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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1872
Page
3
The week reports multiple fires and accidents across the country. A Cambridgeport child died in a dwelling blaze, and a North Adams cotton mill burned with heavy losses. Bridges, mines, and factories suffered damage or destruction, while rail and river infrastructure faced incidents and investigations. Political results and legal actions also appear amid the week’s broad coverage.
In the Senate on April 2 Mr Pratt urged a bill to fix the two per cent fund for Ohio Indiana and Illinois from land office proceeds and spoke in its favor then it went to the Judiciary Committee A message announced the House tabled the Seastead substitute on the tea and coffee duty Mr Morrill Vermont opposed moving it to the Finance Committee and the Senate discussed it before action was taken
Lake Michigan and the river sit about fifteen inches below typical levels while Mud Lake contributes its annual inflow and drives a current toward the lake. Some debris and propellers are grounded as the region endures an unusually extended low mood likely caused by dry weather since mid August. The piece notes uncertainty in scientific explanation and recalls a quip by Dr. Dyer about a tide in Lake Michigan.
What Next is a new magazine for boys and girls described as one of the prettiest and sprightliest juvenile publications. It targets readers curious about the world and offers a low price of 30 cents a year or 50 cents with a Prong Chrome free to each subscriber. Specify subscriptions or send stamps for a specimen to Publisher What Next 433 West Jackson Street Chicago.
The article explains a simple dew point method using Edson's hygrodesk to forecast frosts and protect orchards. It discusses smoke curtains and water boilers as frost prevention, cites Swiss and Peruvian examples, and notes the Signal Service's expanding role for agriculture. It also adds short notes on measuring corn, sulfur for fowls, and sowing clover seed.
A compact selection of household hints includes preventing ink mould with cloves, detecting adulterated coffee by sinking grounds in cold water, carbolic acid based remedies for ringworm and burns, frying fresh fish with corn flour, and a dessert of orange slices with dessicated coconut and sugar served with cream.
A new English invention provides a wood chopping and disintegrating system to turn logs into uniform breakings for paper. The device uses a fast spinning cast iron disk with a knife, inclined hoppers and rolls to produce half inch by one eighth inch particles ready for caustic soda processing in a horizontal boiler.
A Prague era Erfurt Augustine Monastery fire destroyed Luther cell and the room where his reform ideas formed. Luther Bible in marginal handwriting, Beck painting Deaths Dance, and other relics burned. Estimated pecuniary damage around 60 000 thalers.
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