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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1882
Page
2
A quiet Christmas vision unfolds with a snowy street scene and a divine encounter. The lady glimpses orphans and weary workers and pledges to help the needy, hearing the heavenly message to aid those in distress. The poem ends with a grateful hymn and a call to charitable action.
A large Abyssinian family on a rooftop corner revels in Christmas eve mischief and generosity. Ginevra Alveretta slips out to meet neighbors sought for gifts, a Christmas mix of fairy tales and Santa fears, ending with a surprise town-house gathering and shared feast.
The piece describes early convalescence as a delicate period with recovering patients needing rest and calm. It advises family quiet, careful meals, measured appetite management, and appealing, clean dining settings to aid recovery. It also notes a physician’s care and contrasts with the later Mrs. Russell estate bequests to multiple groups in New Haven.
A collage notes Uncle Tom's Cabin enduring popularity, Mrs Otis as a Pa Mall Gazette contributor, Mrs Margaret Preston's spider web picture, Boston druggist John J Brown's long career and death at ninety two, Nilsson and Patti autograph anecdote, reflections on Thurlow Weed and early statesmen ages, Longfellow study intact and Mount Auburn grave marked by daily wreaths.
A compilation of gay anecdotes and quips from newspapers including Lowell Courier Burlington Hawkeye Philadelphia Chronicle and Chicago Times about fashion love education trains and pianos. It notes a fashionable lady preferring her husband over a lost poodle an Oswego girl crafting seven hundred words from conservatory and a punchline about pianoforte pronunciation.
A hog owned by John R. Ellis of Etna Tompkins County New York entered a stable and gored a tied cow with its tusks causing fatal bleeding. The incident occurred recently and the cow died from its injuries.
An Austin grocer insulted Mrs Mose Schaumburg by joking that she weighed 190 pounds while weighing her on scales. The exchange stemmed from playful weighing and a remark about her exact weight, recalling Tam’s guessing in Cincinnati.
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