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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1880
Page
5
Local ad dense column listing shop openings and goods at Goulds and Kline’s with prices on stoves carpets and boots. Several notices cover moves, portraits of residents, and social events plus a fatal railroad accident at Breeds and obituaries in Chillicothe.
Reports show scarlet fever surging in Wenona and canal opening expected on the 20th. Weather stirred Tuesday by a morning snow storm elsewhere, with several citizens attending the ship canal meeting. Local commerce notes include the Lawn Ridge cheese factory selling over 1000 pounds at 12 cents, and Gould's new spring ads driving sales.
Community notices report sermons and services at Christian and Presbyterian churches, sociables at Qgon g resational and M E churches, a Marshall lodge meeting, and a Whitefield town caucus. Also noted are Rev A Bushnell lecture attendance and praise, with references to local visitors and civic events.
Ballou's Monthly Magazine notes its April issue from Thomes & Talbot Boston priced 1.50. Peterson's Magazine April features embroidery designs and color printables for tea-table cloths towels pillow-cases and handkerchief markers. Harper's Magazine April offers illustrations and pieces on England music Chester Valley New Mexico and Lucca della Robbia works with multiple fiction pieces and nature essays.
The Magnolia Sunday school ladies host an entertainment at the M E church on Saturday, March 20. Proceeds fund repairs to the building with patronage requested from readers of the PROGRAM. Contains prayer, a move on chorus, Ella Park recital, Helen Otto recitation, David Ruble declamation, and a temperance musical drama Better than Gold. admission 16 cents.
A large Tuesday evening gathering at the MM. E. parsonage to honor Rev. and Mrs. David yielded cash and supplies totaling 100 from Henry and Snachwine. The note expresses gratitude and describes the act as a bright ray of sun in memory. Additionally a testimonial for St Jacobs Oil is included from John Schleyer praising relief from back pain.
E H Hutchins plans a new room 20 by 40 feet to store boots carpets and wallpaper as his stock grows. The expansion signals a large trade with many visitors impressed by the extensive selection and the idea that locals need not travel out of town for furnishings.
Rev O L Darter of Chicago lectured at the Temple on Saturday about comets as celestial travelers. He traced their history from Aristotle through Tycho Brahe and Kepler to Newton, and reviewed famed comets like Halley and 1811. The talk lasted an hour. next lecture on April 10 will discuss The Transit of Venus.
An advertisement touts Dr Kiux's New Discovery for throat and lung ailments claiming over 1,000,000 bottles used with perfect satisfaction. It promotes Portaline tablets for dyspepsia and liver complaints and Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment for piles, urging readers to obtain trial bottles and drugstore purchases.
Headquarters for sewing machines invites customers to Alfred Burnham's place to buy a Montreal Singer for 22.50 and new Night running Howe for 25, along with The White The American or most any machine at low cash or time payment terms.
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