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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1883
Page
4
A ten year old girl stands beside a dangerous iron road and waves her apron to signal two speeding trains. The brakeman and fireman notice the warning and slow the engines saving hundreds. The girl vanishes before recognition, hailed as a guardian angel in old times.
Sandle Macpherson recalls Thomas Carlyle confessing how he prized his opinion, revealing their boyhood friendship in Glasgow. Carlyle recounts Sandie’s early brilliance as a seminary pupil, high school dux, and his impact on the writer’s career and self image.
A memoir excerpt traces Thomas Carlyle’s envy and lifelong conflict with Sandie Macpherson, a neat Glasgow shopkeeper who outpaced him academically and later became his scornful conscience. Carlyle recalls school days, college, a failed early work, and a rector speech haunted by Sandie’s quiet judgment.
The physician notes from his long career suggest that at least a third of patient illnesses were imaginary. He avoided crushing patients by revealing the truth, as uncovering illness often caused genuine sickness and loss of life interest. He observed that weaker individuals tended to live longer than robust ones.
A clipped note reflects on vanished men and how friends search rivers and weigh murder claims only after tallying debts and fortunes, recalling a Detroit Post sentiment on investigative motive and social response.
Readers favor lemon juice over vinegar when enjoying raw oysters. The note highlights citrus as the preferred condiment, shaping tasting habits and etiquette among oyster enthusiasts.
A collage of quips and snippets from early newspapers includes a humorous note on a grammar school term for a strict teacher, a traveler stunned by a fresh railway turnover, a barbed exchange about luck and chance, a trombone mishap blamed on missing teeth, and a nurse’s water thermometer lesson alongside a man who shoots his bearskin coat by mistake.
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