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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1882
Page
6
A dramatic reminiscence unfolds as two old acquaintances recall Mabel ten years later. One narrator laments changes in Mabel while another reveals plans of marriage and lingering affection, recalling childhood dances and a hopeful yet conflicted outlook on the past.
A six person party sails from Bar Harbor on a breezy morning with fog in the corner of the bay. They plan a casual wedding on an island near Southwest Harbor as locals speculate about parson and marriage details. The crew includes George, a nonclerical-yachting host, while Helen and Lizbeth express eager anticipation despite the unpredictable wind.
On Bar Harbor island a wedding at a weathered cottage draws a crowd of locals and city guests. Cap'n Jake jokes about parsons, Mrs Hutchins causes a scene, and the ceremony goes ahead as tensions flare over pay and propriety. After blessings, dinner and gossip spill into a tense farewell amid laughter and criticism.
Curio column gleans jokes and anecdotes from Washington to New Haven. It notes a Knight Templar bearing a white feather yet crossing himself with forgiveness, while other quips mock blue laws and fish-killing schemes.
A survey of science and industry items mentions Ansonia Connecticut’s large electro plating plant, a new tir rup safety device, pine needle gathering in Washington Territory, Virginia’s rising prosperity from Northern investment, a stone cutting machine revolutionizing granite work, and artificial ivory from celluloid. It also notes Penn’s riverfront considerations, nickel abundance, vanadium discoveries in Arizona, an Egyptian heliography experiment signaling from pyramids to Alexandria, a glossograph shorthand machine, and a Lapland movement enhancing women in public roles.
The Coroner's jury found that an insane prisoner at Wethersfield died after being gagged and restrained in a strait jacket. Testimony described several gag methods and that the gag strap was tightened the night before his death, with the verdict citing convulsions and signs of strangulation.
The Paris sewers are described as mainly a curiosity for British and American visitors, who enjoy boat rides and bright vaults while ignoring the nagging odors from surface waste. The piece argues Paris drains only in name, contrasts it with London’s low death-rate, and notes London's real drainage and slum pressures.
A digest of quirky incidents and notable notes. court rulings on passenger removal, a water-filled can explosion near Chattanooga injuring a boy, repeated pardons of Frederico C. Blodgett in Spencer, Mass., an emerald owned by Anns Louise Cary valued at 50 000, a Winnipeg milk supply puzzle solving via chalk lime salt and Red River water, a Vienna balloon accident dragging the craft into a yard and injuring several bystanders.
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