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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1889
Page
8
A poemlike meditation contrasts seagulls drawn to a lighthouse on Bedloe's Island with a statue of Liberty. It mourns birds' deaths against the lantern and extols endurance, light, and liberty battling oppression as a beacon on the shoreline.
Christine Illerton rejects Ralph Gresham, choosing engagement to Arthur Gower after revealing her past vows to Clara Volney. In the garden scene she asserts commitment, then confides to Clara that she will marry Arthur, while Clara processes the revelation and Christine's restraint.
Christine Illerton confronts Clara Volney over Arthur Gower’s love while Clara hides heartbreak after a near drowning at The Crag. Christine mistreats Clara in pursuit of control, but a late-night reunion reveals Christine’s chance at happiness with Ralph Gresham, ending with a hopeful future.
Chapter III describes a tense pause before destruction with life and nature alike stilled by impending wreck and ruin, as Christine Iller confronts an unsettling calm in the scene.
In a tense scene at The Crag, Christine confronts Arthur Gower and Miss Nerton about a failed union arranged by families. Clara Volney and Miss Illerton reveal truth, and Christine discards the betrothal token by throwing the ring into the river, leaving a lonely widow behind after a tumultuous period before a planned marriage.
A Washington telegraph office tale recounts a girl who asks Samuel Morse how long to send a note to Baltimore. He says one second but she pleads to rush the message to her lover William, imagining instant travel, then tears up the note and leaves heartbroken, thinking the telegraph cannot move her heart.
A portrait of Helen Densmore formerly Helen Barnard in New York and Washington circles. Notes her press gallery tenure, role in emigrant treatment inquiries, ascent to medicine, and vegetarian habits. Ends with reflections on judging public figures by flaws over virtues.
Chicago defeats Cleveland after a 15 inning marathon tied at 4 in the ninth and again in the thirteenth. Anson van Haltren and Pfeffer lead the Chicago rally amid 4,000 fans as Duffy, McKean, Gilks and others star for Cleveland. Final dramatic slide gives Chicago the win.
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