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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1872
Page
3
An anxious man recalls a day away from home after a court session. He longs for his wife and child, imagining welcome kisses and a peaceful return, while balancing pride and homesickness in a Detroit Tribune style domestic vignette.
Curiosity over sound explores that sound is more than hearing sensation. It discusses vibrations visible with instruments, tone deafness, and the limits of audition across air water and wood, noting experiments from Tyndall and Wollaston and the vast occurrence of audible phenomena in daily life.
A Christmas poem urging Santa to remember the poor as he fills his sack. The speaker appeals to Santa to share gifts with needy children and to recall Jesus who was born to save. The piece ends with a plea to give to those who lack.
The piece recounts Chief Justice Marshall's famed simple mind and absent mindedness through a Virginia mud hole incident. He debates how to clear a stubborn sapling blocking his buggy wheel awaiting a solution. A nearby enslaved man offers a blunt practical fix to back the buggy then steer around the sapling. Marshall rewards the advice with gratitude and a half dollar.
In a Richmond anecdote from Lippincott's Magazine a judge ponders why Colonel Pickett’s horses are well fed while his own are skeletal. His valet Dick replies by pointing out fatness across the Pickett family, revealing the driver’s neglect and the judge’s own ignorance. The insight ends the suspicion.
A preacher named Kilpin confronts a man who denies prayer. He recalls borrowing the man’s eyes and soul’s ruin from a prayer for destruction. The exchange leads to the man’s conversion and attendance at Kilpin’s ministry.
A collection of humorous questions and anecdotes from the Danbury News. It includes quips about spring blades, a man marrying fortune, a sailor on horseback, a suburban paterfamilias, brass band plans, an inebriated fall at a depot, and playful misadventures with a Samaritan, ox breaking tips, and a bruising prank.
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