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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1875
Page
3
Excerpt from a poem in the St. Louis Globe describing wealth pursuit and luck in a light moralizing tone. The speaker imagines a perfecto bonanza, trade risks, and the promise of love, money, and success, satirizing optimistic financial rhetoric.
Silas Bronson, swayed by an opportunistic judge and others, purchases four stock certificates for $2,000 in a supposed oil venture. A forged windfall collapses as a real strike emerges elsewhere and Bronson learns the costly nature of naive trust in speculative oil stocks.
In a village scene a stranger offers to buy certificates from Silas for six thousand dollars and returns with banknotes. Bilas pays a hotel bill and heads to the depot, while Judge Fay disputes Silas's tale, proposing a swap of Great Petroleum stock certificates. The affair fuels local chatter as clues hint at an exchange error and possible innocence.
A Baltimore Gazette excerpt argues women should enter painting and the arts as professionals. It lauds natural talent and perseverance, notes Rosa Bonheur and Angelica Kaufmann as benchmarks, and emphasizes art for art’s sake, with Nellie Grant as a cited example of refined beauty and character.
The passage surveys varied curiosities from New England and Europe. It notes Mrs Mary Sellers and Mrs Barbara Batt as likely aged twins, Hepworth Dixon's new America book, and the Saxe Holm authorship claim identifying Ruth Ellis. It also mentions the New York Tribune’s anniversary building, Francis Spinner, Charles Lyell's will to support geology, Leipziger book production in 1874, and Burnside versus Sprague contrasted in attire and appearance.
A Walden farmer Amos Eedy cut his throat days ago amid losses from buying butter. New Preston’s Lewis Mahon suffered a severe nosebleed lasting a day. Frank Sherman of New London died from a slight shoe-knife wound with suspected poisoning. A skunk has taken residence in a Boston furnace box and remains fed. In Albany Ida Harden, 14, shot herself with a seven barreled revolver and died. A Meriden wife disappeared with a child, leaving a note. A Waldoboro suitor waited three hours for a ride, then she walked three miles away. Portland Gas Co agent faced two women with pokers while investigating a meter. Fairfield lumberman recalls no contracts with Gov Coburn’s memo. Micah Hodgdon, Boston dry goods merchant, swindled $20,000 in bonds from his mother-in-law, then disappeared with the proceeds.
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