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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1883
Page
3
A nostalgic poem reflects on the old customs of courtship and simple rural life. The speaker contrasts past calm affection with modern advances, noting that enduring habits still bless present life and that wisdom lies in cherished traditions.
Aura recounts leaving Miss Hough's seminary and becoming entangled with Ellen March's schemes and a cousin Gideon Reeves. Encouraged by flattery and letters, Aura falls for a deception, faces a coercive suitor, hides the truth from her father, and witnesses an assault by her brother Harry, leading to scandal and heartbreak.
The Philadelphia front wall of a historic house is spared by owner Thomas H. Green to honor its past. The home linked to Benedict Arnold and later Burd and Shippen heirs may not be altered due to a dying injunction preventing conversion to stores. A romantic tale recounts a duel between a betrothed man and his rival after a ghost tale involving Arnold.
Readable scraps recount Beecher’s soft hat, Dr Brehm’s planned January lectures, Mrs. Thomas’s Washington home, Cobbin’s trilingual shorthand, Tucker’s forty seven years of service, the Fremonts’ New York residence, Josh Billings earnings shift, Whittier’s album verses, Carlyle niece and Froude MSS dispute, and a $6,000 check incident.
An excerpt from St Nicholas outlines the Great Brooklyn Bridge project detailing cost of sixteen million dollars and thirteen years of work. It describes approaches width and traffic capacity with channels for teams and cars and estimates eighty thousand pedestrians crossing per hour.
A Marylander fired at a colored man who was in a tree on the farmer’s land. The man fell from the tree, seemingly mortally wounded, and claimed he believed he was a crow at the time of the shooting.
A collage of witty lines and quips from various papers including the Pitts burgh Telegraph and N Y Independent. Jests cover locusts alligators a Florida man funeral director and civil rights era jokes with implied dates and places.
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