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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1883
Page
5
A nostalgic poem in a newspaper fragment describes Jane Jr a dutiful sixteen year old with wheat colored hair brown eyes and playful charm. The narrator reflects on loving her while milking cows near the setting sun and autumn dew, blending tenderness with humor and a touch of longing. Chicago Tritana.
Tom Morecambe seeks solitude to escape debt and a love affair but lands in a small coastal town during a contested election. He discovers a misdelivered portmanteau containing a photograph and a lock of hair and pursues the rightful owner, tracing a sealed letter to Mr Burrows in Bilchester before returning to Morriston.
Tom receives a parcel with no sender and finds a box of £500 in sovereigns inside after a mistaken exchange. The note and card refer to Mr Burrows and Mr A C Strawbridge, leaving Tom puzzled as he tries to unravel who sent the money and why.
Tom carries a mysterious parcel after a note hints it is for Mr Strawbridge, the Conservative agent. A hotel rumors frame Mr Burrows and Strawbridge as bribe suspects as townsfolk push back against the accusations. Tom clings to the box despite being ejected, sensing both danger and value.
A man injured in an incident opts to repay the amount he believed was due but receives no replies to his letters to two gentlemen. He deposits the money and suspects the rightful claimant will fail to recover the spoil, as reported by the London Truth.
A Carson Nevada mill halted when Belcher ore contained brook trout. The screen lead into the mill race broke allowing trout to enter the water and be drawn into the batteries, reducing fish to pulp. Over a hundred trout remained in the race, and fishing prospects around Empire are noted as good after a wire screen was added.
A sixteen inch trout caught in Mariette Lake is on display at the Virginia City water office. The head is damaged but the body is intact with an upper jaw beak like a parrot and teeth on the sides. The fish may be preserved as a natural curiosity for Captain Overton and the Water Company.
The Pueblo area plans a paper mill that would manufacture paper from soapweed leaves also called bear grass or Spanish bayonet. Colorado hosts Yucca angustifolia with other regional species, offering fibrous leaves. If demand and labor costs align, thousands of tons could be harvested annually and millions more if cultivation begins to feed western mills.
A man with a silver skull visited Louisville after a Civil War battle. He sufered a head wound when shell debris tore off the skull top, survived, and a surgeon who later attended Garfield fitted a hinged silver plate to cover the opening. The plate allows movement and the wearer hides the scar with a wig.
An Orange County resident named his children after the days of the week, Monday through Sunday, with a newborn last child named One Week after all days were used, according to the Albany Journal.
A digest of brief antiquities and anecdotes: a San Francisco tax remark, Mrs. Elizabeth Weeks’s death echoing a Portland birth, marriage and death on the 21st, Washington and Sherman’s farewell orders dated November 1, 1783 and 1883, Mitchell Putnam’s 103-year wander from Texas to South Carolina, a Georgia man's Civil War era exploits, Washington department kinship notes, Rev. Dr. E. L. Magoon’s gift of old master copies to Philadelphia’s design school, and the Delaware Indian Riley’s death in New Jersey.
A roundup of jokes and witticisms from various papers including the New York Independent and Boston Courier. Bits range from quips about willful heirs and legal fees to home remedies and fashion gags. A cartoonish tale in Louisville sketches a piano kitchen scene sparked by a Georgia farmer’s grand piano purchase.
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