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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1884
Page
3
A verse sketch where a simple child learns of death from her aunt in Mariborough and a strange phrase shocanum palsy is linked to paralysis. The narrator questions the cause while the girl repeats the line that the aunt died of the shocanum palsy, a colonial term for paralysis.
In 1882 a Half Moon mining camp bears witness to Bill Lewis and six others who trek over Red Mountain to save the gravely ailing Little John. They carry him on a burro through blizzard and peril to a timber cabin, then down to Haydens where a unknown benefactor funds a ten thousand dollar aid to his mother and a ticket home wrapped in a remittance.
The Norwalk Iron-Works reports a 28 foot long cylinder with a 4 inch bore to be paired with an air compressor. The inventor aims to fire a three pound dynamite cartridge two miles using compressed air at 300 psi, with plans for larger guns to hurl one hundred pounds ten miles. Tests are planned in South Norwalk before naval officers and scientists.
The old prospector extols mining as an exciting venture with a hopeful impulse. He notes that fortunes can come suddenly through dumb luck, and even careful, informed effort carries both profit and loss risk. He warns the thrill can keep a miner chasing raises and riches amid frequent volatility.
Fragments note Beethoven’s misdated deafness and death, Delmonico’s library death, Butler’s Bible find in the Massachusetts State House, Nordhoff’s Herald salary and wife, the New York Historical Society’s growth plan, Major Arthur’s wartime scars, Harvard’s Longfellow drafts and revisions, and poets’ evolving lines as recorded by several papers.
A collage of humorous snippets from various papers includes quips about scribbling, phrenology, and a bear in town. It features a nurse reciting childhood recollections, Irish humor over debts of honor, and a comic exchange at a society introduction. A Detroit incident blends a fall, a speaker’s quip, and a jail cell joke about an extra cross in a guard’s window.
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