Avery Leads All Farm Implements Line
A dealer showcases a broad line of farm implements including planters cultivators mowers and wagons at his business inviting inspection by customers.
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
11
A dealer showcases a broad line of farm implements including planters cultivators mowers and wagons at his business inviting inspection by customers.
Prof. J. R. Bouton acts as Local Representative in Sparland for The Henry Republican and oversees entrusted news. He is authorized to transact all business concerning this paper and will ensure prompt attention to items.
A roundup of community items includes Hamilton Barr's illness last week, coal activity at Robert Roe’s bank, and Henry Wetzel’s return home. Numerous visits from Peoria and Chicago areas, a 48 vote primary count, and travel to Iowa for coal boring are noted along with weather hints and a coal chute fire causing loss.
In Oscar McLaughlin's pasture a fine young grounds hosts a Married Men versus High School boys game, with the Married Men prevailing. The town records a string of visits, travels, and health notes including Mrs. Frank Anderson’s mother’s illness, James Lyons and wife with Mrs. Lyons' mother, and neighbors traveling to Chillicothe for ball. Death of Wm. McCall from heart disease and dropsy noted. funeral held at Sparland cemetery. Several locals attend church and school events, with gossip on housing scarcity, travels to Chicago and Peoria, and upcoming Epworthians plays.
Paralysis of the lower limbs left a man named Harry Seibold almost hit by a gravel train backing down without signal at a crossing last Tuesday. He barely pulled away as the horses panicked, causing a brief town-wide excitement and the near collision between cart and locomotive.
Medical pros including Finley Ellingwood Hale Scudder John King Grover Coe and others praise Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription for female ailments such as weakness prolapsed uterus irregular menses and pelvic disorders. The ad asserts it is not a secret medicine and invites letters for consultation with guaranteed confidentiality. It also promotes Dr Pierce's Medical Adviser and Pellets for constipation.
Alix Wint and John Christopher, once rivals for Dorothy Mosher, sparred over her. Christopher wed Dorothy and sailed away aboard his schooner, while Wint joined the Hereford Inlet life saving station. A great Jersey storm tests the crew as a distress voyage unfolds.
In a dramatic seamark rescue at Hereford inlet a schooner founder near Northbar. Dorothy and her husband Wint are key figures as the life-saving crew braves lethal surf to save them both. The World-Herald account recalls a perilous night and a daring act with lasting tragedy.
Reverend Robert Burdette delivered a sermon at Temple Baptist Church in Los Angeles using Genesis xi 12 as his text. He spoke on the theme tainted money and warned against greed and material excess.
The article warns that pure white lead paint, though inexpensive per pound, lasts longer and is safer for building projects. It urges property owners to insist on absolute purity and to be fully informed about paint materials before buying.
A sermon uses a dirty dollar as a symbol of sinful past, praising the church’s mercy and questioning whether redemption should elevate the worn bill. A separate column argues that tariffs protect watch and steel rail industries, preserving jobs and national independence, urging Republicans to defend protectionist policy.
A Henry Republican opinion warns that the party risks losing votes if it fails to promise tariff revision. It urges careful changes only where inequalities exist, defending the American system as central to Republican doctrine to avoid political shipwreck.
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