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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
11
A nostalgic poem from Harper's Magazine reflects on the guest Death arriving after a long life of love youth and sorrow. The house waits as lovers friendships and memories linger through May sunshine and blue skies. The speaker accepts Death as a guest who will enter when fate allows.
In a blistering South African stage coach bound for Wellington a band of miners and brokers endure heat thirst and peril. The pistol-wielding outlaws are killed in a swift double ambush by a spectacled colporteur who reveals a police background and captures the gang including McArthur and Smith who turns out to be a detective. The rose diamond is recovered, revealing Ned Girard and the narrator’s lost gem. A London bank raid suspect is identified as William Hardy. A baby is named Mary Kennedy Hewitt Ger certo Lundberg aboard the Germanic on arrival in New York.
Richard A. Proctor discusses the material life of a planet as a real form of life with a beginning and a cooling trajectory. He explains the mid life stage of Earth as conducive to life before death conditions return, noting subterranean forces shape continents and oceans. He argues that volcanic and tectonic activity both endanger and sustain life, leaving Earth fit to harbor life for hundreds of thousands more years.
A Norwich New York woman died after ingesting burnt bread the doctors say perforated her stomach. The Buffalo Leader reports the claim and notes accompanying editorials in the New Orleans Picayune inviting correspondents to write on either side of the paper.
The Old Settler recalls a night out drinking and a lie to his wife about bringing chestnuts home. He buys a chestnut vendor’s stock, returns to a stunned home, and faces a thrashing from his wife after she discovers the deception. He ends with the quip that the chestnuts were boiled.
A collage of humorous clippings from Boston New York Chicago and other papers featuring jokes about art loans birds poetry editors and innkeepers. Snippets include playful lines about tiles walls ragdolls and cheeky exchanges among travelers and readers.
A roundup of well known individuals and their activities across journalism politics and literature. Edith Jeffrey funds education and charities while writing poems. George D. Robinson traces lineage to Dolor Davis and Massachusetts governorship. Ah Yank King returns after study. Miss Bessie Jones edits a newspaper in Athens Ohio. Agnes May Fleming story name rights. William Evarts remains productive though frail. cabinet critiques and a broad scan of contemporary novelists and criticism.
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