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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1881
Page
3
A reflective meditation on judging others and acknowledging human frailty. The speaker questions who is truly pure, urges mercy over condemnation, and asks for divine guidance as everyone faces temptations and imperfect paths.
In a rambling reminiscence, Mrs. Carter recalls the Wells house era with Miss Hattie Warburton and Miss Carrie Sanderson, detailing maid service intrigues, Mrs. Wells’s control, Mrs. Wells’s daughters, Mr. Batchellor’s courtship, and the rivalries that shaped early social life and family tensions.
In a moonlit church setting after a concert, Miss Carrie Sanderson marries Mr Batchellor with schemes and jealousy among friends. Dr Graham exposes no social impropriety, Miss Hattie pushes for haste, and Miss Warburton aids the ruse, leading to scandal and a hurried exit for the couple. Mrs Wells and Miss Carrie vanish next morning.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report from the West Side describes Willie Crawford, 14, son of tug master Capt. William Crawford, suffering from a rare blood sweating disorder called purpura haemorrhagia. Recurrent nosebleeds, body-wide blood-blisters, and blood from the skin and orifices have marked attacks. doctors have varied in treatment but no permanent cure is found. The boy remains intelligent and pale, with attacks often triggered by excitement or fear, and current care by Dr. W. H. Burt includes homeopathic doses of secale and phosphorus.
Grx W W WooproLx, a veteran of the Floridas and other Indian wars, has died in Nashville at age eighty one. Once Tennessee’s wealthiest man at the start of the war, his holdings included plantations and famed blooded horses, but he died comparatively poor.
The item lists diverse curiosities including Italy postage cut to two cents, a Milwaukee petition for a woman on the police force, New York City paupers and criminals costs, a New York heiress recovering funds from a liquor firm, and gifts to President-elect Garfield. It also recalls colonial postal history with Benjamin Franklin, explains the guinea’s value set by Sir Isaac Newton, and reports on wild game trade in St. Louis and Missouri venison.
A 1879 80 disease surge in Kharkoff shows diphtheria deaths of 7000 and, for ten months in 1480, 6500. The piece argues the disease’s origin near Russia, dismisses sewer gas as a cause, and notes its continental spread alongside cholera and the plague.
The Brookly n Eagle warns that diphtheria may follow a westward path from Russia, noting Kharkoff outbreaks and mass emigration. It urges immediate disinfection of baggage and cargo with chlorine gas at landing to curb the spread and asks medical authorities nationwide to report on local cases.
A Hartford Times summary notes a case where an elderly woman made a second will leaving her estate to a niece, later died, and the second will disappeared. The local lawyer testified the second was signed and witnessed, but the first will remained, and searches failed to locate the second. Probate rulings upheld the destruction of the first will, leading to intestate division among three heirs.
A single juror decides a verdict in a Court of Common Pleas case after the others were excused. The trial referenced a 1877 Fire Department clerks' dismissal and later restoration, with attorneys Boswell Hatch for plaintiffs and E H Lacombe Cole for the city. The juror’s verdict favored the plaintiff, prompting remarks on the efficiency and oddity of a one person jury.
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