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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1889
Page
6
May's blue celestial eyes glow with radiant light and kindness. Tad's brown eyes flash with bright warmth and curiosity. Maud's gray eyes seem calm yet wary and brave. Jessa's hazel eyes burn with love and temper. Pearl's black eyes hold distant light and genius. MOMENCE, 111.
A narrator recalls youth and romance as a girl’s mother and household tension complicate courtship. Aunt Susan aids the young missus in trapping a chicken thief while a note from the thief humorously asks to return his horse and stay in jail, ending with an uneasy memory of a smile from the girl.
A narrator recalls evenings with a mother playing Home Sweet Home while the daughter’s whereabouts vary. An attempted theft triggers a comical search by the household, ending with two men binding a thief and hauling him off in a springless wagon as the family deems themselves rid of a rascal.
A Paris cor respondent notes the fashion-driven art scene as Barye’s animal sculptures receive little public attention though many bronzes are praised as masterworks. He praises Barye for depicting animals accurately, cites limited funding, and contrasts American gilding with French neglect.
In a Detroit Free Press item two women in a dry goods store share a fashion chat. One recalls Mr Blank asking after the other from a visit a quarter century ago, noting she and her husband are not as comely now. The second recalls Tennyson's line about love, then the friends part.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes Cornell journalism graduates face a harder real world test. A year of study equips them for trial work in offices with modest pay, where skills determine advancement more than a diploma, and failure can end their newspaper careers quickly.
In a brief anecdote from Harper’s Bazar a speaker asks about cannel coal price. The book-keeper notes Elkins has not paid his bill and the price rises from 18 to 24 dollars.
On the Southern overland train at Lathrop California Deputy United States Marshal David Nagle shot Judge David S Terry after Terry struck Justice Stephen J Field in the dining room. Field escaped to Oakland while Nagle was taken to Stockton for inquest. Terry died at the scene. Nagle, praised as a brave officer, faces arrest under a Field protection order.
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