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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
Local representative R A Ward attends to paper affairs in Magnolia. Reports on illnesses, visits, moving of barber shop, out of town visits by residents, school improvements, drought impact on corn, and a local automobile party to Deer Park. Mentions several families and nearby towns.
Magnolia defeated White Rocks 9 to 4 Sunday at Magnolia Park. Lacon suffered as usual from sticky remarks about hair and lungs. Kenneth Griffin, son of Mr and Mrs Perry Griffin, endured a painful yard accident with a cow causing 12 facial stitches. Dr Dakin treated him and reported steady progress.
Hennepin events and visits described including an ice cream social in the park for M. BH and a忙 tally of local residents traveling to Tonica Granville and Deer Park. The piece also lists detailed Republican and Democratic vote totals for Putnam County with multiple names and offices.
A. S. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold and hay fever relief after using Foley's Honey and Tar. He notes that a doctor's prescription failed to help and other medicines aggravated symptoms. His wife later had the same success.
Prof. Albert T. Mills and family visit Abel Mills in Quaker Lane as threshing ends and oats yield fades. Russell Tomlinson stays with grandmother Mrs. Tomlinson. Dr. Casebier and family from Normal tour to Ohio Ill. for a few days with H. B. Beck. Wilson reunion planned at A. B. Wilson home Aug 21. Katharine Mary Griffith Ruth Mills visit Miss Ratekin at Swan Creek. Helen K. Smith visits sister Mrs. Max Whitney. Bessie Davidson buys new piano from Mills in Streator. County Superintendent Hunt tours in auto. Free railroad ride offer. Jansen Toosten sale in Peoria.
The career of Dr. McIntyre unfolds from a humble start in Illinois to major Chicago and Denver churches, then Los Angeles. Renowned for eloquence and vast lecturing, he delivered over 2,000 lectures, wrote poetry and fiction, and drew large crowds, earning a pioneering, people centered ministry and long tenure in Los Angeles. He valued his wife and family, started with $100, and declined a pay increase, while continuing to draw attendees and avoid ticketing in a popular church setting.
In a seaside city, praise for a pastor as the Epworth League crowds the gallery and the portico gossip. the First church official board and membership express regret at his departure while Baltimore confirms Bishop McIntyre’s election. A warm reply from McIntyre thanks the church for support. Los Angeles, Cal.
A Massachusetts paper 108 years old reprints a Henry Republican item. A Missouri woman married five daughters to Little Poor Brown Short and then to Hogg. At the wedding supper the old gentleman joked about educating his daughters.
A Worcester tale from 1801 tells of a eastward gentleman who educated his five daughters to honor his family. Each wed a man named Poor Little Short Brown and Hogg. At the final wedding he laments that his hopes for social advantage ended in a poor little brown hog. The anecdote survives as a readable, amusing historic quip about marriage and social expectations.
Mrs M M Davison of 379 Gifford Avenue San Jose California endorses Electric Bitters as a superior family remedy for headaches biliousness and liver and bowel torpor. The product is sold with a guarantee at A J Ironmonger's drug store for 50 cents.
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