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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1883
Page
3
A railway town echoing with whistles and names of lovers as engineers, stokers, and residents recall sweethearts and weddings. Each whistle summons a memory from Nell to Lulu, Jane to Jo, across a day of trains, posts, and affectionate calls.
In a country inn in Switzerland, geology professor James Hill reunites with childhood friend Tom Byrne and his artist sister Mabel Byrne. Growing affection turns to love as Hill abandons his timidity to woo Mabel amid alpine vistas and shared passions in art and science.
A slim, yellow-haired man enters a fashionable shop and orders an astonishing array of firearms and blades, from self cocking six shooters to cannons, daggers, swords, Turkish cimeters, claymores, rifles with bayonets, harpoons, spears, and even grenades. He plans to take the order to a hotel COD and says he is going to Texas to start a paper.
George Alfred Townsend writes The Entailed Hat accepted by Harpers. Spurgeon has two twin Baptist sons. Will Carleton pens a mortgage poem. Bartholomew Tarney turns 100, walks three miles in Bath, New York. Maud Banks, daughter of General Banks, debuts as elocutionist after European studies. W D Howells, 46, avoids society. proofs frighten printers. Walker, a Roman Catholic lawyer-judge, married to a white wife in Charlestown. Dr Mary Walker to receive 2000 from late Massachusetts donor. John Morley capital issue sparks critique. Justice Gray rode 300 miles by horseback this summer. Julius Nathan changes name to Julius Newton to avoid confusion with Nathan family.
A collage of witty quips and scenes from older papers. Jests about cooks, coats, and pools mix with travel tales, misplaced eloquence, and a mock sermon on the performing engineer. The piece surveys bustling towns along rail lines and the new midwestern social scene.
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