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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1896
Page
7
The Henry area notes detail visitors, errands, and local happenings. Personal visits include Misses Defenbaugh and Oldfield, Elmer Melick, and Jessie Boyd leaving for home. Schools, church events, races, and local business promotions are noted alongside illnesses and family updates.
Wm Klein sustains head injury when his knife entangled in a grapevine during hedge trimming and is reported as doing well. Various community notes follow: visitors from Wiota and Evan Station, cousin Curtis Smith visiting, local deliveries, Birdsell Huller sales, Dr Swein moves into a Main street residence, John Steele to janitor in Chicago, bicycle accident prompts safety advice, unusual apple cluster, sawmill accident delays work, Hopewell dances, Henry highway tax rate set, death of Isaac Miller in Peoria, Mrs Faris visiting, Mary Mahon to speak at M H church, minor cricket injury to Lee Lincoln, strong crops and falling prices.
Local merchants announce a varied sale event with new novelties in dress cloaks and millinery. The promotion highlights blanket sales, fall hats for men, and aggressive prices on clothing, shoes, couches, parlor suits, and rockers.
Henry and surrounding area residents feature at a Walnuts Grove camping party with the J Watercatt firm and Henry Inc ties. Henry cemetery upkeep improves with gravel removal and gate access while local theater troupe and Miss Allie wedding mentions highlight community life.
Characterized as an invaluable household cure Ballard's Snow Liniment promises to heal rheumatism neuralgia sprains cuts bruises burns frostbite sore throat sore chest and stiff joints. It claims to restore mobility for cripples and backs its effectiveness with a 50 cent price and sale by Dr Powell.
On Monday August 24 at 10 o'clock the ceremony joined Prof Thomas A. Clark of the University of Illinois and Alice Virginia Broaddus. The service was conducted by Rev P K Hamed at the St John’s Episcopal Church setting with a small relatives gathering and a wedding breakfast. The couple planned a postnuptial tour to Mackinaw Islands and will reside after September 10 at 804 West Church Street Champaign.
An ad promotes No-to-bac as a harmless tobacco-habit cure with money-back guarantee and lists addresses in Chicago and New York. It also notes Henry city school district No 2 seeking bids for soft coal, screened lump coal, with bids due by Sept 4 and the board reserving the right to reject all bids.
The Democrats of Saratoga will gather at the town hall on Saturday August 29 at 3 p.m. to choose delegates for the county convention to be held at Lacon on September 2 by order of the committee.
An advertisement urges young men and women to pursue a business education at Brown's Peoria Business College. The fall term opens next Tuesday and readers are invited to write for the catalog.
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