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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1888
Page
3
Items span politics and crime from the era including remarks on Van Buren and Cleveland, London and New York police forces, a Ger mantown pastor sermon, an alcoholic trance defense in New York, Tennessee political entertainers AM and Bob, a tiny steam engine for Paris, and Australia fencing to exclude jack rabbits. notes on Crown lands spending.
The piece notes the U S Army maximum of 25 000 enlisted men and over 1 780 courts martial and 10 447 trials in the past year. It also mentions paper bottles as heat and cold resistant nonconductors, plus Bangor Maine as a spool stock export point and New Jersey horticultural shows featuring a rare chrysanthemum from Japan.
The piece notes a nationwide sense of plenty after favorable crops surpassing historical droughts and highlights unprecedented fruit yields in the Ohio Valley. It also reports that the New York Herald discusses extending the Presidential term to six years and estimates a $500 million drop in internal commerce tied to the campaign. It then outlines Grover Cleveland’s finances and career, estimating his wealth rise and remaining salary.
A discussion on the immutability of matter, its invisible transformations, and how substances like silver dissolve in nitric acid or charcoal burns yet yields no ash, with references to atoms and molecules beyond direct perception and the enduring evidence that matter cannot be destroyed.
In a Harlem basement a traveling vendor hawked counterfeit patent cement to a reluctant buyer. The exchange shows a comic scene of insistence and reluctance as the woman finally buys four bottles. The piece ends noting a parrot from Poughkeepsie that could speak English Dutch and Portuguese, valued at 800 dollars.
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