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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1883
Page
3
The poem mourns J Smith a long time club member since 1864 who excelled as an umpire and left-field hitter. It praises his modest temper red hair and sunburned face and notes his death after heartache while recalling his playful quirks and love for baseball. The piece ends with a burial and a heavenly call from the Burlington Hawkeye.
A narrative centers on Frank Gaskell a thirty year old sewer contractor in Erie overseeing a widening Poplar Street excavation. The scene contrasts dawns beauty with hard labor as Gaskell surveys the deep trench, directs workers, and tests the wooden boarding for safety while a city wakes around him.
Frank Gaskell is trapped up to his neck in a sunken sewer cutting on Poplar Street after a wall face gives way and sand floods the shaft. Laborers race to shore as rescuers form a plan to reach him from the eastern wall while Jim Mahaffey and others escape.
In W- a former county judge ran a store and mill boasting sharp bargains. A witty man claimed he cheated the judge by returning and re selling a pine log twenty seven times, shrinking it with wear until it became ten feet long, then using it to cheat the judge of his wagon and money. The crowd roared as the judge realized he had been outsmarted. The Plowman.
Miss Fuller a bright young school ma’am in Grand Marais conducts a shop and learns to shoot. She agrees to deer hunt with Mike Brazel, boards there, and uses a Winchester. A buck is shot from a boat at night, the shot described as accurate. The woman pleads to die if she can capture a bear, a line she utters after the kill.
A recipe outlines a chocolate custard filling using five tablespoons grain chocolate five of sugar and one egg. If the mixture is dry, moisten with milk then cook over boiling water until it bubbles, creating a rich filling for cake.
At the Springfield session of the State Board of Equalization on the 14th the State Auditor presented the assessment statement from local county assessors for the year 1883. The data outlines property valuations used for tax purposes across counties.
Attorney General McCartney explains that the 1883 Illinois law bans gambling near fairs and on fairgrounds. Games of skill may be allowed if no betting occurs, but premiums tied to speed or skill are allowed only under strict limits. Penalties apply to fair officers permitting betting. losses on permitted games can lead to judgments against fairgrounds.
Mrs. Gertrude Allen wife of Rev A B Allen pastor at Grace Episcopal Church Taylor Ridge drowned in a creek after a bout of mental depression. A youth Greer from Shawnee town died after a horse accident in Phillipstown White County. John Price showman died after falling from a tree at New Burnside Johnson County. Chicago packers slaughtered 1,263,000 hogs since March 1 vs 1,228,000 last year. E Maunder Morris Grundy County druggist found dead from drink and malnutrition.
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