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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1903
Page
2
The piece cites two 1802 prize fight deaths and many football injuries, noting 21 football fatalities in three months and 15 from neck or spine breaks. It quotes Elbert Hubbard and mentions Cosmopolitan’s claim about two youths in asylums due to football, urging readers to question the sport’s manliness.
The article notes the widespread use of the name Washington across the United States with numerous towns counties and geographic features. It mentions Washington Land in Greenland and Cape Washington near it along with Washington in Oxford County Ontario and Washington Island near Hawaii and Mount Washington in a Fiji island.
The Monmouth Republicans fault public schools for poor spelling and reading, urging stricter exams and diplomas for graduates. The Morria Herald notes dangers in removing dams on the Illinois river, urging informed views before joining canal and sanitary district campaigns.
State Superintendent Alfred Bayliss announces a ten inch gold medal award to one rural school teacher who submits the best Arbor Day program next year. County and high school teachers are excluded. Five theme scrapbooks will go to five schools per county showing notable progress, plus ten large flags to top ten schools. Distribution rules to be set by county superintendents at the April 14–16 meeting in Springfield.
General Thomas Jefferson Henderson of Princeton argues to save the Illinois and Michigan canal from abandonment. He urges building a larger lake Michigan to Illinois river canal before closing the canal, cites Iowa support for the Hennepin canal and cheaper transport as justification. He questions Rainey’s figures and defends ongoing state obligations to maintain the canal as a public highway.
An editorial notes Vanderbilts and other stockholders shifting funds from steam railroads to electric lines. Electric carriers expand freight service for dairy and farm produce, cutting steam routes to few through freights. If prosperity lasts, steam roads may recover, but an east to west wave suggests major expansion in two years.
The readable fragments suggest a garbled note about kindness and care, but no clear event, people, or organizations are identifiable. Unable to extract concrete facts for a proper historical record.
The writer argues some deafness cases are incurable but many show improvement. He cites visits where old patients suffer hearing loss, noting how essential hearing is for conversation and church lectures. He claims to have strengthened ear nerves and cured hundreds of youths.
Testimonials from patients in Illinois and nearby states praise a treatment by Mrs Diverbiss for deafness and related hearing issues. Reports from Galesburg and Fairbury describe rapid improvement without medicines or instruments, with observers endorsing her methods and urging others to seek her care.
Advertiser promotes a home treatment system claiming to cure any disease regardless of location. Encourages readers to visit the office if possible or send for home treatment with simple instructions and guaranteed results.
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