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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1889
Page
3
A crowded fare of shop offerings and notices from Henry Illinois merchants and locals. Ads promote cakes tea flour molasses baking powder and bread along with wagon buggies coal and hardware. Community items cover visits, rail work, school contracts, illness, and local events.
A report covers a wet evening sociable at the Mr church with ice cream and a stray cake theft, plus a Bro Gaston guest from Lacon. It notes a Henry syndicate starting Hyer Antiseptic Co and shipments, heat driven ice cream at Library Hall, music by Miss Juda Dent and Nellie Baxendale, and a late night burglar scare with window tampering and a shooting incident involving Homer Swift and Barker Swift. It ends with a legal recount of a Hartland case and a resolved confrontation.
May term court notes probate reports guardianships and appointments including estate proceedings for Solomon Sowards Mary Fisher Parker Lambert and other estates, insanity inquiries, conservatorship orders, proofs of publication, creditor claims and final guardian reports. Several appraisals and bonds filed, with commissions and commitments ordered.
Mucklen's Arnica Salve claims to cure cuts bruises sores fevers and many skin eruptions with guaranteed satisfaction or money back. Sold for 25 cents per box at Dr Powell's drug store.
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