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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1879
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR text notes a character or figure awaiting a king and vows of devotion. Mentions a figure who walks armed and unaffrayed with no found king. Ends with a reference to Hamilton Aide in Temple Bar.
An Irish adventurer Tom Donahue and friend Jack recount a Cape Town bound tale of a haunted Sasassa Valley and a supposed luminous diamond. A ghost story leads to a planned dig and a misdirected chase when a rock salt prank and clever ruse reveal the gem never existed in the cliff circle.
The tale recounts Jack Turnbull and Tom Donahue discovering a rock-salt jewel at a cliff, levering loose stones to reveal a bright gem. They celebrate their find, later prospering with farming and ostrich raising in Africa, and settle neighbors like Dick Wharton, with Jack Turnbull remembered in Sasassa Farm.
Mrs Kavanagh of Albany Street reported her daughters Margaret and Mary aged five and three had a child nabbed in the street. A woman with a delicate complexioned child was seen with the girl later at the station house. The girl identified the kidnapper who claimed the child followed her. The accused was arraigned at the Tombs Police Court and committed for trial in General Sessions on $1,000 bail. The family joyously reunited with Mamie.
Detroit Free Press recounts a Woodward avenue grocer delaying a delivery after missed items, feigning clerks sick, claiming a committee offered an alderman nomination, and promising to undersell to placate a patient customer. The piece also notes Dr. Eugene A. Smith’s Alabama coal bed survey and a humorous anecdote about a mustard plaster mishap.
A religious monologue speaks of toil and burden at dusk, confessing heavier inner work than earthly harvest. The speaker kneels at thy feet, asking the Lord of the harvest to accept the weary offerings, hoping for patient love and recognition of effort.
The Rev. F. C. Morris quotes Tyndall and Virchow in a selection from the Journal nightly Review. The passages challenge physical science as sole explanation for sensation and thought, noting unresolved mysteries, limits of evolution theory, and the insolubility of body and soul connections.
Mr Arlong reports experiments on chloral showing decomposition to chloroform and alkaline forms in animal blood. He argues anesthetic effects arise from chloroform and are aided by increased circulation from alkaline formates.
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