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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1889
Page
6
Washington report details General Casey’s two library options. Original plan would cost about 6.0 million dollars, giving capacity for up to 3.5 million volumes over time. reduced plan stays near 4.0 million but with smaller capacity and limited future expansion.
A feature on Mrs. Levi Parsons Morton wife of the Vice President elect detailing her Hudson Valley lineage beauty and charm. It lauds her charitable work hospitality and quick political insight noting her marriage in 1873 and her role in New York and Washington society.
A humorous tale about attempting cheap home improvements. The narrator tries wallpapering with a flour glue paste that fails spectacularly, papering a piano and his wife, then uses a four cent Turkish bath via spirit lamp. The cramped, risky methods cause burns, laughter, and a narrowly earned lesson.
A brief look at why glass lamp chimneys boost light by improving oxygen supply and heat concentration. Aime Argand, mentor of the lamp bearing his name, accidentally hit upon the idea by placing a broken flask neck over a wick, sparking a practical invention.
A Detroit Free Press反 excerpt recalls a Major's reply to a confidenced question linking Chicago to his second marriage. A Colorado horse thief quips about social limits after a dinner scene with a small boy who prefers camel hair ducks pest.
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