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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1901
Page
2
Real estate bargains advertised by a local Realty Firm highlight reduced prices, open houses, and financing terms. Listings emphasize residential properties, neighborhood locations, and potential investment opportunities with contact details for further information.
John Hartley lists city residences and two lots priced from 700 to 2500 dollars. Farm lands include 320 acres near Putnam and 575 acres in Steuben township at 10 000 dollars, with easy terms. Excursions occur first and third Tuesdays. Hartley sells Minnesota lands at ten to eighty dollars per acre.
The piece urges harsh action against anarchists and assassins and argues patriotic Americans favor strong government. It notes rail fare cuts to Buffalo, growing American industries, and vast western lands available, with emphasis on national security and repression of political foes.
F L Taylor of New Albany Bradford Co Pa recalls using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to complete a bicycle trip after sudden illness. He reports a subsequent dysentery recovery with one dose and praises the remedy sold at Dre Powell's City drug store.
Second letter from G M Locke recounts family history in Dover area New Hampshire including Isle of Shoale trips, the Locke homestead graveyard and farm details, a bachelor Jacob Darius Locke, and long, vivid notes on property, hay, barn costs, and sea fogs. Also mentions contemporaries Hobson Mitchell and G M Locke and a recent Magnolia and Sheldon correspondence, plus a Henry Illinois wedding noted by Cornell Journal and an ad for Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment.
A reflective piece from Springfield (Mags) on the exceptionally hot wet summer of 1901. It describes oppressive heat, storms, and lush late summer plant life including asters, rhexia, gentian, milkweeds, and vines. It cites Browne on human purpose and notes nature’s resilience beyond human sustenance, concluding with a civic note from the Springfield Republican.
A Machias widow, wife of General Burnham, faced pneumonia and death before morning, yet Dr King’s New Discovery saved her life previously and cured her consumption. The ad claims the medicine cures throat chest and lung diseases with trial bottles free at Dr Powell's City drug store.
A cleansing soothing and healing remedy is needed and Ely's Cream Balm fills the role. Priced at 50 cents in druggists and available by mail from Ely Brothers New York. The balm spreads in the nostrils, soothes the diseased membrane and a cold in the head vanishes quickly.
A playful historian tone recalls Nero and the burning of Rome at a boarding house table. The piece mixes whimsy with a journalist’s mock dialogue among clerks and a stenographer, evoking a late 19th century newspaper voice and its catalog of snippets.
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