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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1888
Page
4
Henry Republican notes an American procession of bank officers and bookkeepers favoring a Detroit river tunnel for easy access to Canada. It cites other items on a libel case against the Italian steamship Robjani, Yucatan military pay, and new navy vessel Stiletto with top speed and dimensions.
The text notes large fortunes in Pennsylvania oil, citing Wm. Phillips of Newcastle amassing about 4 million since 1879 and Vandergrift of Pittsburgh taking 5 million since 1880, with many others earning a million plus in the period.
The article describes a proposed air vessel to be Congress supported, cigar shaped and sized to rise by buoyancy when exhaust of internal air lowers its weight. It would carry a burden and be powered by an electric engine with systems to regulate attitude and course.
The note claims Barrirons gains 100000 residents and five nearby towns merge with the city. It cites 1880 Baltimore population 882000 and projects growth to about 350000 or 875008. The addition would place the city near a ten million notch, elevating it from seventh to fifth among U S cities.
A scientist notes a pattern in geography where temperance grows north of the forty eighth parallel, amatory behavior below the forty fifth, financial extravagance in large seaports, and thrift in pastoral highlands. He speculates faults could arise from transporting offenders between climates.
A German court punished a telephone customer who complained about long waits by telling the operator to stop talking and not lie. He was fined sixty marks and sentenced to twelve days in jail to deter abusive use of a scientific convenience in a century-old telephone system.
A Brooklyn church runs a club connected to the church with a library shooting gallery and other amusements. About one hundred members include mechanics merchants and literary men. Meeting weekly for discussion shooting games and conversation. The minister is noted as a skilled checker player and mark shooter in sermons and in the gallery.
A well near Lexington Missouri shows remarkable phenomena as water becomes heavily charged with electricity. Machinery and tubing connected to the sinking well become strongly magnetized and any steel rubbed on the pipes will magnetize. A shock is felt when touching two pipe pieces, and the water at high temperature magnetizes any steel substance placed in it.
Special Correspondent describes access to the Old Seraglio and Dolma Baghtshi palaces in Constantinople, detailing rooms filled with jeweled treasures and mirrors, the Bosphorus views, and the opulent interiors. He also observes dervish dances and murkier religious practices among Sufi orders with careful, non-graphic narration.
A loud slow chant by a dervish group is described with penitential robes and a trance like dance. The sheik blesses children, and some participants fall exhausted or foam at the mouth while others are soothed by the hymn. The scene is likened to revival meetings, with warnings about press corrections to older Luxor notes.
The piece notes Brandreth's Pills as a long trusted medicine, praised for fifty years of popularity as a safe effective blood purifier tonic and alterative. It highlights ongoing use by long-time users and broad availability in drug stores in plain or sugar coated forms. The excerpt also mentions a St Paul Press article about Pierre Dakota describing it as the queen city with river Missouri surroundings, climate, fertile farming, water works, street cars, and fine Pierre bricks produced there.
Marshall Robbey and Mr McAdams enter the restaurant trade near the Santa Fe depot at Chillicothe. They have built and equipped a new building with every indication of a thriving venture. The Ohio valley and Central states Centennial celebration runs in Cincinnati from July 4 to October 27. School tablets offered at the office, two for a nickel.
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