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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1885
Page
2
A poetic vignette celebrating the rose as summer’s crown, vivid with imagery of gates opening, crimson and white blooms, fragrant air, and scenes from cottage doors to village streets. The speaker questions which is lovelier the rose or the beloved, inviting a wiser voice to answer.
A New York ticket broker recounts a harsh view of discount rail fares and a poignant encounter with a poor woman seeking a Chicago ticket. The narrator reflects on his own shifts from sharp practice to a possible act of kindness as he races to catch the same train she rode.
A veteran railroad man recalls a dramatic encounter with a Broadway scalper on a Pullman train. He tracks a ticket scam from a crippled passenger, exposes the fraud, and reveals a brother and sister mystery tied to a selfless rescue. The tale ends with the conductor’s vow to keep helping others with cut rates to the end.
A Tribune report says at least 1,509 girls, mostly French, work in artificial flower manufacture in lofts near the French Quarter. The process uses stacked silk sheets cut by stamp, then dyed and shaped. New York supplies about half the stock, with cheaper versions made locally. The industry also converts ostrich feathers and plumes, with a prominent dealer expanding operations and tied to a famous trotting horse owner in racing circles.
Asa S. Curtis of Stratford conducted a nine year test on a Rhode Island greening apple tree. By removing blossom buds in off years he aims to force blossoms in off years and finally achieve full bloom in the expected off year, with the 1884 season predicted to yield a heavy bloom. Hartford Times reports Curtis’s perseverance and theory.
The Hartford Post notes Mrs. Livermore was the first woman to address a Harvard College assembly, speaking there recently. The New York Advocate reports rising Methodist Church membership by 40,000 in three months. The Boston Latin School marks its 250th anniversary, a pioneer in America's public education system, older than Harvard. Catholic causes claim about 100,000 colored members in the U.S. The St Joseph's Missionary Society began formal work among them thirteen years ago and held its first general chapter at Baltimore ten years ago. A clergyman’s missionary box drew generous gifts with its horn at the church door. Prof Blackie and Prof Christison are cited as eccentric educators at Edinburgh University. Chautauqua plans a Town and Country Club to focus on practical agriculture and home life, requiring members to select farm or garden tasks and report results.
A collection of light vignettes and quips from a 19th century column. Jests about vanity dignity and social foibles mix with short humorous exchanges among families friends and strangers. Notes on humor in daily life appear with names and light regional flavor.
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