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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1895
Page
3
The column lists residents and guests visiting Henry Yaeger in Metamora, callers from nearby towns, medical visits, pensions, and social events. It notes local moves, remodeling, crops sold at auction, club activities, church services, and community anecdotes from Henry and surrounding areas, with multiple names and dates.
The Young Ladies Sodality of St Marys church purchased a banner for their society. Geo Lubbe of Quincy, traveling salesman for Simmons Hardware Co, is seriously ill with a brain tumor. Local residents Mrs Mary Smith, Mrs Topping, Harry Reeder, Herbert A Mitchell, and others are mentioned with visits, moves, education plans at Greer College, and wedding news as St Marys church services and community events unfold.
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a permanent cure for scrofula with testimonials from thousands. Describes scrofula in neck glands sores and drainage and notes possible mucus membrane effects including catarrh and lung involvement. Claims faithful treatment purifies blood and restores vigor and health.
Joseph Schuster, brother of George Schuster and longtime Peoria resident, died in St Francis hospital at about age 68 after war service with the 44th Illinois Infantry. Jane Johnson, born 1823 in Washington County Pennsylvania, died October 6 1895 near Putnam Illinois aged 72. Both remembered as pillar neighbors with funeral rites held in Sacred Heart Church and Whitefield Center Church respectively.
The Woman's Club held its first regular meeting of the season at Mis Minnie Kline's home with about 25 in attendance. A new Science Department was added with Mrs Minnie Kline as chair, four new members were admitted, and papers on imagination growth habit and education were presented by members. Delegates Laura Kline Hildebrant and Potter head to the Peoria State federation meeting.
A quick moralizing vignette describes shoppers in a town tasting items in a grocery store. They sample sugar nuts cheese crackers apples and herring. Merchants endure a slim profit or a loss on these in store tastings before deciding what to buy.
A prairie schooner passed Cambridge last Saturday bound for La Prairie in Marshall county Ll. It carried a man wife and three children aged 3 14 years 5 months. They came from West Union Custer county Neb and said they are W. A. Predmore resident of Custer county 23 years. They left due to poor crops.
Regular meeting of Henry Illinois city council October 7 1895 approves bills and Treasurer's report. Ordinance 136 adopts a permanent grade and datum for streets sidewalks and sewers per engineer George F Wightman. Ordinance 137 regulates sidewalk widths tree planting and curb stone placement with penalties. Council also orders notice to J P Sparling to halt engine operation until fire precautions are met. Meeting adjourned.
Mrs H Snell, longtime millinery dealer in Herington, returns from St Louis with a large stock. She invites all ladies to Friday and Saturday event to view styles patterns and prices. Her experience and local reputation are pledged to attract shoppers and build ongoing sales.
An advertisement promotes Hill's Chloride of Gold tablets as a cure for husbands or sons addicted to liquor morphine or tobacco. It claims guaranteed results or money back and offers home delivery from Ohio Chemical Works Lima Ohio if local druggists do not stock them.
The notice advertises land sales with favorable terms and Rock Island Route excursion rates. It also reports the Subordinate Council No 23 of the Western Catholic Union electing officers including Henry Yuegor as president and Theodore Bickerman as vice-president.
W. VW. Bobbitt arrived in town Saturday with the elk’s antlers tied to his back. The two main prongs measured 43 and 45 inches, with smaller branches, and he asked ten dollars. John Heim is expected to purchase them.
An elderly Panama postmaster named Mark M. Woodson details a conversion from a lifelong rheumatic paralysis to walking upright after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He attributes a dramatic recovery to the pills after decades of crutches and pain, with corroboration by a local notary.
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