Chautauqua Program Draws Large Local Attendance
The New York style Chautauqua circuit visited our town with a circular tent near the Baptist church. About 60,1075 attendees from Henry and surrounding counties filled the seats as promoters pledged strong patronage each meeting across six days. Pro tests note the event’s success and the town’s risk to guarantee funds for talent, while prophecies and income tax debates loom in separate discussions.
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Chautauqua Assembly
Baptist Church
Rey
Curiosities and Commentaries From A Rural News Page
A compilation covers cattle slaughters and a cattle plague near Batavia, Odd Fellows gifts to Lincoln Orphans Home, a humorous domestic tale, California lion cull stats, homestead land openings in Oregon Montana and New Mexico, Carnegie and heaven, cheap weekly news vs postal costs, a Chinaman defense fee, and science and education debates.
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George Weisbrook
Batavia
Humane Society
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Springfield
Lincoln Orphans
California
State Fish and Game Commission
Lane
Oregon
Montana
New Mexico
Carnegie
Carnegie Foundaton
Henry Republican
Dennis Spencer
Napa
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Spencer
Animal Kingdom
Agricultural Department
Bureau of Biology
Srl R. Hicks
British Empire
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Portugal
Spain
China
Japan
Doan's Kidney Pills Back Claims From Henry County Shopper
A crowd of Henry County residents report kidney and urinary relief from Doan's Kidney Pills. Retired farmer B Klein of Western Avenue, Werdeny, credits one box with ending nightly awakenings and discolored secretions after weeks of pain. The ad urges readers to request the Buffalo-based Doan's Kidney Pills from local dealers.
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Henry
Dean
Alll
Doan
Were
B. Klein
Western Avenue
Wrenry
Pnrée
Panama canal praised as path to world peace and prosperity
A compilation of varied notes cites the Panama Canal as a great victory for world peace, compares its cost to European war harms, and urges funds toward prosperity. Other items include pension figures, quail protection talk, labor anecdotes, and political remarks on US relations with Japan and Europe.
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Panama Canal
United States
Farmers’ Institute of
Macon County
Japan
Mann
House
Not a Question of Size Heads Up the Cleveland Child
Cleveland boasts of a four year old boy with the most perfect head and capacity for 50 ounces of brains, while experts say head size does not equal intellect. The piece recalls a past student with a large academic head yet limited learning, arguing brains aren’t measured by skull size and warning against assuming genius from a big head.
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Cleveland
Boila
Po Do Lax Ad Promises Quick Constipation Cure
An advertisement claims Po Do Lax cures constipation overnight by using Podophylin May Apple without griping. It asserts the remedy arouses the liver, increases bile flow, improves digestion, and eliminates gas and congestion. The copy urges readers to buy from their druggist to end constipation quickly.
Farm Income Rules Updated by Internal Revenue Board
A public ruling by Commissioner Osborn states that farm income from crops and crop share rentals must be reported in the year of sale or money value. Deductions for shrinkage are limited, stock purchased for resale is deductible, breeding stock deductions depend on stock loss due to disease or destruction by authorities, and farm machinery adjustments are addressed.
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue Osborn
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