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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1889
Page
5
Poem-like reflection contrasts sunny days now gone with dreary present weather. The speaker laments past delights that fade from sight yet notes enduring bonds and shared pain. A refrain speaks of two souls bound, preferring present fidelity to vanished sunshine with the beloved.
Phebe renounces her elopement plan with Alfred Esmond after family meddling and letters reveal his true intent. She returns to Sam Tibba, and her Grandmother Tibbs burns the letters, blessing the match. Phebe accepts a May wedding with Sam as the old couple watches.
President Holmes began running smoking cars during peak hours but women riders objected to the label and to seeing men smoke. Conductors warned them, but they refused and shouted at smokers. The movement to “smoke out” the women threatens to render the cars ineffective. A separate note reports Chinese incendiaries tied to a Pekin temple fire as authorities arrest suspects.
A speaker urges steadfast duty and honest conscience amid opposition. An Indiana Presbyterian synod meeting adopts a sensible resolution backing abolition of liquor traffic while supporting measures to lessen current evils.
An advertisement history notes Hood's Sarsaparilla in Lowell Massachusetts selling well for ten years and gaining consumer satisfaction from impure blood. It mentions Chicago World’s Fair towers and a Chicago ascent, profits and dividends, plus several patent medicines and tonics with prices and claims to health benefits.
Misa Proctor of Lima Ohio announces a patent on a process claiming 10000 cubic feet of illuminating gas can be extracted from a barrel of Lima oil. The notice also urges readers to consider subscribing to the paper and highlights multiple departments as valuable reading material. Itch mango scratches are claimed cured in 80 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion available from J E and F A Powell drugs Henry II.
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