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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1876
Page
3
A reflective poem warns of missed kindness and careless acts. It urges mindful living to avoid harming others with thoughtless words and actions, promising future regret if empathy is lacking. The verses lament unheeded calls for help and the sting of unkind silence.
Jennie recalls a year of marriage frugality and love as she discovers a note that reveals her husband John’s fidelity misread by a jealous moment. The note is actually from Jennie to John in their courtship, and reveals her own trust misplaced. John's honest reveal and gift gesture restore joy and vow to openness.
The account recounts Lieut Col Barton’s successful night raid from Providence on July 10 1777 to seize Maj Gen Prescott and Maj Barrington and escort them to Patriot lines. Prescott later returned to command and resumed his alleged cruelties.
A man identified as Dr H U Welm hold escapes Kirkbride’s Asylum on July Fourth and roams Long Branch, New Jersey. He tells stories to locals, boards an NJ Southern train to the coast, then checks into Leland’s Ocean Motel calling himself Dr H T Helmbold of Philadelphia and charges meals and a suite to a fictional boss druggist.
A physician known as the Doctor endured a chaotic sequence of escapes and rants after alleged sanity tests. Detectives Samuel Yoder and an assistant pursued him from the Ocean Hotel to the Mansion House and county jail, where a pane of glass injury and a wild tirade followed before he was sent home to Kirkbride's hospital on a Philadelphia dispatch.
The Atchison Champion reports Theodore Dickerson and Tom White, once partners in crime, were arrested again. Dickerson faced a seven year old mule theft from Dr. W. Hi Grimes, while White served seven years in the penitentiary. White, released, arrived in Atchison the same day Dickerson was rearrested.
A pair of young boys Johnny and Billy plan an Indian war adventure in St Louis. They stage a mock march armed with a jackknife a pistol and old books, vow to battle Sitting Bull, then retreat before leaving home, ending the tale with a cautious return to Dodier street.
A Broad Street grocer laments a ruined barrel of molasses after clerks drop it in the cellar. A six year old boy asks what his share of the loss would be as the merchant insists no customer owes anything. The exchange, recounted by Elizabeth Journal notes, ends with the father sending payment for his son’s share.
A Michigan University graduate and former city tutor, after failing to find work, attempted to enlist in the Twenty second Regiment in Fort Wayne. Officers refused him, and he then drew a revolver and threatened self harm. A reporter wrestled the weapon away and the man left, boasting that strychnine could be his next aid. Coroners are urged to be ready.
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