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Newspaper

Dixon Sun

Location

Dixon, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1872

Page

5

Sir John Moore Buried Epizootically

A comic verse piece describes a silent city street after a concert. Streets empty, horses sneeze, a driver explains the outbreak. The narrator finds their filly distressed, seats and feed offered, and a saddle glistening overhead as the scene ends with a hushed, eerie mood.

Repentance and a Forbidden Kiss Reflections in a Poem

A narrator recalls a kiss that felt wrong yet unavoidable and questions male shamelessness and the urge to repeat the encounter. The piece probes guilt, desire, and penance under a coy, moonlit mood attributed to a Harper’s Bazaar context.

Mystery Nurse Reveals Poison Plot in Middlebury

In a stormy night tale a nurse confides to Dr Lockwood that Mrs Spencer may be slowly poisoned by her husband Dr Spencer at Clifton House. The doctor dies after a trial of antidote therapy and Mrs Spencer survives to learn the truth, while Miss Melrose spirals into illness and memory.

Middlebury Eis Clifton House Spencer Miss Melrose Mrs. Spencer Alice Herndon James Spencer Dr. Spencer Lucille Melrose Job Miss Herndon Dr. Lockwood Mrs. Hurd Alicia Gayety James Herbert

Lays of Labor Awakening toilers cast off oppression

A poem urges toilers to unite against wealth inequality and degradation. It denounces passive sermons and slave-like toil while championing universal brotherhood, justice, and action for workers to claim their rights. It calls awakening, solidarity, and collective struggle.

Truth Justice Universal Brotherhood

Quick Bits of Wit and Local Color Across America

A collage of humorous vignettes and anecdotes from readers and editors. Tales range from elevated quips about church weddings in Milan to Irish and Kentucky humor, clerks, editors, and lawyers. A distant note on Pacer Sound forecasts a 250 million feet lumber trade.

Milan Pacer Sound

Two Eyebrows Removed From Engineer Case

Reports from Des Moines say John Rafferty a Rock Island railroad engineer suffered a rare facial anomaly. Doctors Grimes and Ulrich found a second eyebrow beneath the original and removed the extra hair, noting the case is unique in medical history.

John Rafferty Rock Island Grimes Ulrich Des Moines London

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