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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1883
Page
3
A mother warns Jennie about dangers on the bogs and the marsh as a girl follows a sunlit path hoping to reach home. The speaker recalls following the maiden and contemplates peril and temptation. The poem urges staying to the narrow path to keep daylight and safety.
A portrait of Adolphus Heintzlemann a frail Teutonic suitor at the New York Supreme Court whose long disorderly motions and legal documents reveal a once clever inventor driven by delusion. The piece also notes other court wanderers Mrs Mayfield Praying Patsey and a few eccentric figures lingering in City Hall Park.
In a St Nicholas excerpt, regimental raiding of sutlers is described as a summer and winter sport. Soldiers invite rival regiments to raid each other’s sutler tents, sever ropes, topple walls, and then vanish amid cheers. Officers sometimes joined or tolerated the pranks, viewing sutler charges as justification for the mischief.
A tally of events across Illinois includes a Tallula reunion for the 104th Infantry, WCTU district convention in Galena, and Western Catholic Union meeting in Alton with about four hundred delegates. Other items note church fires in Jacksonville, a Hillsboro rock-pile punishment plan, a Highland Park shooting death, Rockford fire fatal to a child, and multiple court, crime, and social notes from Morgan, Macon, Madison, and other counties.
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