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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1872
Page
5
A satirical verse laments an editor toiling over headlines and copy. The human editor endures clippings and mockery as pages rip, condensing the craft into a weary, quizzical song about papers and press life.
The piece humorously questions whether brains control thinking, noting brains seem in odd places and suggesting some people lack brains entirely. It wanders through playful observations about where brains sit and how they influence action, ending with a caution to stay watchful.
The piece decries the 1868 Cincinnati convention battles among Liberal Republicans and Democrats. It names Horace Greeley, Lyman Trumbull, Schurz, White, Chase, Palmer, Hendricks and others, accusing factions of treachery and predicting political death for key figures. It laments the party’s collapse into a cleaving farce.
A biographical sketch traces Horace Greeley born Amherst New Hampshire February 8 1811 from farmer father Zaccheus to a journeyman compositor in York State and New York City. It covers early printing ventures the Morning Post first penny daily the Daily Tribune creation in 1841 political rise from 1848 and his agricultural reformist writings.
A compilation of statistics and curiosities: voters in Britain number 2,526,428. Boston firms can 800,000 lobsters yearly. 275 baseball games planned. April German immigrants total 14,979. Paris daily papers capital 14 million dollars. Vienna costs 200,000 florins. Wisconsin tobacco 10,000,000 pounds. Mormon 200 members with 17 leaving. Chicago grain stocks and Milwaukee receipts. rail, ship, and railway data. diverse notices on courts, salaries, and clergy.
Recipes and home cures cover stain removal with salt curing rats using lime to deter pests and freckles treated with lemon juice borax and sugar. Also included are a Hickory Nut Cake recipe, rose pruning guidance, strawberry dessert, corn starch paste for scrapbooks, and bleaching of cotton with soda and chloride of lime, plus a lemon pie and tongue toast method.
A Chicago Post summary notes a rebel's life including peaceable secession advocacy for the Southern States in 1861, his bail of Jefferson Davis in 1865, and a joking nomination at the 1873 Cincinnati Free Trade Convention. The passages reflect a biographical sketch and later life reflections.
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