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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1872
Page
3
A surreal passage mocks editors while evoking a wandering Jew motif. The speaker imagines clipping a human editor and railing against worn paper curls and bustles, ending with a jab about chasing something new as the managing editor swears by an old trope.
A humorous riff on Branes a supposed thinking organ with mis spellings and odd placements. The piece jokes branes located all over the body including heels elbows and tongue and argues some people seem to have brainlike flair in certain body parts while warning against overreaching conclusions.
The Chicago Inter Ocean depicts a brutal Cincinnati Liberal Republican convention where factions slaughtered principles and leaders. It condemns Horace Greeley, Horace White, and Schurz while noting dead or wounded rivals and the collapse of the coalition amid accusations of treachery and miscalculation.
A satirical profile traces Horace Greeley born February 8 1811 in Amherst New Hampshire. It follows his rise from farmer’s son to editor of the Morning Post and Weekly New Yorker and finally the Daily Tribune with focus on his early trades and political ascent.
The clippings list voter counts for Great Britain, lobster production in Boston, hat styles, baseball games, German and tobacco figures, Paris newspaper investment, Vienna printing costs, Wisconsin tobacco, life insurance profits, cornets bands, Canadian railroad surveys, Boston iron imports, Arctic expeditions, Cashmere prayer wheels, Mormon split, Turin centenarians, Chicago grain stocks, Milwaukee wheat receipts, legal costs, Washington female labor, Mt. Vernon widow, Virginia oyster shipments, North Carolina fish prices, California rice interest, Western Union telegraph expansion, ancient Rome roof trusses, St. Mark’s timber, East River dimensions, and a Brooklyn robbery tale.
A collection of dated home remedies and kitchen recipes including stain removal with salt, rat control with lime, freckle treatment, cakes and breakfast dishes, rose pruning guidance, berry dessert with milk sauce, corn starch paste for scrapbooks, chlorine bleaching of cotton, a lemon pie variation, tongue toast, and curl hair methods with cautions about heating and drying.
The passage cites three major events in a rebel leader's life: peaceable secession advocacy for the Southern States in 1861, aiding Jefferson Davis in 1865, and a joking nomination at the Cincinnati Free-Trade Convention in 1872 referenced by the Chicago Post.
A startled visitor at a door seized attention with a revolver, forcing a fleeing intruder who looted a deceased husband’s will, watch, and chain. Coleman Robinson, injured in Putnam County, marries his fiancée Miss Little on the injured man’s urging, but dies soon after. Robinson’s estate is valued at 1.6 million dollars as Mrs. Robinson transitions from maid to wife to widow in 24 hours. A California Alpine County report lists twenty deaths since settlement with varied causes and notes a lack of physicians for five years.
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