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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1901
Page
8
A page note ponders a young girl’s budding womanhood amid aging crowds and warns that beauty fades under female illnesses. It promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for enfeebling drains, inflammation, ulceration, bearing down pains, and nervous weakness, claiming restoration of health without narcotics.
A survey of Parisian working girls from Montmartre and surrounding districts notes fashion and daily life. The piece also chronicles Helen Gould's Washington talk on aiding soldiers and sailors, Russian women's work limits, Miss Ayrton at a British dinner, and various honors for American and European women including appointments, philanthropy, and patents.
The author comments on taxation fairness, salt of oleomargarine substitutes, and the State Board of Agriculture. He argues for elected board members, notes hay and grain storage rules, critiques dairy labor by women, and advises on humane horse handling and beekeeping practices. The piece blends rural advice with policy opinions.
The Grundy County Farmers Institute urges a landowner tenant lease plan for Illinois farms. It calls for sharing stock profits, landlord supplied buildings, and a fixed term of three to ten years. Provisions include crop rotation, clover seed fertilizer, and mutual use of commercial fertilizer to balance grain revenue.
Jefferson county investigates a map peddler scam blamed on a group of operators who befriended farmers, promised a free map then pressed for referrals. They used receipts and fake orders to extract $4 per map, with many victims resisting yet some forced to pay. The case heads to the grand jury in three weeks.
Maps or price demands spurred a broad land office drive as agents collected accounts through a local bank. A map agent conducted extensive efforts, attracting a large number of citizens across the country to settle debts.
Community items report a marriage license issued to Richard Allen and Telya Boon in Richland, celebrations for the Antrim’s fifth anniversary in Hopewell, and local moves including Andrew Vogelsang returning to Chillicothe. Dr Robert Boal travels to Springfield. Mrs Sol York notes a new faster river boat on Peoria run. Joe Johnson recalls selling horses for $825. Robert Pringle Jr elected township treasurer. Ed Foster faces jail risk. sculptor John Leont died in Louis hospital after earlier Chicago attack and later insanity.
The Republican office offers legal blanks and assorted stationery at low prices. School tablets, envelopes, note and receipt books, and various printing services are advertised with fast, on time completion. Also promoting weekly editions and combined Farm Journal reading material.
Newspaper ad from The Henry Republican office offers paper and box stationery, envelopes, and wedding samples. It advertises low prices on plain envelopes, return cards, and boxed items, plus engraving services and subscriptions.
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