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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1895
Page
3
October 3 1895 counts feature a long village column with scattered notes from Henry Iowa Putnam County and nearby areas. Mentions include residents visiting relatives in Iowa Chicago Philadelphia and St Paul alongside farm updates church events and local commerce.
Mrs Isaac Doty of Bosworth Missouri visited her sisters Mrs Frank Bush and Mrs Otto Zierline in Tiskilwa and paused in Peoria. She reports Mr Zierline weak from hemorrhage and her husband an invalid, while she remains healthy and content on a farm 41 miles from town with fruit surplus.
A German speaker jokes with his dog about daily routine and fate, then shifts to a school message urging parents to insist on daily attendance and punctuality. The piece ends noting the habit will shape character and future success.
An advertisement from Cambridge Illinois promotes Ballard's Snow Liniment as a cure for rheumatism and various injuries. It cites Chas Handley of Kewanee and Mrs Hamilton of Cambridge as users and urges readers to try the product, noting it is sold at Dr Powell's. The piece also includes marketing tips about persistent newspaper advertising.
You can save from two to five dollars per acre by buying from us. We know where the bargains are and how to get them. J B Tuourson & Sons, Evening Agents. Corl & Price, K Lacon, escrow. Dr Price's Cream Baking Powder awarded Gold Medal Midwinter Fair, San Francisco.
The Tele graph Grange held its third annual fair on September 28 in the hall with displays of grain and fruit. Mrs Ella Tremain and Mrs Addie Brokaw crafted grain mottos, and Albert McKeon’s peaches highlighted Illinois fruit. Prizes covered fruits vegetables flowers and relics, including an old bottle from St Mary's church and a century-old dish, with the mammoth pumpkin bought by Mr Gill Clark.
A 27 year old girl writes the Atchison Globe about marriage pressures and lacking means to support herself. She seeks defense and a path to independence, noting she would prefer work to sustain a home. She argues parents and society bear responsibility for women lacking trades.
Four notable remedies achieve phenomenal sale with guarantees. Dr King's New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds Electric Bi for liver stomach and kidneys Bucklen's Arnica Salve claims world best and Dr King's New Life Pills a perfect pill All guaranteed to do what claimed Seller Dr Powell's drug store
A farmer on Rock river mixed overripe muskmelons and cantaloupes into a hogshed ferment that formed a strong must and was poured into a beer keg. The gas pressure burst the valve, he drank a glass, and then wrote poetry on the silver question before rushing outdoors and being helped by friends.
During autumn 1895 the Litchfield Carrollton and Western Railway offers excursion tickets at reduced rates for events in St Louis from Sept 4 to Oct 19 at the Exposition and Music Hall, Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta from Sept 18 to Dec 31, and the St Louis fair in October. For details, contact a C P & St L agent or W W Kent, General Passenger Agent Spring Field 411.
In San Francisco Lillie Bayer, one of several claimants to be Senator James G Fair’s widow, asserts she married the senator in 1892 and that a son exists. She says she has papers proving her claims and that a ranch deed was given to her, while detailing a failed $60,000 offer to surrender documents and the boy’s future. She faces embezzlement conviction and blames others for her troubles.
Washington reports quote Minister Dupuy de Lome saying the United States will confiscate arms found on detained vessels linked to Cuba filibustering. Attorney General Harmon says there is no change in policy toward Cuban insurgents. Courts have ruled in favor of both the government and the accused in these seizure cases.
The American Line steamer St. Louis under Captain RandIe left New York Sept 25 for Southampton, cleared Sandy Hook at 12 49 pm, passed the Needles at 7 36 am, and completed the voyage in 6 days 13 hours 26 minutes, beating her prior eastward record by 4 hours 38 minutes.
Worcester Mass October 2 The Democratic state convention began with John W Corcoran of Boston as temporary chair Josiah Quincy was greeted as permanent chair Quincy delivered a strong speech praising President Cleveland and tariff revision Williams of Dedham was nominated for governor The Republican subscription urged
A Texas Christian Advocate investigation reports H E Spaulding of Longview cured after eight years of severe sciatic rheumatism. Spaulding credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Dr C H Stansbury affirms the dramatic recovery and notes prior failed treatments at Wet Springs.
The Advance weekly announces growing circulation and richer content for the coming year. Features include Sunday-school lessons by Peloubet Humphrey and others, prayer meeting notes by Bushnell and Temple, and a new Maud Brayton serial by Geo Huntington.
Regular yearly rate set at 32. New subscribers receive paper from now until January 1 1897 and, upon paying $1.60 to either option, get postpaid a copy of the book How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon.
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