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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1881
Page
6
A Paris Grand Opera winter season highlights Ex Isabella and a famed chorus of beautiful women as major draws. Liszt’s restless relocation and disdain of the sea are noted, while English and continental elites push petitions to end Monaco gambling tables and support amnesty for returning Communists.
An account from the Vienna Medical Wochenschrift details Prof. Billroth and his students performing the first successful stomach cancer resection. The operation opened the stomach, removed the cancer, joined the edges, and proved survivable, a historic milestone in surgical history.
The surgeon describes removing a large cancer from a patient's stomach. The patient recovered rapidly with minimal disturbance to digestion. The doctor notes a relapse was unlikely and expresses pride in medical progress and student efforts.
John Sanpens a mail carrier on a Ukiah route was threatened by a masked “road agent” named Tussy Harper who demanded money then rode off. Harper was arrested but released after prosecutors dropped charges, claiming the incident was a drunken prank. the story notes the man returned to his sheep herding in the mountains.
The article by Geo M Towle recalls Carlyle twelve years later, detailing a thick set, medium height figure with shaggy gray hair, a low forehead, deep gray-blue eyes, and a somber contemplative expression. He is described in shabby clothing and heavy shoes, with a notably robust yet awkward frame and a stern Scottish styled bearing.
A scattered column mixes social gossip and oddities from Virginia and Washington. It mentions Mr Spendsy Coonrawn’s marriage to Miss Bethany Hubbard in Virginia, a Montreal landlord harshly turning a family to the street, and various vignettes on crime, fashion, and science. It also covers demographics from census data, New Zealand geology, and a Seneca hunter’s death, finishing with a centenarian in New Hampshire.
In Leicester a Remnant appeared claiming to be the estate holder of the late Wyne Stanley who vanished years ago while High Sheriff of Leicestershire. Family disputes led Stanley to leave, his mother not seeing him again. He was traced to France, £10,000 was sent for his support, then lost in agricultural speculation. Stanley’s entire estate was reportedly wasted through investments.
Report from Liverpool Chronicle notes a Leicester detective Shuith traced a body in the Rhine later identified as Wynn Stanley. Doubt remains over suicide, while a French marriage and a potential heir emerge. Leicester Workingmen’s Land Society faces estate duties after purchasing cottages from Carlyon.
A groom weds at St Johns Church on Dryads Street when a veiled woman enters with a child and declares the groom her husband. An officer removes the intruder amid cries as the ceremony resumes. The claimant cites four years of shared belief, while the bride confronts an upheaval over a desertion.
Mrs. Josephine Graham details the so called sunken Little Gull Island in Lake Michigan five miles southeast of Rock Feland. The stone island formed of small pebbles once housed a fish shanty and vanished as waters rose, leading to theories of mystery while natural forces likely leveled the shoal.
A survey of speculative notes includes a Paris firm’s perfume leaf substitute for tobacco in cigars and fireproof cement slabs from treated cotton. Beacon lights from compressed gas promise two months of operation. Swammerdam’s insect treatise hints at half butterfly creatures. Rail overland and canal backs gain support, while Dr. Lodge explains electricity’s link to light and Maxwell’s electromagnetic view.
A collage of quips and snippets from regional papers notes a wary gas man, winter mishaps, young women killed while coasting, and a series of jokes about editors, clocks, and dying figures. The fragments reflect early 20th century newspaper humor and social chatter.
A well known U P engineer with a speech impediment faced private questioning after a snow collision reportedly killed a cow on his run. He claimed not to recall the accident but admitted seeing the cow on the track and suggesting it was moving. The scene ends with a warning to beware such signals in the future.
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