations from childhood illness to motherhood. The repetitive slogan emphasizes Castoria as a trusted product for children and adults alike.
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