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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1885
Page
3
Time of Publication shows Thursdays with rates for one inch ads and weekly, biweekly, and monthly options. Obituaries births marriages and deaths priced per line with display and classified sections offered by A Team Printing promising fast presses and high quality work with abroad orders accepted.
The text lists several lodges with meeting nights and times, including A-F. & A. Meare Lodge No. 119 meeting Tuesday evenings at 7 o’clock, Marshall Lodge No. 63 meeting Wednesday at 7:45, Marshall Encampment No. 35 meeting first Friday of the month at 7, Clayton Lodge No. 312 Sparland meeting Monday at 7:45, and other fraternal groups with schedules and venues. It invites visiting brethren to join.
A M Pool and Assurance Agency offers long term loans at fair rates with real estate and life Prax and Lirx Insurance from leading companies at bottom rates. Office one door west of The Republican building. Potter attorney at law rooms over The Republican office Second Street NE corner of Public Square. Perley attorney at law and notary public Edward Street Henry.
Read as printed, this 12 page edition from Marshall County includes the weekly county news and notices. It reflects local affairs, advertisements and period features typical of a late 19th century Republican newspaper.
The narrator recalls moving to Bryan Neck church in 1844 with a salary of 800 dollars, describing predecessors, parsonage life, and the shift from Darien to Bryan. He mentions stage routes to Savannah, Hart the driver, and siblings in the Shanghai family, with broader notes on Roswell King, Darien commerce, and the Ogeechee tolls.
The article notes castor oil as a leather dresser and formerly a remedy for child stomach disorders, now replaced by Brown's Iron Bitters. It praises Brown's Bitters for stomach toning and strength. It also reports Charles F. Hitchcock earning the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite 83d degree in Boston with 59 candidates statewide and mentions James Bannister as the other 88-degree holder in Peoria.
A Cleveland reader testifies that Red Star Cough Care is the best cough and cold remedy he has used and highlights its non narcotic formula. The column also recalls a Mendota hotel mud turtle anecdote and a Saybrook murder involving two doctors, with a coroner's verdict of willful murder.
An old trade advertisement touts Mishler's Herb Bitters with the motto Nil desperandum and Hope as an anchor. The emblem brags of cures for asthma rheumatism kidney and liver troubles bronchitis headaches and related ailments in hopeful testimonials.
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