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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
7
A physician invites individuals and families with certain diseases to seek in person explanations. The offer emphasizes immediate contact, notes that delays could be dangerous, and states that consultations are free and confidential.
The Young Men's Catholic Union of St Mary's church held a successful card party at the People's Hall in a clear winter evening. About 27 tables hosted progressive euchre with prizes awarded to Caroline Leichter Nora Schmitt Frank Ford and Lou Klein. The parish, led by Rev Fr Gensler, supports multiple societies and its new church edifice enables gatherings and basketball. The event boosted parish unity and highlighted its active clergy and organizations.
The article explains Ash Wednesday and Lent as a religious season, noting how Easter dates shift yearly. It outlines the movable feast, its link to the vernal equinox, and differences across calendars. It also mentions Easter dates for 1915 through 1920 and remarks on the improbability of very early or late Easter in the near future, plus a brief classified line about an Arabian stallion and a car for sale or trade.
A February 9 club meeting at the Commercial Club room led by Mrs. Neilie Harlin included reports on receipts of 121.95 from Uncle Ephraim's Summer Boarders and discussions on entertainment versus literature. The same issue lists a public sale notice for Feb 16 1914 by John Mulgary and others, detailing horses cattle farming equipment and terms.
Public sale to be held at the Redding farm four miles south of Bradford Illinois and 344 miles northwest of Camp Graver on Monday February 16, 1914 starting at 10 o clock a m. Items include twelve head of horses, cows, hogs, mules, farm machinery, and assorted stock such as Clyde and Shire horses, Percheron mare, polar Clyde mares, a bay mare and foal, a brood mare, two registered polarid giant boar sows, bred gilts, shoats, seeds, and miscellaneous farm implements.
The text notes Masons and other organizations embracing a social duty to address crime and community problems, urging lodges to care for members who are morally ill and for those who are sick or ailing, reflecting an older fraternal welfare perspective.
An old establishment druggist writes that after years of disease and torture many seek medical relief. He promotes a product claimed as a mild simple remedy not a patent medicine, alleging a scientific antiseptic compound made in a laboratory.
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