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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1885
Page
7
A verse from Harper's Bazaar extols children as the joy and virtue of society. It depicts them as light and blossom, with parents’ pride and a vision of moral guidance, linking their innocence to timeless spiritual ideals.
An elderly Virginian, Uncle Enoch, plans to go to Washington as a congressional page for seventeen hundred dollars a year. His son Dick imagines wealth from the page and the family prepares to send him. In a twist, Uncle Enoch stays, works as an ox driver, and teaches Dick a hard lesson about pretension and labor.
The article surveys mild to severe signs of abstraction and absence of mind as indicators of abnormal mental states. It cites Archimedes Newton Beethoven Johnson and Mme de Stael as illustrations of temporary impairment and delusions. It notes early forms as eccentric habits and more serious stages as persistent delusions and fear, referencing Pascal and the nineteenth century.
A collage of sayings and light verse from the early 20th century offers quips on love, wit, and life. It mingles headlines, verses, and humor from sources like the Boston Transcript and N.Y Graplac, with rattling lines on nature and daily life, including caricatured dialog and regional wordplay.
Reports show the City Mission of Berlin circulating 75 000 Sunday prayer leaflets while Rangoon Burma hosts its fortieth Baptist Theological Seminary anniversary. Harvard oversees abolishing degrees on political prominence and the Methodist Episcopal Church reports rapid growth with 52 colleges and 11 million endowment. Berlin and Gettysburg memorial plans are noted along with university statistics at Berlin and Smith College’s decade of growth.
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