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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1900
Page
5
Poem envisions a future of universal peace and social equity. It speaks of dreamer insight, unity of rich and poor, and a world free of hatred where honest work is rewarded and greed ends. The author signs as Ledgar Jones.
A bookkeeper watching Dolly from his desk plots to win her from the shipping clerk. Dolly falls for the clerk while the bookkeeper secretly guards her happiness. When Dolly admits she loves him, the bookkeeper learns she means him.
Never Satisfied Puddy-Joggles moves out to suburbs claiming the exercise from doing chores improves his health. He buys Shandy’s place while Shandy shifts to town. Duddy notes the sale aims to shed housework burden. The wheel’s spin brings relief to a nervous man. Indianspolls Journal.
A report presented to the Illinois Fishery Association led by M. D. Hurley details river catch values by site, highlighting carp and buffalo as dominant, with catfish and game fish declining. It argues for continuing carp propagation to boost food supply and notes buffalo and carp thrive on refuse in flooded marshes. The Peoria Star notes potential carp farming on river bottoms.
Edward Arndt to Emma Quiram Roberts. Wm H Dunb La Prairie to Mary Craig Lacon. Whiti Sowards Lacon to Cora E Kinney Chillicothe. Julia A Ogte to In Rose La Rose. John W Grieves to Chas C McCune Lacon. Martin Lynch exr to John B Wilson Saratoga. Dollie M Smith to Ed B Smith Henry. Henry K Booth to Wm M Mead La Prairie. Water Wier to Ed G Brereton Lacon. Hiram Grable to Peter Zimmerman Tevans. Lottie Grable to Thomas Southwell Wenong. Jacob Strawn to Frank B Norris Belle Plain. John I Thompson to Stephen Martin Steuben. Chas Leigh to AJ McCullough Saratoga. Eleanor Horrom to Ernest Sexton Henry.
Readers praise Hood's Sarsaparilla for cures from scrofula to eczema and nausea. Testifiers claim dramatic recoveries in cases from a Kansas boy with serious sores to a Washington mother regaining strength after years of illness.
An old medical advertisement extols Swift's Specific as superior for blood diseases. It claims eight eight delivers direct action to the disease, cures even obstinate cases, and purges taint from the system. A testimonial from Mrs. T. W. Lee of Montgomery Alabama describes poison infection and a full recovery after twenty bottles.
S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD is advertised as a guaranteed pure vegetable remedy free of mercury potash arsenic or minerals. It claims to cure Cancer Eczema Scrofula Rheumatism Contagious Blood Poison Tetter Boils Carbuncles Sores and more. Swift Specific Company Atlanta Ga offers free books by mail.
Mrs George F Wightman died Monday February 12 after a long illness in Lacon. She left six children two survive, Laura Bellows and Charles K Wightman. Funeral held February 14 at 2 pm. Rev J R Stead officiated. Also noted is the obituary of Hon Robert S Hester of Marshall county Illinois who died February 5 1900 in San Antonio Texas at age 74 after a lifelong public career.
Thursday morning February 16 at St Dominic Catholic Church in Wyoming a quiet wedding united Andrew O Neil and Miss Jole Day. Rev Father McCarrow officiated with only immediate relatives present. The bride wore red satin veiling cloth and the groom black. After a wedding breakfast the couple left by 10 am train for a month long honeymoon visiting friends and relatives before settling March 15 at their farm home two miles northeast of town. The bride is praised for sweetness and character. the groom a respected farmer.
Skeleton of a prehistoric animal, likely a mastodon, found while excavating under river bed near Rome Indiana for a new double track bridge on the Chicago Burlington & Quincy main line from Chicago to Omaha. Foreman Peter Matteon oversaw the excavation and the T shaped bone fragment was moved to Batavia for study.
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