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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1889
Page
6
A London report states that women in England exceed men by 3,000,000. The article notes social and economic implications of this gender gap across the country.
A Washingtonian close to the scene says Cabinet Secretary Tracy will be most popular. A two headed snake recently killed near Santa Cruz California by John Dennet. Both heads were perfect and fully developed.
Archdeacon Puinport becomes senior clergyman of the Church of England. Born in 1791 and graduating in 1812, he is the father in law to the Dean of Westminster.
A case featuring representations of every U S President in meerschaum is completed and will be sent to the Paris Exhibition.
A lighthearted note questions a supposed link between tobacco chewing and typhoid fever, suggesting the claim may be more a matter of medical curiosity or tobacco industry influence. The piece muses on England’s Samoa stance and jestingly likens John Bull and Uncle Sam, with Bismarck puzzled by the situation.
A mechanical paper warns that mixing saw dust with flour or starch used to cover steam and hot air pipes creates a highly combustible material. The note emphasizes the danger of ignition and recommends safer insulation practices.
Last year North Carolina shipped twenty three car loads of dried black berries to wine merchants in Cincinnati and Chicago. You may think they went into blackberry pies, but they didn't.
The three James brothers of Hull Mass are noted life-savers. Captain Albertus James dies after a career highlighted by saving a whole family from drowning at age over seventy. The report also notes demographic shifts in Mississippi and quirky presidential family prayers and a local Astoria doctor’s election baby gender observation.
A superstition holds that a new rich strike appears every ten years. Past records point to 1849 California, 1859 Pike's Peak, 1869 Nevada, 1879 Leadville. Some Southern California boomers claim 1889 may yield another bonanza.
Burts are excrescences that form on walnut rosewood mahogany oak and ash trees. They weigh from 1000 to 6000 pounds with the largest from Persia and Circassia. In rough price they cost 15 to 40 cents a pound.
In PortTLanpD Maine an unusually high number of Odd Fellows lodges compare with the town’s population, suggesting a strong fraternal presence relative to size.
In Seattle, one quarter of citizens over twenty one belong to the local lodge order with seven lodges holding a combined fund of 149615.74. Unity Lodge leads with 34430 in treasury. The Seattle Manufacturing Company prepares a flawless pine board for Paris Exposition while Paine Lumber of Oshkosh plans a similar 36 inch wide board. A new book on Americanisms defines terms like Bibibles for drinkables and skulduggery among others.
A subscriber warns against investing in suburban Colorado City lots due to costly fraud by unscrupulous dealers. A Doupugur inventor patents an electric burglar detector with cameras and a tell tale wire to reveal intruders. Berlin Old Maids Club members once fined by marriage rules paid 28 000 marks, split between a hospital and a solitary member.
In Ophir mine remnants at Virginia City Nevada miners found a huge fungal growth filling passages. Foot-wall specimens raised stones up to 150 pounds and fungi reached heights of over three feet. Some arms resembled hair and others hung from the roof like serpents. Heaviest growth appeared in the darkest sections.
The New York Sun notes savages seldom name vast lands, naming only familiar parts. Many large Pacific islands lack native names, and Africa has no common tribal name. Explorers often retained native names, but Cook gave English names to major discoveries when no alternatives existed.
Bill Nye observes Chicago stock yards and Armour works with irony and humor. He contrasts Eastern refinement with Western bluntness, notes the river, hogs, and profits, and voices the tension between urban pride and frontier practicality in a lively, period voice.
Noble M. Everhart describes the death's head moth seen in Europe before the French Revolution. It harms bee hives by stealing honey, builds wax walls, and has a long tongue to reach deep flower corollas. The caterpillar is greenish yellow with black spots. The Madagascar variety boasts a nine inch tongue.
The article surveys English poets from Chaucer to Shelley and Emerson to Keats, praising Shakespeare as preeminent while noting shifts in fame and influence. It compares Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Poe, Longfellow, Gray, Pope, Dryden, and Milton, predicting an American Shakespeare will arrive in time.
Comedian William H. Crane recalls a Pittsburgh encounter with a beggar who asked for fifteen cents to buy liquor. Crane learns trust is earned, then contrasts with Moody the revivalist in Chicago who faced a skeptical elder at Buck and Rayner’s, prompting a sharp remark about reform.
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