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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1882
Page
3
An aching speaker asks for a simple poem to soothe a restless evening. The request seeks humble, heartfelt verse from a poet who speaks of labor, quiet joys, and inner peace rather than grandmasters. The poem ends with attribution to Longfellow.
Rene faces pressure from her family and a professor to wed Prof. Appleton. Tom Nelson, loyal and earnest, loves Rene and resists the match while Rene rejects the professor’s advances amid social expectations and a looming engagement.
Doctor Alexander forbids marriage to Prof Appleton after a dramatic wardrobe misstep at a party reveals the professor's fire red suit as pearl gray. The shock leads to color blindness tests, a ruined engagement, and eventual marriage of Rene to Tom Nelson at Christmas.
The tale of Captain Fred Wording aboard the schooner John recounts a gain from a cargo shortfall after letting Gulf Stream heat swell corn and sharing a $500 overplus with a consignee. Illinois items follow with robberies, livestock counts, rail sabotage, deaths, and notable local notices from Decatur to Springfield.
A collage of misc items notes West Virginia’s nail production, Longfellow MSS custody, a Bremen post office visit to New York, a dangerous locomotive water spray, and varied old gossip. Also mentions a Kentucky ex officio and a Hastings apprentice walking eighteen miles daily for work.
A Memphis man donates 40000 worth of books and 22000 worth of oil paintings to a public library. In Brooklyn, would be heirs contest a will after the testator compared Peter Cooper to Jesus Christ.
The record chronicles staggered attendance and adjournments in the Illinois Senate and House from the start of the session through July 7. It notes quorums, canal cession resolutions, canal bill reporting, appropriation measures, criminal code revisions, and proposed court commissions under discussion. Specific actions include bills on the Illinois and Michigan Canal, special session expenses, State Normal Institute funding, and a pardon resolution for Bob Ford.
The Philadelphia Times notes Princess Helena of Waldeck faces another setback as her betrothed Prince Leopold shows concerning health symptoms likened to epilepsy. The couple’s marriage reparations are suspended and the ceremony delayed indefinitely amid questions about Leopold’s fitness and readiness for wedlock.
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