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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1889
Page
4
Dialogue-free excerpt shows a caller urging timely attendance and asking the host to switch waltzes and polkas while handing a card. The scene involves dancers, etiquette, and light banter over music selections at a social gathering.
A brisk reminiscence follows Hank and the author recounting the eastern cattle company manager Jenks. He arrives in western New Mexico with flashy attire and fragile vanity, endures harsh Chile rations, and clashes with rough cowhands while clinging to yellow kid gloves and a worn beard. His misfit charm and boisterous critique fuel pranks like a rattlesnake in his shoe, exposing town humor and frontier life.
Charles F Lummis recalls the comic tale of Mr St Claire Fitz Clarence Jenks in Rio Tonto cattle country. Jenks arms himself with two pistol-like devices, pursues a bear with comic misadventures, and endures a night of mock warfare with a mule and sheepdog. A bear is killed by a shepherd instead, and Jenks later learns a newspaper clippings claimed his bear story.
In Yamhill a market displayed forty sturgeon averaging over one hundred pounds each caught at the Cascades. They were to be shipped to San Francisco. A fisherman called the work cold and noted sturgeon are pulled from boats with a hook and line. Bystanders described the fish coming up and the brief struggle before being gaffed.
Charles Peterson of the A H State Jer farm near Varga was buried when a large boulder rolled into a hastily dug hole as he attempted to free himself. He became badly crippled after the rock trapped his feet and limbs.
An ad extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring medicine to purify and vitalize blood and boost vigor. A collision on Fifth Street injures Miss Laura Jenkins and Miss Una Adams when a frightened horse ran away after seeing Fisher's delivery wagon decoration, though both escape serious harm.
An array of patent medicines and household tips appear, touting Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as preventive and curative, Dr Ayer's Sarsaparilla for rheumatism, and related home remedies. Railway appointments and a light domestic vignette about a mother promising a candy pill to Bennie are included.
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