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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1874
Page
3
A speaker longs for a distant mountain home as a master figure urges a return to the valley. The poem contrasts granite peaks with a sunlit valley, expressing inner conflict between isolation and desire for warmth, love, and familiar comforts. The master calls for staying amid the harsh yet beautiful high ground.
At a railroad crossing a small house shelters Tom Larkin the switch-tender and Maggie the crippled singer. A dead baby found on the tracks awakens Tom to care, Maggie’s patience and song bring warmth, and the couple’s Christmas gifts bind them to hope and grace through faith and shared crosses.
A fragmentary collage of humor and natural history notes from Danbury and other places. Observations range from political quips to jokes about weather reports and misheard quotations. The piece includes a long natural history section describing wasp nests, spiders, and African honey birds with anecdotes of observers and hunting lore.
District reports show totals for Tittawabassee Cass Rute Augres Kawakawler ad Au Sable and overall 699 833 937 feet rafted with last year 645 569 171 feet. Leftover logs amount to 437 250 000 feet with half inside boomers and the rest hung up.
A reader recalls watching a tropical wasp construct a hollow clay cell with five legs, then fill it with spiders over a week. The nest, seven connected cells, later toppled in a gale but landed intact on a sofa.
A Brooklyn pawnbroker lures passers by with a fake pledge of a worthless imitation jewel worth about twenty dollars. The finder is enticed to redeem it at high interest, then learns its true value is about three cents. Three well known Brooklyn men fall victim and seek legal redress while planning to even the score.
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