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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1902
Page
3
A large selection of white lawn waists features fine embroidery, tucks, and hemstitched collars. Styles include five insertion rows with tuck work and open-work embroidery, with prices from 2.50 to 4.00, promoted as season’s prettiest and particularly cheap. Includes paper patterns.
A newspaper advertisement touts a wash goods sale with Green Trading Stamps offered with every 1 cent purchase. It promises thousands of yards of new designs in wash fabrics including sheer batiste, silk mulls, Grenadines, lawns, Madras shirting, covert skirting, duck suiting, and plain silk and linen tissues at reduced prices, with sales highlights and per yard prices.
The Peoria Daily Herald Transcript notes growing river trips as heat and humidity drive people to lake and river excursions. It highlights Colonel Isaac Taylor’s work for a Chicago to sea waterway, citing a $200,000 federal survey and cost estimates, and envisions a connected Illinois river system boosting Peoria, Chicago, and regional commerce.
Washington notes approve a river and harbor bill funding Illinois priorities. Key items include survey for a fourteen foot channel from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi, $200,000. improvements to the Illinois and Calumet rivers. basins, harbors at Waukegan and Quincy. levee work at Shawneetown. riprap along the Mississippi east shore. and multiple authorized surveys on the Mississippi, Rock River, Ohio, and related banks to guide navigation and protection.
Miss Hannah Hall aged 45 of Bradford died by suicide at the Galesburg sanitarium in a singular act. Fearing her mother’s mental decline and her own possible dementia she bound a gown around her neck to a bedstead and hanged herself. Attendants had cleared items that could harm her. later the body was sent to Bradford for burial where a brother resides.
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Kase powder to loosen tight shoes and ease coins bunions, promising instant relief and comfort. It also touts Allen's Foot-Vase as a cure for sweating hot feet and sore spots, offered at 25 cents with mail order options from Allen Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Charles A. Hensel, tried in Bureau County Circuit Court for the alleged murders of his wife and others, was given a life sentence in Joliet Pen by a jury. Attorneys seek a new trial with July 11 set for the hearing. Hensel, described as resembling the McKinley assassin Czolgosh, appeared reconciled in jail with claims of guilt for four deaths including his wife and mother-in-law.
A letter urges improvements in Central Park with iron settees and a cement path. Edith Dennis is elected Sparland grammar teacher replacing Karme Franks, while Mildred Allen begins a second year. Mrs W H Williams plans a San Francisco trip this summer to visit relatives.
Advertises Red Cross Ball Blue as a stain removing agent to keep whites bright. Notes a 2 oz package for five cents and availability from grocers. Mentions dates 6-19 and encourages customers to buy for laundry freshness.
A Galesburg Register inspired notice outlines the Western Illinois railway project across Knox, Stark and Marshall counties. The plan includes a Cahinda pottery and tile works, Etherley coal mining for coke, a tonnage line not for passengers, and construction milestones with first ten miles graded ready for cars by mid June.
President Roosevelt, while traveling in Idaho, asks about the author of Winning of the West. A bookseller calls him a ranch driver and the president quips he would have been more successful if he stuck to ranching, in a tale cited by Woman's Home Companion.
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