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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1904
Page
8
Our stock goes fast as our grocery offers promise big savings. Trade with us to cut your bill by half while we pay the highest market price for butter eggs and other staples. Visit our restaurant today for candy nuts olears tobaccos and more.
Last week in Sparland and nearby towns features a mix of obituaries, marriages, fires, and movers. Notables include Jamey Elliott heading to California, Emma Clifton’s marriage to Clyde McLaughlin, Henry area deaths, and a pontoon crossing due to ice. Community events, church meetings, and local business changes are noted alongside family updates and visits.
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A physician notes the usefulness of Herbine for treating dyspepsia from excess or overwork and asks if the profession can obtain it in bulk for prescribing. He reports no reports of failing to restore organs to healthful activity. Dr Powell's drug store offers a 50 cent bottle.
Mail service and weather woes frame a string of Hopewell and Richland notes. Train mishap near Alton stirs concerns over safety. Marriages, dinners, farm sales, and local court attendance fill community items, with updates on school staff changes and road work.
The district held a Saturday afternoon school election and voters approved a new schoolhouse. The weather was cold with a big snow on Monday morning. Local residents noted visits and social calls among neighbors including J D Hull, Grace Marshall, DielHe Marland, and others.
John French lunch counter supplies were sold Tuesday at auction to the highest bidder to satisfy creditors. The community hears about sick residents including Harriet Holmes and Mrs Wilson. Noah and Aden Washburn plan to work seasons in Missouri and Iowa respectively. New sidewalks enhance Camp Grove streets after a snow filled weekend.
Judge Albert of Florid visited Hennepin on Monday to settle his administrator's affairs at county court and teased locals about his rheumatism. He had been sick for three weeks and the region's pike from Bureau to Hennepin remained flooded. Taxes: H E Raley will close books on the 15th, urging immediate payment. Granville figures Burt Huot and officials were in town. A Christmas sausage gift delighted readers. Ammonia on moustache trick noted but silly. Dr C D Maulfair reported practicing locally and G P Deyoe has been homebound with rheumatism for three weeks.
Friday featured Mrs I k Smith's birthday and a WCTU meeting followed by a birthday supper. Hubert Beck's farewell party with friends, planning moves to Montana. others, including J E Morris to Arkansas and Cassie Swaney, Annie Foster, and J C Willets, reported sick or ill.
A compact town chronicle mentions Dame Runiner predicting a young man’s future marriage, Dr J G Boardman’s return to duty after illness, and Squire Edmund’s renewed illness. It covers pneumonia deaths, birthdays, visits by relatives, a group of glass blowers in the old post office, and various small community movements and rentals.
Mrs W Wat king of Pleasant City Ohio shares how her son narrowly survived pneumonia after a harsh cough. Doctors failed, but Dr Ming's New Discovery cured him, now sound and well. The remedy for coughs colds and all lung diseases is sold by Dr Powell's drug store, 50c and 1.00 with free trial bottles offered.
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