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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1881
Page
6
Fragmentary verse celebrates Washington Territory with imagery of blossoms, trees, and endless harmonies. The lines evoke cyclical sound and nature, naming broad landscapes and a sense of vast wooden reaches across a thousand miles.
In the Red River Valley a bank manager from St Paul recalls a plains scheme involving a prairie hay seed, a forged Chicago check for 550 in greanbacks, and a frontiersman winded by ruses. The tale unfolds with two English hunters and other passengers listening to the encounter on the train.
An elderly frontier man recounts being duped by a Chicago buyer in Kandiyohi Minnesota who paid cash for horses and steers, then vanished. A bank check bounced and a granger crowd, with a smooth talker, lured the narrator into a fake sale, leaving him out $250 as the con men disappeared into the journey. The tale ends with a loud vow of revenge from a forthright traveler.
A unnamed narrator recounts a con man who hoarded a money filled iron bound box during a train trip. The scheme involved wheat shipments to Chicago and a failed bank stop, ending with pursuit, tragedy for the narrator’s fiancée, and a vow to kill the con man if encountered again.
At a station a crowd watches a pursuit end in gunfire. The old Indian trader confronts a swindler over his daughter's inheritance, a shootout follows, and the swindler dies. The bank manager identifies the corpse as the swindler’s foe and vows to stay until burial. London Society.
The article explains using bones as fertilizer for fruit trees, grapes, and general crops. It covers gathering bones, grinding methods, fermentation in compost, mixing with wood ashes for potash, and applying in borders or hills, noting long-term soil benefits and profitability.
The report cites Prof. C. G. Rockwood noting 45 earthquakes on the American continent since March 1 1880, with most in North America. A Michigan Medical News correspondent urges door and window screens as protection against malaria. Dover Calais tunnel work runs three shifts aiming at 30 feet daily once machinery is complete. Dines explains morning fog forms over waters warmer than air. evening fog forms by radiation cooling. Ocean floor dredgings reveal pumice dust and cosmic dust forming some clays, with manganese nodules and fossil remains found. Paris Exhibition electricity works to begin. Siemens builds a duct for the English electric railway to the Palais de lIndustrie. French exhibitors seek indemnity for illumination work. Shelford Bidwell reports in Nature on sending pictures by telegraph using a copy telegraph with a selenium receiver and a revolving cylinder. experiments show promise though crude.
A long stream of quotes from various papers includes lines about sheep and tree care, presses and printers, European rulers, and a joke about a minister's marriage. It ends with a cautionary tale about three Massachusetts men who drank horse liniment sold by a neighbor.
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