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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
4
A humorous verse about a high school senior class, naming girls and boys by nicknames and traits. It celebrates personalities from Seitz sights to German play and slang, mentioning Mary, Rose, Violet, Elsie Bacon, Bud, Kenneth, Arthur, Bill, and Lela among others with affectionate jabs and schoolyard whimsy. The piece evokes small town mores, rural country life, and late 19th or early 20th century social milieu through playful portraits.
The article recounts the 1913 class with portraits of members born 1894–1896, noting Eugene Leavitt nicknamed Red, Violet Ballowe g, Elsie Bacon, Charles Hartley, Frances Smith, Katherine Hennefeld, Irma Vogelsang, Ruth Griscells, Bud Greenlee, Carrie Huffstetter, Arthur Ryan, Mary Broline, Henry Ransom, and others. It highlights their births, entry years, traits, and light anecdotes, ending with a reflection on the class illuminating the high school.
This week ends the Henry Public School term with the high school commencement at Pavilion Park. Class members include Eugene Jenness Harrison Gregory Charles Hartley Carrie Greenlee Rose Stadel Kenneth Helper Ruth Griscel Henry Ransom Frances Smith Irma Vogelsang Elsie Bacon Violet Balloweg Kathryn Hennefeld Grace Huffstetter Mary Broline Arthur Ryan. Francis Blair will deliver the address on The High School Graduate. A funeral epitome for Louis Hennefeld notes Fr. Gensler’s reading from Matthew 10 14 and the late youth’s widowed mother.
An advertisement touts Prof Kopf as a renowned healer lecturer in psychology suggestive therapeutics phrenology hygiene and heredity. It claims government and postal approval and offers free two weeks treatment for the poor with sessions on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday from 8 am to 8 pm near Duke Bros Book Store.
A Catholic priest reflects on guiding a young man through death with spiritual support, sacraments, and moral lessons. He recalls the boy’s Catholic schooling, family ties, and the impact of his brief life on peers, urging a virtuous, prayerful life moving forward.
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