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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1882
Page
6
A light verse by Mrs. A. M. Diaz describes a playful scene where a mother invites only clean well behaved visitors to kiss a baby beneath the chin while a papa asserts ownership of that cheeky kissing spot.
Anne Bardulph works as a housekeeper for the ailing Madame Dorman in a grand house set among beech and pine. Two young men notice her striking look as Tony Dorman and the detective Louis D Razelly discuss love, loyalty, and a potential jewel theft. The detective reveals a bound book like a detective camera showing Bardulph’s portrait amid intrigue.
Mrs. Dorman’s missing jewels are recovered when a somnambulist mother is found to be the keeper. Anne Bardulph reveals she retrieved the diamonds and explains her ruse as a planned discovery. Louis D Razelly confesses doubts, while Anne declines marriage to pursue her detective career.
A Detroit wife rides to Chicago with her husband calling out to vainly alert nearby men to offer company. He teases about moral temptations while detailing impossible requests, asking for help with meals, books, and a hack, then bids farewell as no one speaks to the woman during the 300 mile trip.
Sunstroke begins with a pain in the head or dizziness and may lead to loss of consciousness and prostration. The remedy directs cooling the patient, loosening clothes, raising the head, applying wet cloths, turpentine to legs and feet, and giving weak whisky and water, while sending for a physician.
A passerby at East Greenwich’s Methodist Church recalls Ira Fletcher, a once‑familiar figure, as he sits on the steps and laments his fate. The note appears in the West Newark Sun column.
A review discusses early opium in China with references to poppy names and imperial cakes, then shifts to name identity law. It covers how Chinese poets praised poppies, medical uses and cautions, plus a Baltimore court note on true names, initials, spelling, and the public policy against name confusion.
Dr T C Osborn in the Medical Brief recounts a cook relief from a swollen cheek toothache after using compound tincture of benzoin packed into the cavity. He reports rapid relief for others and recommends the remedy, noting benzoin comes from Styrax benzoin and advising against confusing it with benzole benzine or petroleum products.
City records show 275000 residents with 45000 identifying as Chinese. The data highlights the city’s ethnic composition and Chinese community size within San Francisco.
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