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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1894
Page
7
The Henry area bulletin reports a circus and menagerie coming next week, local improvements, farm and business updates, marriages and deaths, and civic notices. Readers learn of meetings, new shops, weather, and social visits across Tecumseh Neb to Henry and Galva, with announcements from M. E. and Congregational churches.
A five year old boy, son of Thomas Cooney, died Friday from diphtheria. Dr Forrest arranged private burial to curb spread and earned townwide thanks. A wedding at the M E parsonage joined Albert Lane and Sylvia Longman. Whitefield hosted a successful 8.8. convention with generous hospitality. A new College catalogue from Hoopeston announced, and a lightning storm caused several trees to be struck or splintered around the city.
Dr N I Stringer of Home Life Insurance Co New York markets reliable ratings and easy terms to secure families. A city case report shows Henry Balenseifer jailed on a city ordinance violation. trial details reveal a contested verdict and impending appeal. Ponies draw local interest as Shetland stock from Thornton Bros and Crescents. several households buy fine ponies and phaetons for children. An accident injures highway commissioner G P Mattern during bridge work. he recovers with minor injuries. Public notices promote wedding and engraving services. Prof Bell predicts rapid continental travel via telegraph and telephone.
John Kline states he will continue the furniture and carpet business with the same trusted hands. He notes sales have more than doubled despite dull times and praises customers for their support. The firm is replenishing with a full new stock of the latest novelties at very low prices.
Richard Mellon of Lacon Granite and Marble Works produced several notable monuments including E B Marsh of Rutland, a Winans child of Wenona, John McAllister at Cherry Point and others in Rutland and Princeville cemeteries. The Gollmar Circus Troupe performed in Cambridge with feats by Slackey and the William family amid hot weather and broad praise.
An old advertisement lists remedies for constipation indigestion and headache under Caldwell's Syrup Pepalo and Reed's German Cal Kidney Cure. It mentions quantities and prices, a Dr Powell sale point in Peoria Illinois, and upcoming dates for a racing circuit with events in Spring Valley Wyoming Kneton and other cities.
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