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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1891
Page
3
A vast condensation lists fires in Animas Forks and Glendale mills, a collision on the Illinois Central near Milan sparking a forest fire, and other disasters. It notes bank liabilities, post office robbers, murders, hangings, arson, and federal inquiries, with broader economy and immigration data.
A sprawling 19th century news digest reports on army supply reforms and lavish losses from fires, wrecks, and floods across cities from New Orleans to Bowling Green. It notes bicycle race records in New York, gas fatalities in Terre Haute, and U S tariff trade highs while detailing disasters in Kentucky, Missouri, and Oklahoma, plus political shifts and international clashes.
Patrick Kitten a Chicago heavyweight boxer died at 28 from erysipelas and alcoholism. Thomas Rooney the oldest man in Michigan passed away at Fremont aged 109. GumpEROY WELLS Griffin United States consul to Sydney died in Louisville Kentucky at 50. Joan SHORTELL died at Little York aged 103 in an odd seed-related note.
Riots in Russia kill fifty and wound hundreds as refugees flee starvation. Cyclone destroys Trinity houses at Conneaut Ohio with no deaths. Four men die near Great Falls Montana from premature powder blast. five injured. Flywheel burst at Kimberly rolling mill injures five in Greenville Pennsylvania. Five killed in Soo road collision near Glenwood Minnesota with seven hurt. Mexico faces famine amid crop failure. Atlanta wedding announced for Hiram Lester aged 124 and Mrs Wesly 74. Clifton Distilling plant in Cincinnati destroyed by fire, $150,000 loss. Oshkosh resident Davin Carson dies aged 68. wife dies beside him. Teutonic breaks record Queenstown to New York in five days two hours three minutes. New York Court of Appeals invalidates Samuel J. Tilden will. $8,000,000 estate to seven heirs. Indiana bank depositor list attempt fails. Evansville fires burn large land areas. farmers lose homes. Explosion at United States Mince Supply Co in Cleveland destroys building. three young men die. Grandma Benson dies at 100 in Bridgeport. Munpeter Williamson sentenced to death confesses 1883 family murder near Centralia Illinois and another killing.
Weather fine for corn huskers. Eight drowned at the river last Sunday morning. Mrs Cornelis Tanquary visited sister in Sheffield. Mr and Mrs Charles Erakin attended Bethel preaching. Young people attended Steuben Baptist Church Sunday eve. Mrs William Sargent of Missouri plans a visit to Henry Sargent family. Aunt Rebecca Hasselton back visiting old friends in Saratoga. Minnie Tanquary attended Hoskins and McCully wedding. bride daughter of C W Hoskins. Henry Hoskins learns daughter Louis Conner of Nebraska ill. husband also sick with typhoid. Albert Kive from Peoria visiting mother and friends. Ed Hannum and Thomas Duke on streets. Doc D’s house hearing four hammers. Albert C. flew to the Ridge last Saturday night. Farmers busy with crop. wagons heard in all directions. Malone and Green Hamilton shipped hogs to Chicago. Frank Marshall from Sparland spent two weeks with kin. Osker Erskins shipped hogs to Chicago. market reported good. Buckshot missing since Phil left Saratoga. no word from surrounding country.
A string of brief items reports residents' activities from LA ROSE I T Gulick painting a house to Fred Zilm building a barn. Others move, travel, or tend homes. a stove accident injures a baby. visits from Samuel Rogera and O P Wolcott praise Illinois. crops and land prospects discussed. an English Spavin Liniment ad promotes blemish cure with local druggists Powell in Heary Ill nearby.
Minnie Taliaferro Putnam yields friends in Peoria while Dwight Morgan is sick under Dr Stipp 19. Mrs Engleheart of Walnut Bureau Jenunty 18 visits with her sister Mrs Johnson. Mrs McCormick visited Chicago and her son Mike an operator. Elder M McCurdy gave a discourse on The Transfiguration at the Christian church. Elder J E Parker missed a grandmother's funeral due to railway connections. Young people plan Halloween in secret. Allison Pettit and bride moved to the Soper house. Soper has vacated for J R Veach. Mrs H M Duncan departed from Monica to Roanoke on Santa Fe. O P Carroll builds a new office and scales shed with covering. J A Lambert supervised mason work. Abe Dawson carpenter. Grandma Parker laid to rest Sunday afternoon. funeral by Elder Shaw and Rey Wooley ME. Relatives Samuel Parker O M McMcCurdy Mamie Parker attend.
Rebecca Wilkinson of Brownsvalley Ind reports three years of distress from nervousness indigestion and stomach weakness then praises South American Nervine as a miracle remedy after trial bottles costing 15 cents each. The piece also notes a Jacksonville YMCA visit to the Institution for the Blind with praise for blind pupils and a child prodigy named Theo Heath of Henry who correctly identifies dates and the August 1891 calendar.
The article warns heart disease as the leading cause of sudden death and outlines symptoms such as short breath pain and irregular pulse. It promotes Dr Miles' New Heart Cure and Restorative Nervine from Powell drug store, noting they contain no opiates and claim broad cures. It mentions farmers delaying sowing awaiting rain and possible frost impact on husking corn.
Readers recall Pushmataba Harris son of J. R. Harris visiting his uncle George Harris. While playing at his Neosho Missouri home he struck a tree and fractured the left arm in two places below the elbow. A surgeon was summoned and recovery aids are at work.
The article touts Al phonso Hempfing of Butler Indiana claiming his son recovered from 81 Vitus dance after Dr Miles great Restorative Nervine. It also notes Mrs J R Miller of Valparaiso and J D Taylor of Logansport Indiana gaining 20 pounds each from taking it. Miall A Gardner of Vistula Indiana allegedly recovered from 40 to 50 daily convulsions and related ailments with one bottle. Free trials and a marvels book are offered at J B F A Powell's drug store with a guarantee of the remedy.
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Retired physician claims a vegetable remedy can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma throat and lung diseases and nervous debility. He offers free delivery of the recipe in German French or English by mail to all who request it with a stamped reply and paper name. Address William Noyes 820 Powers Block Rochester New York.
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