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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IAHENRY] !! Free Press; Henry Co, IA; May 1, 1879
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:05:35 -0600


The Free Press
Mount Pleasant, Henry, Iowa
May 1, 1879

A new musical band have lately affected an organization in our city,
Shadel's Cornet, H.G. Shadel, leader. There are nine others of our young men
members, as follows: Mont. Palmer, Tom. Clark, Charlie R. Howard, Fred Freeman,
Elmer Brooks, Elmer Thompson, Robert Fuller, John Simmons, Fred. Morehous.
Together they make good music, as we were convinced of the other night, when our
part of town was favored with a serenade. Success to the new band.

Capt. Steele of Marion township, brought five young wolves to town on
Tuesday. He found them in his pasture near his residence about half a mile south
of Ebenezer chapel. We don't know exactly what the county paid him for them, but
presume he got enough to pay him well for his trouble besides saving himself and
neighbors from any further damage by these five at least.

Mark Gray, a young man about 23 years of age, who with the exception of a
slight interval has been for the past five years an employee of Younkers Bros,
Keokuk, on Wednesday night last at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, attempted to
assassinate Edwin Booth. He fired two shots from a revolver, neither of which
were successful. He was then arrested and is now held under $20,000 bail to
answer the charge. He is undoubtedly insane.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/


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