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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1889
Page
8
A devotional poem reflects on bleak days and suffering, seeking aid from Love and Duty to awaken the soul. It envisions light, fruitfulness, and justice returning to Crawfordsville and the land, with imagery of Bethlehem’s star and spiritual renewal.
A long road life ends as Morgan a veteran traveling salesman, valued partner, faces anxiety over his daughter Mary and wife amid fears of diphtheria. He battles nagging worry on a peaceful October drive through Illinois farmland before choosing to return home.
A traveling salesman experiences a day of sale triumphs shadowed by family illness. A wife sacrifices to save another, is gravely ill, and the salesman returning home learns his wife Mary is dying while his daughter survives. He ends his travels, plans a new future, and mourns the loss ahead.
Superintendent Edwards offers a revision to the state school law to both chambers. The document lists extensive senate committees with members across Judiciary, Railroads, Finance, Appropriations, Public Buildings, Education, Canals, Agriculture, Mines, Labor, County Organization, and more, naming many senators and roles in a wide organizational roll call.
The revision by State Superintendent Dr Edwards and aides Kimbrough Lane Cook Dougherty has been submitted to the General Assembly. The sixteen article revision covers teacher certificates age limits trainee hires school site votes board duties schedules and polling requirements for trustees and book change limits.
Henry M. Strohm, son of Abraham Strohm of New Paris Indiana, escaped cannibals on the Island of Gaua after leaving home March 2 1887 at age 16. He traveled from Manila to Hong Kong and Sydney then sailed to London and is now on his way home completing a globe circling journey.
The Executive Committee of the Twenty first Illinois Infantry plans the annual reunion at Monticello on the second Wednesday of September. Col. W A Jemison and one company were from Monticello. Col. Fred Grant is expected to attend as an honorary member.
Philadelphia introduces Colonel New and Chicago greets Major Old as a joke on military ranks. The piece asks where Gen Average would hang out, framing a light city pun about local personas and playful titles.
A Tribune reporter spent two days in Walsh County visiting about twenty-five mostly Norwegian and Bohemian families in extreme poverty. Frost ruined the wheat crop leaving families with little food or clothing as winter work is impossible and mortgages linger while livestock is sheltered in straw stacks.
The Supreme Court affirms a Kansas murder conviction in William Baldwin v State of Kansas but finds no jurisdiction as the constitutional question was not raised at trial. The court also dismisses for want of jurisdiction the Montana Territory case of George W. Farnsworth. It also upholds Dent v West Virginia, denying a challenge to medical licensing rules as due process violation.
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