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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
8
A garbled OCR snapshot blends reports on weather, stock, crime, and disasters across multiple regions. It notes storms, crop yields, rail accidents, a Grant funeral, legislative shifts, and international tensions with scattered names and places like Transylvania and Canada, lacking coherent narrative.
Foreign dispatches report a Granta memorial service at Westminster Abbey with Canon Farrar delivering the sermon and many notable attendees. Paris air is tense amid accusations, while Cairo cites budget cuts reducing the Egyptian cabinet to four members. Regina treason pleas leave several prisoners discharged while others desert. At Veracruz the U S consul notes yellow fever spreading with six deaths in recent weeks.
The memory of General Grant was honored nationwide on the 8th with a grand funeral pageant in New York Riverside Park. Notables including Vice President executives and foreign ministers attended as cities abroad closed legations and memorial services were held.
Thousands gather as funeral rites for General Grant proceed from Mount MacGregor to the station. Notables including Sherman Hancock and Green paid tribute in a silent procession with U S Grant Post guards, a military salute, and a stately service led by Dr Newman and Bishop Harris.
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