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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1893
Page
2
A Republican businessman criticizes Democrats as promising easy times while noting fair travel savings. World’s Fair round trip fares are reduced to 2 and 3.67 with the new rate, saving 1.33 from the old 7.00. A railroad meeting at New Opera Hall Friday seeks strong attendance to push donation efforts.
The piece recalls 19th century anti slavery networks with covert routes at Lawn Ridge and between Boyd's Grove and Princeton. It describes escape parties, local conductors, and neighbors who aided or obstructed fugitives, noting incentives and tensions among local Democrats and residents.
Oldest engineer on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, John W Miller, died suddenly. A special Peoria to Henry funeral train carried 100 workers and family members. Miller’s career began on the Old Colony railroad and he served the Rock Island for 38 years. He left a wife and six children. He was remembered as a faithful, capable, kindly man who loved children and served with calmness in danger.
A reader thanks donors for a burial and defends free river passage for all boats. The piece attacks The Hennepin Record and The Republican for alleged rivercraft bias, calling the accusation fiction and urging fairness to steamboats and Peoria.
Mrs Annie M Beam of McKeesport Pennsylvania reports the success of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in treating diarrhoea among her children after the Johnstown flood. She bought the medicine from Rev Mr Chapman and says it cured two severely affected children and notes similar positive results from others. 50 cent bottles are sold by J W.
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