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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1874
Page
3
Fragmentary verse describes a poet likening his youth to a carefree trout in a stream until love and misfortune wither his joy. The piece uses rustic imagery of ponds, hawthorn shade, and nature to convey lost innocence and longing.
A poem celebrating the twilight hour after a hard day of work. A parent invites joy for a child as the vesper bell and evening breeze mark peace and a shareable, blessed moment. The speaker reflects on weariness and the comfort found in the hour of play and rest together.
The narrator and a companion travel by palanquin through a moonlit bamboo jungle when the bearers abandon them. After Waldron shows signs of cholera, the narrator is stalked by a tiger. He escapes, aided by a European civilian who arrives with medicine and later helps depart to Pooree. A tiger skin is later claimed as the killer’s trophy.
An obituary editor recalls a two to three year tenure at the Aforning Argus the village paper. He mentions employing an assistant editor named Drinker and a manager’s instruction to clip biographical sketches of prominent men appearing in exchanges or elsewhere.
Maz Adeler recounts an obituary clerk's muddled cache of biographies misfiled for John Wesley Hancock Putnam and Hancock. The clerk misreads ages and deaths, exclaims shock at supposed recent demises, and is discharged after insisting Hancock died 10 000 years ago.
In Danbury News a curious domestic feud is described as two women share a house on Essex Street. One lives upstairs the other downstairs. They quarrel over rain water rights and the south corner spout while sharing a cellar and back stoop. They pass each other daily without speaking yet their mutual taunts fuel a noisy joyful household.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips ranging from misheard verb forms to domestic mishaps. Jests involve a Kansas lawyer a teasing father a parson and a child all tied to playful language and comic misunderstandings.
A man visiting a Portland cemetery overheard a thrice-widowed, not elderly woman remark to a companion about the graves. She said to the gentleman, who had shown care for her, that with more courage he might have joined the row of the departed.
In Danbury Mrs Coville spent a half hour attempting to sink a nail above an outside door. Mr Coville, a large man, struck his nose with a hammer that jumped from the handle, claws pierced the flesh on each side of the bridge causing a frightful injury. Neighbors found him in distress as Mrs Coville fainted.
The article describes the Tom Collins gag in New York saloons with Jones chasing Collins as he visits Brown's and other spots. It notes businessmen mock the prank despite stock speculations being rare, calling the pastime an idiotic amusement.
An American inventor in New York proposes a tin pail with perforated bottom holes to purify fresh drawn milk. Milk is poured through a strainer into the pail and flows in streams, the air deodorizing the liquid as it passes, removing offensive odors before collection.
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