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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1873
Page
6
Poem recounts Cupid’s misadventure with Daphne and Apollo, transforming Daphne into a laurel tree and narrating a wooden wedding motif. It blends myth with contemporary marriage sentiment, urging steadfast faith, self denial, and hopeful unity amid modern divorces.
Appletons' Journal recounts the 1819 Savannah voyage, led by Captains Stevens and Moses Rogers, as the first Atlantic crossing by steam. It highlights reception in Liverpool, interactions with British officers, royal visits in Stockholm and St. Petersburg, and awards to Rogers. It notes Rogers’ later death and the ship's legacy.
A collage of foreign news items reports rapid railroad work in Calcutta and Berlin cabbies vying for fares, weighty cathedral bells in Cologne, Siam receiving English gifts, and a mix of royal, religious, and political tidbits from Europe Asia and America.
A playful dialogue unfolds where an Echo answers questions about marriage and conditions of winning a maid. The refrainical chatter covers money status dress and plainness, ending with the blunt line Sell her.
A mosaic of quips and quibbles with puns on baking, epizootics, sunspots, taxation, and everyday foibles. Snippets poke fun at clergy, creditors, tobacco, and a Methodist preacher’s bold imagery, reflecting a late 19th or early 20th century humor column.
The United States Mint began melting the first installment of twenty million one dollar gold coins to be recoined into larger denominations. The vast pile would stretch eleven and five sixths miles if stood upright, and about one hundred fifty eight miles if laid flat. Water was found in the desert near Bunker Hill on the Kansas Pacific, refuting the Great American Desert claim.
A historical piece urges good breeding on the road, calling for half the road for each team, polite passing especially near ladies, and stopping to allow the other to pass. It argues that self restraint prevents accidents and that simple courtesy can replace heavy laws in governing teamsters’ conduct.
Cranes Fenno Horrman once a popular songwriter and litterateur is said to be dead years ago. He has long been an inmate of a lunatic asylum in Pennsylvania and is described as incurable.
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