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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1874
Page
3
A prose poem features a quiet garden scene with a mother and child, reflections on work, repose, and beauty. The piece contrasts labor and tenderness, ending with praise for innocent influence and family life, cited from Maurice Thompson in the New York Independent.
In Zapteys and Shelbyville, Miss Sabrina Clarkson aids neighbors while keeping toiling, unseen kindness. A long lost paper surfaces via Janie Parsons and Squire Henderson, uniting Maurice and Janie and clearing old suspicions as Sabrina aids a village wedding.
Take seven pounds of sound grapes on the stems pack them snugly in a stone jar without breaking. Wake a syrup of four pounds honey and one pint vinegar with cloves and cinnamon. Boil twenty minutes skim and pour while boiling hot over fruit and seal. They will keep for years and are exceedingly nice. Apples peaches and plums may be done the same way.
A Kansas woman tends supper, milks cows, feeds hogs, and splits kindling as her five sons and two daughters play croquet, illustrating rural domestic life and multitasking chores.
A narrator recounts assembling a progressive Democratic platform at Bascom's with Deckin Pogram Issaker Gavett and Capt. Mc Pelter. They draft resolutions rejecting old ideas, praising progress, and denouncing slavery while endorsing war memory and anti Kenyan rhetoric. The scene includes a brutal lynching and a push to modernize the party at the Cross Roads.
A Kansas weather anecdote notes a cautious forecast with a Native American elder suggesting variable weather next week. He remarks it may snow or be very hot and advises waiting to see.
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