Henry County News Notes and Civil War Lecture Ads
Local column from Henry County reports a special Mason County sheriff election deputy, Albert Brooker, and sympathy for Nebraska relief. Knights of Pythias events mark anniversaries with a concert and grand work, plus notices on Oscar Burn burn injuries, family hardship, and a Gordon lecture tour with praise from Oxford and Bloomington presses.
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Mason County
Albert Brooker
Knights of Pythias
Order of the Supreme Domain
Grand Domain of
Illinois
Henry
John A. Miller
Senator Gordon
Georgia
Grand Army
Heroen
Grant
Lee
Sheridan
Jackson
Oxford
Miss
Globe
J.B. Qlordon
Columbia Post
Luo
Post
Inter Ocean
Uncle Sam Behind Schedule at 200000 Daily Pace
A terse note reports Uncle Sam running behind by about 200000 per day, a line that seems to mix humor and figurative critique. The quip suggests a sense of confusion or surprise at the pace and its impact, with playful phrasing that implies nationwide or governmental delay.
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Uncle Sam
Ong
Edwardsville hosts state supervisors session 1895
Gov. Gregory reports on the Edwardsville gathering of the State Association of Supervisors and County Commissioners held January 15 to 17 1895 in Madison County. Delegates from about 40 counties discussed insane asylums, good roads, taxation, and equitable taxation, with reports on pauper care and county responsibility.
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Gregory
State Association of Supervisors and Co
Edwardsville
Friend Burt
Supervisors and Co
Madison County
St Louis
Chicago
Peoria
Henry
Havana
Springfeld
Litchfield
Egypt
St James
Cuxhaw Opera House
F. W. Hades
Streator
Hearn
Quincy
BE. W. Mudge
Madison
J. H. Piper
Sangamon
Clark Gapis
Kankakee
Europe
Mexico
South America
O. W. Thomas
Belleville
State Equalization Board
Clinton
Danville
Taylorville
Madison County Alms House
Alton
W. R. Brink
Illinois
Marquette
Utica
George
From Nebraska Aid Plea For Coal And Food
A stark appeal from Holt county Nebraska describes towns begging for coal and flour as freezing households suffer. A distributing agent asks readers to send contributions to Mrs J H Broappros in Ewing to fuel relief efforts for women and children in Holt Garfield Wheeler and Boyd counties.
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Nebraska
Wray
Colorado
Tilinois
Marshall County
Holt
Garfield
Wheeler
Boyd
J. H. Broappros
Ewing
Holt County
Neb
Ewing Home
Ely's Cream Balm Provides Relief for Severe Catarrh
A description notes a False Diagnosia, La Grippe confusion with severe catarrh causing forehead and ear pain throat soreness and nasal blockage leaving sufferers unable to work. Ely's Cream Balm is claimed to give instant relief and best results in such cases.
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Ely
Pollution Fight Over Illinois Water Ditch
Physicians warn polluted drainage threatens health of residents near Chicago and the Illinois valley. A plan to discharge sewage down the drainage ditch could endanger public health and ruin winter skating on the river. In Joliet the lower basin shows open water amid weeks of extreme cold, with unsafe ice that skaters should avoid.
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Chicago
Illinois
Ilinois Valley
Seward
Joliet
Peru
Selz Royal Blue Shoe Promises Comfort and Durability
The Five Members of the shoe household feature Selz Royal Blue Shoe for men and women, praised for flexing with the foot and its blue sole trademark. A cheaper option is Selz Perfecto 83, made by Selz Schwab Co in Chicago and sold by J. H. Jones & Son.
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Selz
Selz Perfecto
Selz, Schwab § Co
Chicago
J. H. Jones& Son
New Subscribers Offer Henry Republican and The Business Guide
New subscribers and one year in advance paying subscribers for $2.00 will receive The Henry Republican for one year and The Business Guide by J Nichols. An invaluable work for the merchant laborer farmer and every household. It is a valuable everyday counselor.
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Henry Republican
J. Nichols
Concert program notes and traveler news from February event
The record lists a Camp Fire program with Major Hendershot and Son, a drum solo imitation of a railroad train, mixed quartette performances, and songs like Marching Through Georgia and Gen Robt E Lees Favorite March. It also notes Mrs W I Law and Miss Nellie Law sailing January 29 on the Furst Bismarck for a nine week Mediterranean and Orient excursion, with Gibraltar, Azores, Algiers, Genoa, Malta, Alexandria, Jaffa, Smyrna, Constantinople, Athens, Naples, and a long overland return itinerary.
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Carin Wire
Rappahannock
Gram
L. Overtore
Hendershot and Son
Ander
Dwight
Post
Georgia
SSA
Hendershot
Son
Marseilles
Locke
Robt & Lee
Voeise Tees Orchestra
Sheridan
Sth
Fite
J.C. Hendershot
Maj. Hendershot
Ask Pteys
Horace Greeley
C.W. Ayling
Marshall Downey
Mocking Bird
Young
Yong
Sear
Old Army
Dixie
W.I. Law
Nellie Law
New York
Furst Bismarck
Gibraltar
Law
Firat
Ponta Delgada
San Miguel
Azores Islands
Atlantic
Portugese
Rock of Gibraltar
Ing & Wonderful Fortress
Algiers
France
Genoa
Villafranche
Nice
Mediterranean
Malta
England
Truch
Alexandria Delines
Cairo
Africa
Jaffa
Jerusalem
Holy City
Smyrna
Constinople
Athens
Messina
Palermo
Naples
Gentle Rebuke, Husband and Sunrise Time
A brief two person exchange from the New York Weekly shows a wife rising early to greet the sun after her husband arrives late from the club. The dialogue contrasts a gentle rebuke with a romantic early morning moment.
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N. Y
Millinery and a Gas Lit Exchange in Brooklyn Life Cartoon
A satirical exchange unfolds with a blue and red bird characters remarking on a season of flowers then a courtship ending in marriage. The dialogue shifts to banter about gas settings and a playful battle of wit between a man and his wife as depicted in Brooklyn Life.
All Winter Goods at Less Than Cost in Henry
A local shop advertises deep discounts on all winter goods and cloaks. It highlights a large stock of wallpaper, borders, table linen, crashes, linen lawns, Swisses, and white goods, plus spring lines of hosiery underwear laces embroideries percal es and ginghams just arrived.
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Henry
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