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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1883
Page
2
A reflective poem from Thomas Dunn English in the N. Ledger depicts a church bell as the hermit of the belfry. The bell speaks from above the town, tolling for births, weddings, deaths, fires, prayers, and time, watching the city’s ebb and flow.
A peasant girl Rika Bremer captivates Prince Eric of Sweden during a nut harvest visit. He gifts her a locket and woos despite class, urging marriage as royal fate changes after Gustavus’s death. Rika resists yet fate, love, and royal ambition shape a dramatic romance and soon a crowned queen.
Illinois shows 14549 manufacturing establishments the most after New York, with 144727 workers and 357,429,085 in wages for 1880. Major capital embeds in flour mills meat packing implements and foundries. Notable items include Macon County’s 116-year-old Robert Gibson, a Peoria farm-gear firm fire loss, and Bloomington drainage suit. Stories follow of a Carmi dog hero, a Decatur revival, a Moline inebriate death, Murphysboro hotel fire casualties, and Flora gunpowder blast. County and city budgetminded legislative moves fill the Illinois Legislature reports.
An Irish scene near Feenagh showed a farmer buried while about five hundred youths played football nearby, police dispersing them and mourners later jeered. Separately near London Derry an elderly woman’s body was found out of the coffin after a funeral, then reinterred the same day after the coffin was brought to the grave.
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