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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1889
Page
4
The Henry Republican issue shows postal designation Granny Bury Burron and lists entry at the Henry Illinois post office as Second Class Matter dated Thursday October 24 1889.
Correspondent reports a summer of insect invasions in New York and neighboring areas, with pests swelling across homes and hotels. The piece also covers a fraudulent divorce case and political criticism, noting investigations, resignations, and public sentiment amid a busy civic scene.
An elderly resident Jas Wilson of Allen Springe Ir claims long experience with medicines but praises Stag Chamberlain's Cholera and Cholera Remedy as the best he has tried. He asserts it fully meets all claims and recommends it. Sold by J. W. Nicce in Im.
Retired East India Missionary backed physician claims a simple vegetable remedy can cure Consumption Bronchitis Catarrh Asthma and nervous debility. He offers to mail the full recipe and usage instructions in German French or English to any requester with a stamped reply to W A Noyes 149 Powers Block Rochester NY.
Mrs Helen Gouger of Lafayette says Baptist ministers and laymen urged actions against liquor traffic. Resolutions urged church prayers to suppress drinking. She cites a deacon’s forty years of temperance work and urges filtering whisky voting members to curb political combines backing licens ed liquor. G. M Locke.
Town report notes Kemp's Balsam claims to ease coughs throat asthma bronchitis and consumption with trial bottles offered by druggists. Large bottles priced at 50 cents and 1 dollar and a promise of guaranteed relief.
A collage of brief items appears including economic aphorisms on horse mating and tree maturity, a Kalamazoo girl’s gum chewing mishap, a prison dress code change granting gray suits after six months, social commentary on a Persian minister, a Jerrold loan joke, Chicago private cars compared to New York yachts, a mythological baby name debate ending with Aurora, and Rev T DeWitt Talmage’s tribute to Congressman Cox noting his life-saving service and character.
Calcutta Gazette reports on Kafir courtship rituals where a man informs his family, seeks consent from the woman’s parents, and uses two female negotiators to win acceptance. The woman may be coerced by force if needed. the practice emphasizes male privilege and harsh treatment of the wife.
Readers claim Electric Bitters cures liver and kidney diseases removes pimples boils and salt rheum purges malaria and fevers and relieves headache constipation and indigestion. Price 60 cents and 1 per bottle at Powell's drug store.
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