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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1883
Page
3
Poem reminiscence of winter warmth with a cricket song and kettle bubbling beside a hearth. Susan Hartley Swett adapts a scene from Harper's Young People showing children gathered, old folk listening, and a farmhouse kitchen united by cozy sounds.
Clotilda Fry, a sixteen year old in Clarke County, trusts a well dressed stranger who seeks twenty five dollars and a diamond ring. The man, Edgar Montague, robs the Fry home, flees with valuables, and is later arrested. The episode ends with Clotilda’s disillusionment and a lesson against sensational romance.
A London Globe report discusses sanitation in India, noting widespread water contamination and cultural attitudes toward cleanliness. It cites Madras observers, a Kamptee enteric fever outbreak among teetotal soldiers, and government efforts including sanitary primers in vernacular languages and water management practices. The piece highlights the need to reuse water, regulate tanks, and educate about refuse and sewage as manure.
A collage of social sketches and anecdotes features Colonel James Coulter and General John B. Gordon, plus snippets about Mrs. Sarah Whitman Parris, Bloodgood H. Cutter, Mrs. Tyler, and Joaquin Miller. The piece blends remarks on fashion, travel, poetry, and spelling mishaps with light political and literary commentary.
A New York Herald item warns that combs made of celluloid blend camphor and gun cotton can ignite or explode when heated. The piece playfully imagines husbands arming with extinguishers to rescue wives from blazes or losses of their outfits and safety.
A collage of lighthearted quips about marriage, laughter, and vanity, mixed with city life captions and a joke about an elevator operator turned editor. It also includes a fashion digest from Harper’s Bazar detailing shirred basques, foulards, and polonaises with notes on fabrics, trims, and silhouettes for summer silk dresses.
The eight foot diameter sycamore known as Platanus occidentalis stands near the former M. W. Chapin warehouse at Ferry Street. Hollow trunk, ancient roots, and a history of near destruction with recent attempts to cut for firewood halted by Valley Railroad president. David Connor had cut branches but was stopped, sparing the tree for one more chance.
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