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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1888
Page
4
A scattered column covers public lectures facing waning success, iron ore prospects on Maryland’s eastern shore, bog ore useful for iron, bees drinking at a Virginia distillery, and global mileage figures. It also notes Catawba remnants in South Carolina, Caddo Peak as a top lookout, and trade data from R. G. Don & Co. plus a Chicago Confederate memorial plan.
The writer after an 82 day stay in Japan describes agriculture, land use, and social life. He notes rice as staple, extensive terracing, bamboo, irrigation works, and a content agricultural class. He observes manners, dress, children, language, travel by jin riksha, housing, cleanliness, and cultural arts while predicting rapid modernization and education reforms.
The writer describes a journey past Shanghai and the Yangtze estuary, contrasting river floods and urban sights with the foreign concession. Sawyer school buys a physiological chart to teach body systems, promising vivid lessons and strong temperance impact on students.
In brief notes a shady tonic claims to reform indigestion and disordered livers, praising Green's August Flower as a path to health and happiness. The ad urges readers to ask their druggist for a bottle at five cents.
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