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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1885
Page
8
Fragmentary verse reflects wartime duty and personal delay. The speaker laments prolonged pressures of fashion and leisure, and vows nobler effort. Death looms as a reminder to seek peaceful purpose and improve the race, while urging steady resolve toward future years.
Grace Lord learns her father’s papers are critical to his honor. During Chicago's great fire she disguises herself as a boy, retrieves the office keys and papers, endures a perilous escape across a burning city, and at last reunites with her grateful family.
Advice from Forest Forge and Farm extols planting apple trees on rough farms to yield ten to twenty five bushels per tree annually. It argues apples offer food value at ten cents per bushel versus grain, with mulching, wood ashes as fertilizer, and light cultivation enough for growth. Plant and have faith.
The guide urges rapid thorough drying without crushing. It advises using brown paper sheets in a napkin press with light initial pressure, then gradually increasing pressure as dampness recedes. A faster but more work intensive method shifts flowers daily into hot dry papers to accelerate drying.
A curious coincidence ties six houses planned at Millbury Junction Mass to land parcels that sit in Worcester Millbury and Grafton. The Boslin Globe notes the unusual municipal split for the project site.
Religious and educational notes discuss Baptists and mission members, a large donation to a Presbyterian seminary, and a survey on Central Europe schoolchildren. Additional items cover Tacoma church debt fundraising, opposition to longer summer vacations, Brooklyn public schools’ history, and the push for English study in schools with quotes from Huxley.
A collage of quips and jokes from the Whitehall Times Yonkers Statesman and other papers. Snatches include mischief about wealth temper and manners with puns about colors and theater roofs. A Dickens photo anecdote concludes the gag set.
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