04 Aug 1881
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1881
Page
1
The notice details advertising rates: one square or saga at 31 for a single insertion, 5c for each additional insertion, and annual prices of 10 dollars per year for one square. Rates for columns include one fourth, one half, and full column with weekly and yearly totals. Obituary notices priced at 5c per line. Transient ads payable in advance.
The text lists meeting nights and times for AV & A Hoeary Lodge 119 O F Marshall Lodge 63 and Marshall Encampment 35 with locations in Regulator building City Bakery Sparland 812, inviting visiting Brethren to join on specified evenings and times.
Dr Snyder and Dr Motter advertise first class dental work with weekly sessions and women’s day specials at 105 South Adams Peoria with Dr Ross promoting success in tooth restoration and related services. financing and insurance info provided.
Bennett Republican notices from Lacon report Professor Robert Challooer leaving for Richmond for health, John Collyer's foundation on Fifth and High, Turbitts traveling to Kansas and Iowa for real estate, Miss Mary Work visiting Wenona guest of Miss Flora Reeder. Judge Laws holding court at Meme mora. M K Barney to Normal for August term. Ellsworths room hosts dance. C D Armetrange to present elocution at Rose a Opera House next Friday. Augustoth horseback riding admired by locals. Julius Briggs travels to Chicago. Mr Joe Mohler adds a new floor. Letham critiqued for vanity and generosity. Valley church festival Wednesday Aug 0. Newell Nurses building home. Isaac McCann foundation laid. Nelson Halstead buried last Sunday. WRATH.
A crowd of items from a busy Saturday in Octavia includes visitors from Streator bound for Lake Sangchris, a migrant from England, local improvements on Main Street and a new brick bank, a planned hotel development, and various town happenings from church work to concerts and gossip peddling by the infamous Lebam.
Last Saturday night burglars blew open Thom Drew’s safe taking 3350. Dr Reynolds’s safe yielded 100 then they raided his house and Ed Dougan’s barn loss of horse buggy and harness. The town mourns a dry season and farm woes.
An advertisement extols Parker's Ginger Tonic One Soc bottle as a potent energizer and health aid. It claims improved vitality and recovery from ailments, faster than malt or milk, with claims of mental and physical enhancement and gradual restoration to health. It also notes a critique of Dale Armstrong's Larks tour, described as financially demoralizing.
Regular meeting Monday August 1 1881. Roll call lists Mayor Townsend Aldermen Hill Ohler Snider Yeager Carroll and Clerk Disosway. Action on opening College Avenue and water system changes discussed. Insurance on engine house raised to 1200. Open University Avenue and south street to 66 feet width coordinated by Alderman Pool. Mechanical Chorograph noted as printing machine by Fred S. Potter Kay. Temperance workers convocation at Lake Bluff begins July 20 with Miss Francis F. Willard president. officers include McGee Woodford Ottawa Mrs Hibben Peoria and Mrs B M L Plumb Streator.
Delicate women and sufferers of stomach and kidney complaints are urged to try Electric Bitters, billed as a speedy cure. The ad notes health and happiness follow use, with Jr. Niece selling the remedy for 60 cents. Also mentions a railroad man claiming rain is produced by rail electromagnetism and a note about flies caught with molasses.
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