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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1883
Page
3
Poem excerpt reflecting on endurance and the drive to progress. The speaker resists rest, but notes that progress is required by “Western law” to go forward or backward. The lines emphasize struggle, fatigue, and the pull of the ascent toward a higher height.
The narrator arrives at Somerset Station and enters Grandmother Ellis's house where she meets David Alcott, a recovering patient under her care. A budding attachment forms as they share readings, conversations on literature, and a picnic, interrupted by a painful jealousy from a rival. The tale ends with a crisis of trust, a marriage proposal, and the protagonist accepting true love with David.
A collage of portraits and opinions: Elaine Goodale moves to Hampton VA to teach at the Indian school. Reese Butler, a 30 year old in Trinidad TX, is profiled. Massey plans metaphysical lectures. Deaths include Captain Mayne Reid and Big Jim Jones in NC. Oscar Wilde on Sarah Bernhardt and Miss Anderson. Alexis of Russia to marry Princess Amelie. Quick notes on Mr. Crawford and Dr Claudius authorial craft.
The text discusses the insufficiency of the electric telegraph in war and peacetime, noting the need for an international sign language. It cites Miss Gordon Cummings on indigenous sign systems among Sierras tribes, describing a silent, rapid language used in camps and gatherings that could serve as a universal means of communication.
An aged sheepskin bound book in Nashville Tennessee linked to young journalist Charlies Rutledge Whipple becomes a cursed heirloom. Whipple never read it and kept it locked after dark before his sudden death following a failed attempt to disown the artifact.
A collage of quips from 19th and early 20th century papers pounces on wit about fashion limits, editors, poets, and social foibles. It riffs on coats versus pants, intruder mishaps, bird protection clubs, deadly poisons, and schoolyard jargon with light, ironic tone.
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