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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1889
Page
5
The article notes the French army will drop the Tar Zouave uniform. In France food wrappers will no longer use tinfoil. Cororapo is emerging as an oil producing state. Wells near Pueblo Arkansas yield about 1000 barrels daily. An English coal dealer fined for falsifying an official weight after using a benevolent scales registering a ton for 2400 pounds.
A Connecticut based Preach-Growing corporation plans to bring its large orchards in Meriden and Berlin into bearing this year. Officials expect a total yield of forty thousand baskets from the harvest.
The text notes a shift among British capitalists who increasingly back American breweries, challenging the old English belief that good malt liquors cannot be made in America because they lack the hops.
A preparation by Rev. A. C. Waghorne will include about 900 flowering plant species, around fifty ferns, and over 250 mosses and lichens.
The New York Herald urges men to wear knee breeches to conceal bow leg deformities, describing it as another social reform.
The Panama Canal scheme appears doomed with about 250 million dollars already sunk and an estimated 90 million dollars more needed to complete the enterprise. This assessment highlights the far-reaching costs and uncertain prospects of finishing the canal project.
A 250 year old Newport origin story tells three settlers hiring Native Americans to burn brush at the town site in exchange for brass coat buttons. In Athens Georgia a school flower craze led to extra janitorial work and a classroom flower ban.
A London exhibition features many American novelties on sale by English firms. The US monitor Miantonomah will showcase two large American guns with an estimated ten mile range. The piece notes Uncle Samuel's growing pretension about the caliber and carrying qualities of his "pops."
A wide awake traveler in Oklahoma cut down a tree on the riverbank and nailed boards to it to make a bridge. He charged ten cents per crossing and earned a sizable sum from curious passersby.
Philadelphia mediums report Bishop claimed he was alive only after doctors dissected him. Spiritualists concede he is dead now, leaving unclear what he can do about the assertion.
The quote suggests that happier homes depend on wives’ willingness to be pleasant and considerate at home, mirroring their politeness with neighbors. It asserts that more harmonious marriages would result if home behavior matched public gentleness.
The Tur General of the Chilean army that conquered Peru was Irish, reflecting British commercial influence in the conquest. The new American Minister to Chile is also an Irish exile, suggesting a pattern of adopted talent influencing regional affairs whose significance remains unclear.
The future American navy will comprise twenty two ships from the armored cruiser Maine with 444 men to a first class torpedo boat with four officers and eighteen men. The plan outlines a diverse modern fleet upon completion.
The article notes 5 786 men aboard twenty two ships with 500 officers and 5 286 sailors and marines. Dr Jacov M Shmulevitch advocates dried potatoes as a shelf stable food easier to transport. Dried potatoes are softened by macerating in water for ten or twelve hours before cooking.
The Bulgarian prince Ferdinand may be deposed but is unlikely to be kidnapped as his predecessor was. Three hundred young men volunteer as a body guard sworn to defend him to the death. Their badge is a death head and they bear swords revolvers and yataghans made of Bulgarian steel.
Washington correspondent notes Mrs Harrison keeps a private photograph of the former First Ladies, a mother and daughter, on display. The image, taken by Prince years ago for private circulation, was never allowed to be sold by Mrs Cleveland.
The former senator plans a historical tale featuring a plebeian rising to the Roman Senate, entangled in a vast conspiracy. His family is slain, he hides in Mesopotamia, aided by the Constantinople bishop, and the climax reveals a miraculous deliverance amid ongoing persecution.
The Wooster Ohio community questions warrants for Ellen Rinkle to officiate marriages. The piece argues peer pressure and tradition will slow acceptance of female ministers performing weddings, comparing bias to skepticism toward women doctors.
Washington correspondent reports Capt. Weedin of the Cincinnati Zoo discovered a novel rat control method. Sunflower seeds lure rats into traps, but once inside they swarm into cages with weasels and minks, where the predators kill them rapidly. Weasels are slightly slower but all rats are captured.
The report lists state debts with Virginia highest burdened by funded and unfunded debt totaling over 31 million in Massachusetts and Tennessee also carrying large obligations. It notes total state indebtedness at about 220 million, under 1 percent of aggregate property value, with Nevada Nebraska and Louisiana bearing the heaviest taxes. Massachusetts has the second largest debt but the lowest tax rate below 12 cents per $100.
An illustrated description details the Livotype machine, a linotype like device that forms full lines of type from a single metal bar. It explains matrices, magazine tubes, air cooling, and automatic distribution, noting efficiency gains and limitations for newspaper work at the New York Tribune.
A concise reflection on friendship as the ultimate standard of virtue within community life. It emphasizes mutual trust, support, and harmony as foundational to a well ordered society.
A collage of humorous lines and cartoons from a late 19th or early 20th century paper. Jests reference stage fright begging for drink a monkey wrench marriage joked with puns and eccentric captions. Readers encounter quips about opera crowds and social satire with playful dialogues and a spring poet’s woes.
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