03 Sep 1874
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1874
Page
1
Community items report school opening next Monday and a parade of local business notices. Articles mention book stores, groceries, furniture, sewing machine upgrades, and announcements of funerals, real estate, and farm sales around Henry and Whitefield areas.
Pool and Jones advertise a vast three floor inventory at low cash prices. They claim unmatched selection for men youth and boys clothing and boast bottom prices on all merchandise to attract patrons after a local rival’s misled promotion. A shopper frustrated by another store found relief at Pool & Jones New Cash Store.
The coming circus and menagerie tour will perform on Wednesday September 10 with a grand parade at o clock. The show promises two first class memories, trained animals including five elephants five Bengal tigers and many more, plus daring equestrian acts and grand tumbling for 500 each.
The record details men charged with liquor selling and other offenses. Wiliam O Leary of Sparland faced a jury trial resulting in a guilty verdict on one count. Geo Ball of Henry had counts quashed except one in which he pled guilty and paid $20 costs. Abraham L Hopp received a continuance on liquor license charges. Andrew McKeon seeks court aid to require CMM Bonham administrator to explain unpaid estate claims. Enoch Sawyer reports on Jacob Sawyer's conservatorship. Minnie Sanders is declared insane and ordered committed to a hospital. Creditors and estate matters are noted for Clark S Dey’s estate.
A local notice reports a sewing machine contest at Westeyn Doyle's residence in Saratoga township evaluating the Wilson and Singer machines. It questions trial results, notes sales agents S Fox and Daniel Morgan, and announces Morgan Brown & Morgan as a new firm in meals and general stock shipping with L C Brown joining John Morgan and John T Morgan.
A 1874 panorama of Barnum Co in a mammoth consolidation with Howe's Great London Circus Grecian Hippodrome Sanger's English Menagerie and Iroquois Indian troupe. Praise from Detroit Indianapolis and Detroit Free Press notes five educated elephants and a vast, spectacular exhibition traveling west with Prof. Ellingham lectures at Cooper Institute.
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