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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1887
Page
3
A sweeping domestic roundup notes floods and washouts in Reading Pennsylvania and metropolitan areas. Lightning and wind destroy buildings and timberland, while crops suffer and a church is leveled in Arkansas.
The annual convention of the National Educational Association opened at the Exposition building in Chicago on the 12th with unprecedented attendance bringing representatives from every state and territory. Fire, weather, and crime items filled the day’s dispatches alongside local incidents and notable deaths.
Reports describe a collapse along Zugersee lake in Zug Switzerland where more than 100 persons perished as houses and a crowded inn vanished into the lake. The Hotel Zurich and fronting streets sank with guests asleep. an infant survived in a cradle while rescuers searched debris.
July dispatches report President Cleveland declining to attend the St Louis National encampment due to hostile remarks by some Grand Army of the Republic members. He says he would endure insults to avoid marring the event and hopes for unity during the encampment.
A passage on mental health likens medicine for the mind to plant remedies and notes that trials prove good qualities. It warns apathy as a moral illness that dulls virtue and condemns individuals to distorted judgment when physical illness distorts perception.
A humorous exchange describes Alderman McBoodle as a fine-looking man and recounts a tale of mistaken identity. A friend says he was mistaken for McBoodle twice, once while taking his bail and once by the sheriff, highlighting facial likeness and comic confusion.
Article notes a proposed 65 mile waterway through Schleswig Holstein linking the North Sea and the Baltic. It would be 197 feet wide at the surface, 85 feet at the bottom, and about 28 feet deep at mean high water. Construction may cost 166 million marks about 38 million dollars with Prussia paying a third and the rest by the Empire.
The piece asserts diet is the best guard against illness and that overeating harms blood and nerve force causing dyspepsia jaundice bad breath piles pimples and low spirits. It promotes Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic as a quick cure and notes it can be taken by the delicate at 50c sold by Dr Powell.
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