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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1881
Page
6
The readable text references a two year old child found in a duck pond and a mother grabbing the corpse, plus scattered items about fraud charges, Sioux land claims, postal stamps, railway incidents, and financial figures. The material is disorganized, with incomplete names and locations.
Georgia Senate passes a bill forbidding urging violation of anti polygamy laws with hard labor penalties. The article includes garbled notes on Garfield letters to his mother, political meetings, and various figures such as Horatio Seymour and Tilden, with references to 1861 events and New York politics.
Readable portions describe a UK style debate on extradition and asylum rights with a unanimous adoption, comments by a English agricultural expert Caleb on Wheatland Ragland crop yields, and notes on oats and barley. Mentions British Commons vote on coercion act and a plan to appoint consuls in Egypt to curb domestic slavery.
A collage of reports describes Irish coercion act politics in Britain, Greece withdrawing from Thessaly, a Yale British Columbia fire causing heavy damage, land league receipts and arrests, a failed French US treaty signal, and a balloon ascent feared lost near Armentieres.
A late bulletin notes the President tolerates squid nutrition in small portions, shows no nausea or vomiting, and wakes better. Pulse 110, temp 100.1, respiration 19.4. Earlier readings showed slight improvement. doctors warn of anxiety but gains in stomach function give encouragement. News also covers drought near Cincinnati and assorted international items.
An extensive medical note describes Dr Bliss and colleagues probing a wound using a flexible rubber catheter. After a partial blockage and tissue sloughing, a deeper path was found and washed out to twelve and a half inches. The resulting pus was healthy, suggesting infection did not originate there.
An August 21 Washinarton report to the Chicago Inter-Ocean details seven weeks of President Lincoln's illness after the July 2 shooting. It chronicles high pulse and fever, dangerous rigors, surgical openings, bone fragments removed, and near death before slow recovery begins, with obituaries circulated briefly abroad.
A man identified as George Leonard Smith, twenty eight, died after grasping live electric conductors in a generating room. Eyewitnesses say he collapsed instantly with a bluish, distorted face and burned fingers. Smith had recently worked in lumber yards and was described as intoxicated moments before the accident at the plant on the island.
Washington August 16 reports from the Department of Agriculture show August 1 condition readings. Spring wheat at 81, tobacco mixed with regional declines and gains, corn generally down from July with statewide lows in Kansas and Tennessee and highs in Wisconsin and Nebraska amid mixed Atlantic coast results.
The article argues that cooking rests on physiology and chemistry, requiring careful knowledge of food sources from earth air and sea. It compares a skilled cook to a scientist and philanthropist, asserting proper domestic economy affects health, mental vigor, and happiness, with children and family welfare dependent on enlightened meal preparation.
An elderly German on Market street lost two watches with chains from his employer's vest. A suspect, known from prior police courts, was jailed for drunkenness but led nowhere. The man dreamed of the watches hidden in straw time and again found them, restoring his faith in dreams. Also a Chicago note bans grinders after nine p.m. and jokes about long work hours in boiler shops.
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