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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1893
Page
5
The piece surveys Europe and America, noting diverse factions in France and Mexico, impending legal and moral debates, railroads' earnings versus profits, and plans to move Lincoln’s death site to Chicago. It references Emin Pasha, Livingstone, Wyoming justice, and two American students circumnavigating the globe.
Routine news items report a Rome Georgia sanitarium fire causing significant loss, rail and mine accidents in Kentucky and Illinois, a large paper mill combine forming, wage and pension shifts, and various fatalities from explosions, riots, and structural fires, reflecting turbulent late 19th century conditions.
The New Jersey legislature named James Smith Jr. to a six year U.S. Senate term beginning March 4 1898. Kansas and Wisconsin nominations appear amid party disputes and ballots. The Tennessee legislature elected state officials W S Morgan James A Harris and E B Craig. Bishop Phillips Brooks funeral in Boston is reported, with fragmented notes on Blaine’s death and contemporaneous public proclamations.
A reader recounts a Los Angeles to Santa Barbara trip along the Santa Clara valley noting lush irrigation, dense homesteads, and fruit abundance. He mentions lima bean production on Col J's ranch, walnut and lemon groves, olives, oil making, and Illinois residents among locals, with warm, clear weather and active markets and fishermen.
Senate and house actions fill the day with voting and bills. The Missouri river wagon bridge bill passes while a severe Northwest blizzard halts travel and drivers report record cold.
An advertisement extols Kickapoo Indian Sagwa and Bagwa as non toxic cures made from field and forest plants. It claims strength, blood purification, and liver and stomach relief, touts an aged Kickapoo woman and asserts Indians avoid dyspepsia and malaria. Sold by druggists at five dollars per bottle.
Ex Juner James Campdell former postmaster general in Pierce cabinet died in Philadelphia at 80 of heart failure. Services attended by Chief Justice Fuller. Wisconsin elects John L. Mitchell U.S. senator. Grover dies at Chicago world fair Royal British commissioner. Mayor Samuel Sprague dies in Washington at 61. T M Leavenworth dies in Santa Rosa at 75. Blaine era rites held at Church of the Covenant. Joan Mrovaxis family perishes in Hamlin Wa from freezing. Snow damages world fair roofs causing $50 000 loss.
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