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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1876
Page
8
Reads like a bustling classified weekly page with ads for stores and goods, lectures and events, travels, personal notices, and school openings. Mentions Miss Mattie L. Raymond visiting Princeton, trips by O. R. J. & P. R.R. tours, farm equipment and groceries, and a public school year opening with growing attendance.
Pool and Jones tout long standing sales rooms with ever lower prices on men's goods and woolen stock as they showcase southern districts. A Highland field social marks the wedding of Horace Spencer and family guests include Rev B Edmiston and relatives across the Burt and Mott families.
Henry plans to display the finest dry goods and footwear by week’s end in New York market. Despite a low market mood he will keep prices low and offer updated styles. An invitation to preview the upcoming spring merchandise is extended.
Announcements list sermons at Sugar Grove school house and Presbyterian church along with a KeWanee district meeting. Political caucuses target Grant opponents in Saratoga and local voters to select delegates for the county convention at Lacon. Leavitt Swiss bell ringers promise one evening of entertainment at the Christian church with admission 50 cents.
Boemus tours the northern Hannepin woodland home of A. T. Purviance county clerk, praising a cultivated grove along the Lilpols river with rustic paths, gates, gardens, and native and exotic plants. The piece notes Purviance's effort to preserve native woods and showcase fossil collections gathered in Putnam County. The Henry boys defeated the Oxbow boys in baseball, one to count.
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