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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1872
Page
3
A fragmentary poem depicts a lone bird singing in a tree as night falls. The speaker contrasts hidden inner joy with a world asleep and suggests true happiness exists within the heart, unseen by others.
A ruined officer aboard a night train to Aldershot is haunted by a coffin bearing his own name. The experience leads to a miraculous change of fortune as a Bank of England note appears and prompts him to repay a past fraudster's father. The tale ends with a resolve to avoid further loans from the dead.
A long, uneven column of items from a 19th century newspaper includes playful fiction with Squibbs and Mister, then a burst of varied notes from Albany, Portembuth, and Boston. It covers poetry, travel, trials, statistics, and a New York fire annihilator experiment with social quips and miscellaneous facts.
A farmer storms into Mr. M s shop accusing John of selling walnut filled nutmegs. John denies deceit and claims walnuts were included for free with nutmegs to the children. The dispute ends with humor as both relax and tell a moral about thinking before speaking.
In Danbury a man named Abrams of the Sixth ward slept in a chair after missing a join with Washingtonians. He woke to find a rat in the pancake batter and cried to his wife Lary Jane that a rat had contaminated the batter before realizing the truth when he tried to lift it with a fork.
An elderly Maine farmer sold a large stash of old silver Spanish coins for 398 dollars after years of saving. He had hoarded the coins for many years and finally agreed to the sale after lengthy bargaining.
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