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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1888
Page
6
Porr Lo faces losing control of 100000 wine bottles and 30000 slippers from jubilee offerings while Beira ANN Lockwoop starts campaign collections. She notes a campaign path requires a cheek rain as she runs for office.
A new horse care trend uses a Turkish style bath for sweating and cooling horses. The service operates at a New York stable with growing, profitable patronage.
In Dr Williams library London rests a Bible written in shorthand. It is noted for its exquisite script and is said to have belonged to a James II era apprentice who feared a prohibition on the Bible and copied the text as a safeguard.
Statistics from the Internal Revenue Department show over two billion cigarettes sold in 1887. If current year's pace continues, 1888 will surpass the prior twelve months.
The region sees a surge in machine shops stove factories and foundries amid a broader industrial push. Alabama leads in capital investment with 14.94 million in the first six months followed by Kentucky and Texas in the rankings.
After ten days of searching for Maro Merepiru the California heiress of Oakland was found on a ranch below Arroyo Grande dressed as a boy and hoeing beans. The ranch hand says she was unusually faithful and loyal during her disappearance with guardians seeking to shape her into a proper lady.
Mrs Ernestine L Ross an early champion of women’s rights in the American colony of London. She lived in Michigan and in 1836 addressed the State Legislature in person on women’s enfranchisement. Though frail now she still sends encouragement across the water to activists.
A Waltham Works dial is said to depict twelve silhouette figures instead of Roman numerals. One o clock shows a woman with a baby, growing to a schoolboy by eight, a college student by nine, and twelve ends with an old man as the scene progresses through the day.
The Dominion of Canada plans a bounty of one dollar per ton on pig iron produced locally. In the next Parliament session an effort will seek similar support for copper smelting, including a bounty on copper matte and subsidies for railway links to smelters or tide water.
William Hastines Toor of London advertised in seventy English papers for a clerk with a $450 yearly salary. About fifty applicants received a circular demanding five shillings as a good faith guarantee before any inquiry. Police arrested him after he had re-?
In a court hearing the defendant Toon admitted organizing a scheme to obtain 5 000 applications for a clerk position within a month and distributing five shillings with 2 000 of them. The jury convicted him of fraud, but the judge released him on bond with a warning and suspended sentence.
Maine craftsman E G Osgood of Portland in 1884 made a white maple octagonal cane with a carved head and hollow sections containing three balls three dice a mounted cannon a rolling pin a chain a sailor's leg and a duffle bell. The piece bears the inscription total abstinence from all that intoxicates and has attracted museum offers in Boston.
The New York Sun prints an interview with Roscoe Conkling, suppressed at his request, arguing that a woman's life should never be taken by law. He contends civilization should forbid capital punishment for women and calls the hastening of a woman's soul by a civilized judge a blot on manhood.
At the National Convention of the Christian Endeavor Societies in Chicago the Connecticut delegation presented a floral standard. It bore a white flower dish two feet wide, with a green wreath and a red One Cent, a cross-bar reading Connecticut to Illinois. Connecticut had pledged $300, Illinois $300.01, with the cent plated in gold and sent to the treasury. Connecticut later returned the cent.
A French author’s round up of world millionaires cites England 200, US 100, Germany 50, Austria 50, France 75, Russia 50, India 50, others 125 with billions in play. Critics contest Gould at 275 million and Mackay at 250 million, noting past borrowings and speculative losses tempering wealth while American names and European fortunes draw debate.
Narragansett Pier observers describe the resort as the nation’s most extravagant. Surf bathing features risqué and varied costumes, while Newport visitors mingle with local elites. Swimmers are robust, tricycles appear for couples, and the Narragansett casino offers music and meals at high prices.
In Teras Siftings, Ugly Bill a buckskin wearing desperado recruiting for an Alaska expedition is confronted by his wife. After a drunken confrontation at home, the buckskin adventurer is exposed as Jim Jones and his Alaska venture ends when the headquarters are shut forever.
A mother hopes George has studied hard at college and values liberal education while the father warns the mother she may have overdone it. He mentions sending an extra two hundred dollars by check. Life notes the emotional exchange and financial support.
A historical exchange states that a young man with a slender salary should choose for his wife a girl of small waste, reflecting a social norm about prudent marriage choices and economic compatibility.
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