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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1873
Page
6
A lively overheard exchange follows a house party. Mollie Julia and Fred discuss a kiss, dances, and a revealing encounter with Gus. The narrator recalls a staged scene in dim lights and questions why men deceive themselves amid flirtations and laughter.
Louis Colman recalls starting as an apprentice at fifteen under William R. Lee for three years at one dollar weekly. On his eighteenth birthday Lee ends obligations, Colman gains fifty dollars, and chooses restraint over a celebratory drink, with peers offering beer but he declines to honor a fallen colleague.
The narrator recounts adopting a fraudulent signature to impersonate Colman & Co. and rising in the business. He courts Miss Caddie Colman, contends with Harley Hicksey, and ultimately marries into the Colman family while shaping the Abbetown business. A moral: seize good opportunities without waiting for a better one.
A Christmas Eve fire in New York City ravaged the New York branch of the American Newspaper Union Cramer Aikens Cramer Milwaukee proprietors with an estimated loss of 50000. Strong insurance is expected to cover most of the damage and patrons are assured speedy resumption of service using duplicate stock and ready-printed sheets within a week.
The Louisville Courier-Journal pegs 1872 total tobacco at about 259.48 million tbs, with the Western states excluding Ohio Kentucky and Tennessee yielding 172.34 million tbs. State outputs include Kentucky 105.30m, Missouri 13.72m, Illinois 5.30m, Indiana 9.14m, Ohio 17.24m, Tennessee 19.53m, plus other Westerns 2.30m. Compare 1871 Western at 145m and 1870 totals of 175.51m. About 50,000 hogsheads likely to be sold in Louisville.
A Newfoundland stays by a drunken man near Central Park as about twenty police and a hundred bystanders observe. The dog blocks approach and refuses to leave, and officers splash water in a failed bid to move it. The man, Dick Yates, is said to be promised a territorial governorship by the President contingent on temperance.
The poem laments autumnal decay and bitter days as soldiers soberly face fear and youths seek cheer. Vignettes mix children's school joys with a blind man’s misstep, ending in a whimsical misfortune as a polka ends badly.
A collage of quizzical phrases, light humor, and short vignettes. It includes sly captions about trades like cobbler and painter, moral quips about honesty, a moonshine anecdote, ad rhetoric tips, and a jab at advertising claims amid scattered names, places, and moral observations.
Sir Humphrey Davy showed heat conduction ranks linen, cotton, wool, silk with linen best. Looser weaves reduce heat loss, so choose wool and silk for warmth next to skin. For outerwear, avoid overcoats in warm rooms, remove furs during shopping to prevent throat and lung inflammation.
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