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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1894
Page
5
The Beary Republican notes that General Doe is appointed assistant secretary of war and argues his former legal associate Col Roe should not be left out. It comments on political patronage and the need to award capable individuals.
Gov. Rien of Michigan grants a pardon to a woman from a good family who confessed to two years of stealing, saying kleptomania is a recognized condition. She claimed she did not need or use the items and acted on irresistible impulse. The piece also surveys international affairs and notable deaths in the Harrison administration.
Poetic excerpt describes a haunted home with twilight shadows and creeping death as a moral consequence. Amy Dawson, in Chambers' Journal, uses imagery of fireside scenes and night to reflect a spiritual judgment on sin.
In western Massachusetts near New Ashford a rainstorm drives two travelers onto a farm porch. A young woman and her unconscious injured companion Dave receive help from a passerby who ties a bleeding leg with improvised bandages while a worried mother faints nearby. Harvey retrieves a doctor as the storm rages.
In a muddy house scene Harvey and a doctor tend a wounded farmer's mother and write a comforting note for three weeks on a rural farm. The trio leave the Arcadian life for Pittafield as Clemmie teaches farming and a turquoise ring reappears on a cigarette case prompting a promise to return it and delay the pastoral play.
Mr. Graham recalls Jane Clermont and Mary Shelley's appeal to women describing Shelley as pure and noble seeking higher ideals in women. The talk notes his fearless nature and strength, calling him the finest walker of the Byron Shelley circle and capable of tiring others. The source cites Nineteenth Century.
An English pupil from Cardiff board School sent a wood carving to the Recreative Evening Schools exhibition in London. He won second prize and sold his piece to Princess Louise. A framer noted the work was lithographed abroad by a foreign firm, prompting Royal patronage concerns.
The article describes claims of an vast underground lake beneath Nebraska Kansas and Indian Territory with tide wells in Polk Butler and Colfax counties where air roars and ebbs, dating the feature to mysterious tides and winds. It notes a national reputation meteorologist and a campaign scene in Old Orchard Maine with Congressman Reed of Maine. It mentions Mar county attendees Mrs Horatio Campbell Sparland and Mrs Julius St Adkinson Henry praising Reed.
The sugar trust is said to gain greatly from a 40 percent tariff on sugar after importing vast undisguised quantities. Adolf Havemeyer, president of the sugar trust, is noted for contributing to the Democratic national campaign fund. Also promoted are remedies and humorous clippings from various papers.
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