27 Aug 1885
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1885
Page
1
Guidance on feeding before and after calving to prevent milk fever, with remedies including laudanum and rectal emptying. Notes on age risk, preventative drying debates, and reports from Western Rural and quotes from Mr. G. W. Farlee about breeding, starvation practices, and udder management.
On the J. M. and I. Railway known as the Jeff road a boy from Indianapolis drinks large amounts of water from a tank while two dramatic troupes ride along A brakeman intervenes after the boy repeatedly drinks and sighs gasping for air and the scene ends with the brakeman grabbing him.
Consul General Strother reports Mexican wages across trades from 50 cents to 25 dollars weekly, with high pay for bakers and mine directors. Living conditions are poor with crowded, ventilated yet dirty dwellings renting 1 to 5 dollars monthly. Clothing is basic, costs minimal, but future planning is scarce. vices include gambling, fighting, and drunkenness per State Department report.
In this wardrobe survey, summer dresses and wrappers for women outline matinee gowns, sacques, and wrappers in white cambric, muslin, and lawn. Descriptions cover basques, belts, lace trims, jabots, and varying backs, with fabrics from albatross to Shetland wool and light flannels for year round wear.
Instructions describe gathering horseradish leaves before frost, drying, and storing in a labeled bag for easy access. For use, leaves heated with vinegar provide a sweating, mildly irritating treatment to relieve head pain chest soreness faceache toothache and other discomforts without blistering, with optional mustard for added effect.
A poetic passage extols progress: one stroke, one seed, one word, one stone builds grand works over time. The speaker references growing forests, grand cities, and enduring wisdom gathered slowly as life advances toward eternity.
A family tale about Johnny James who resists helping others until his father teaches him the proverb that a rule must work both ways. After strict, costly lessons and a failed party invitation, Johnny learns to act considerately. The story concludes with Johnny choosing to live by rules that benefit all, as narrated in Golden Rule.
The Johnston Journal notes it is unlikely Harry Leag itt of Great Barrington will invest $100000 in a new barn to replace the recently burned one. The former barn, built thirty three years ago, was the state’s biggest and best and Horace Greeley once wrote a long Tribune account about it.
The Walthour flour mill at Manor Station Westmoreland County was built in 1785 by Christopher Walt of Samuel Walthour, the current owner. It rose in a savage wilderness near Fort Walthour ruins two miles away, a block-house site where settlers gathered before Indian approaches.
A fragmented note recalls King Humbert as a teenager before Italy existed and hints at criminal schemes such as poisoning water supplies and arsenic in soup, suggesting a murky episode in early Italian history.
A man in Manitoba fell from a tree swing and sustained multiple broken arms and legs when his hammock gave way. The report notes the dangers of improvised gear and the high risk of injury in such setups.
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