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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1875
Page
3
A lyric portrait of Elsie a gardener’s love for a noble landowner’s mistress. The poem contrasts Elsie’s humble devotion with the mistress’s lonely grandeur hoping Elsie’s marriage to a favored suitor will outshine royal pomp. It contemplates coronets wealth and rightful happiness beyond power.
Lizzie and Joe plan the future with Aunt George guiding frugally. Lizzie dreams of a cozy five room flat while Aunt George, strict and witty, doubts their prospects and cautions against unwise romance.
A newly married couple retreat to a country home where financial troubles loom. Lizzie's Aunt George dies leaving a modest piano as inheritance. A torn paper notes two Niagara River heroes and a strange connection to a niece, hinting at lasting family memory.
The narrator recalls Aunt George leaving five thousand dollars in a piano, a frugal legacy that becomes the seed of a small fortune. He jokes that he still checks pianos for hidden secrets, though none have appeared, noting that people rarely have more than one romance.
Religious and educational notes on Harvard women exams with eight applicants. California association seeks abolition of State Superintendent and County Superintendent offices. Wesleyan Missionary Society income reaches £185,000. Methodist and Methodist Protestant commissions plan summer meeting to form union basis.
A overview of diverse experiments including soldering with German silver and zinc, smelting and acid dissolution producing hydrocarbon carbureta, dynamite use to break large iron masses, and a proposed rubber based thermometric device. The items cite SM Proust, Mc Cloex, and Belgian journals, noting safety, economy, and material properties.
The column notes the varying theories on whether forests raise rainfall or rain spurs forest growth. It cites India where forest extent aligns with rainfall, temperate forests possibly affect rain but tropics show exceptions, and cases of rain without forests or forests with little rain.
The Chicago Times prints a purported facsimile of the new United States Treasurer’s signature. It is described as bold and characteristic, intended to adorn the government’s currency. The piece notes public interest in how the new official signs money and includes the Times’ endorsement of the reproduced autograph.
In the old days a Western man started a newspaper and joked he would accept pay in train pork tallow statuary beeswax linen potatoes milk or any barter. A fiddler called to collect with a yellow fiddle and charged ten cents per tune after playing for about an hour. The editor finally paid his bill and the fiddler declared he was an honest man noting he had one more time to play to finish the job.
Jamestown and New York Journal reports alpaca factory success turning Angora goat wool into cloth. H A Whittemore bought two Angora goats and sent them to the Fluvana farm. By afternoon a mohair dress for Miss Jennie Whittemore was ready, showing a remarkable sonic-time transformation.
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