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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1872
Page
6
A country girl recalls a ragged classmate from fifteen years ago by Overprock. Their contrast between born status and kindness blossoms into enduring memory and later marriage. The verse traces social scorn, rekindled affection, and a lifelong bond.
A fragment from the Cleveland Plaindealer prints The Diary of an Unhappy Man. The entry traces a man’s misfortunes at home and with door-to-door salesmen, boot pain, and relentless insistent agents until he contemplates suicide by canal. The piece blends humor with hardship and ends with the narrator’s planned death.
A Richmond Enquirer piece parodies a scale of wardrobe excess and social critique. It mocks extreme feminine fashions and vanity with a detailed list of costly garments and trimmings, then shifts to a satire on wealth and marriage markets at Saratoga, featuring character Gus and Miss D. enacting economical romance versus luxury.
A would be writer tests his composition on family without revealing authorship. His mother sleeps, sister groans, brother asks to stop, wife prompts “won't that do.” He realizes the work is his, folds his portfolio, regains his digestion, and becomes content. The anecdote suggests editors should use this remedy more.
A reflective verse fragment recalls June moonlit parting at a gate and a gulf between lovers. The speaker frets over unsatisfactory rhymes for month gulf and other phrases while describing a farewell, love, and a pupil of love's school who finds another.
A collage of jests and vignettes includes a toast to memory in pointed sentences, jokes about a baby likened to a wheat sheaf, and quips on women’s talk, babies, and social foibles. It recalls a Paris sewing study trip, a bank clerk turned defaulter, and a Boulogne duel with a wedding trip to the United States.
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