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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1875
Page
6
A flood of brief items reports on fires, drownings, stabbings, and accidents across multiple Illinois counties. It notes incidents in Champaign, McLean, Ford, Mason, and surrounding areas with casualties and damages, alongside legislative updates and local governance items from Springfield and nearby towns.
The Illinois Legislature considers a $50,000 appropriation for the We cugthy de Date project while a motion to reconsider fails 11 to 19. Bills on taxation refunds, corporate debt funds, and street vacating powers are discussed. Lincoln’s birthday prompts adjournment as Senate debates committees and districting plans.
Postmaster changes announced for multiple counties including Macon, Jo Daviess, and Marion. Names listed include Bergua Fulkerson Elvira Hamilton Albert Bailey and George Morrison. Details show discontinues and new appointments for rural routes and postal offices in the week ending February 18.
The article outlines cautions for safes including avoiding colored inks that fade under heat, not storing priceless ledgers on the outer walls, and packing hooks to secure contents. It warns wood is a poor heat conductor for fire boxes and notes avoid using safes as waste or boiling-water vessels. It also mentions expert help to open a house safe after a fire and a snow-clearing roller invention.
A French Yankee named Wiggins schemes to adopt a noble title by purchasing an aristocrat’s lineage. A Duc de Pontbrise seeks a 200 000 francs capital and 1 000 francs for clothes as proof of honor, and the pair sail on a boat where disaster ensues after the Duke falls into the river. Police later arrest the supposed adopter for desertion, while the Duke vanishes.
The London Times columns debate whether vultures detect prey by smell. Evidence from three correspondents challenges the scent theory noting attraction before death and in deserts. The piece also covers how pins gain shine by boiling in sour beer or wine lees with cream of tartar and tinning, then polishing in bran.
A fragment from the Mihoaukes Sentinel hints at a Syracuse citizen with thirteen daughters. The lines evoke a bustling household and pervasive spruce gum imagery.
An 19th-century piece stresses barn yard layout as the farm’s production hub. It argues warmth dryness and ventilation boost profits, noting small farmers with limited means can create useful buildings from simple materials, and that attention to small details safeguards larger gains. American Agriculturist.
A Country Gentlemen correspondent notes disagreement on corn spacing and hill count. He cites experiments with 3.5 feet apart rows and 3–4 stalks per hill, and a wider two-hill spacing that improved ears. He warns a dense, sunless site produced many stalks but little corn.
The Nashville Banner reports two canoeists died in the Cumberland River after their craft capsized near the water works. Rescuers searching by riverbank found them frozen, with bodies removed for burial after effort to save them failed.
A simple method combines one part asphaltum with four parts oil of turpentine to create a durable ink, with black lead added for proper consistency. An alternative uses the same asphaltum dissolved in turpentine and colored with printers ink, offering a renewably cheap supply compared with tube inks.
An old line praises resolutions as an honor to every heart that forms them and notes the luster that comes with keeping them, while recognizing the nobility of hearts that do not break their promises.
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