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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1887
Page
8
Greene county elects Laura Hazel as Indy school superintendent while New York school board members Mrs Agnew and Miss Dodge push school sanitation and building comfort. The text extols women's education in England and argues for home reform to prevent youth delinquency and promote virtuous, educated families.
Miss Catherine Heathorne known as the Maid of Kent lives in Maidstone Kent at age 104 retaining health and memory. She recalls tying candle bundles for McPaintrelip’s climber in Chatham for sailors on Nelsons Victory and boarding the ship before Trafalgar and again on its return. She was baptized in All Saints church Maidstone in April 1788.
A bustling street scene shows Mexican clerks and their carriages laden with goods. Salesmen haggle with customers, bringing out box after box of items in a frenzy of activity and color as matching shades and trims are displayed at the curb.
A Fort Worth Gazette letter contrasts male and female shopping habits with vivid notes on stores crowded with goods mixed by category. It cites a Paris pianist praised as the Liszt of the future, and profiles women advancing in journalism, farming, librarianship, and invention while commenting on social shifts and labor.
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