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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1888
Page
7
A rustic verse about Jane Ann choosing the baker boy over a lawyer. She praises the baker’s work and bread while declaring wedlock to him brings security and sustenance, contrasting the lawyer’s poverty and flight from debt. The ballad closes with Jane Ann’s refrain that bread and a baker suit her best.
A 19 year old youth recounts becoming a fireman for Silas Markley, a calm veteran, and aiding his risky ride as a misrouted express nears a siding. Markley obeys orders risking disaster yet saves a hundred lives, including his mother, by guiding the engine to avoid a head-on crash.
A mosaic of quotes and gags from late 19th and early 20th century humor pages. Snippets span opera praise and teapot mishaps to misquoted dialogues, old-time city wits, and satirical verse on marriage and manners. The chunk preserves a collage tone with varied sources and names.
Bronson Howard argues in a New York journal that colleges should teach dramatic art. He notes universities train rhetoric and poetry but largely ignore drama as an art form, leaving graduates unfamiliar with elements like unity despite familiarity with unities in theory.
John Stanley of Dixon drowned in the nearby river and his body was recovered. At Chicago J P McConnell, attacked during a Jerusalem panorama viewing, caused a scene in Rock Island before being captured and returned. The League of American Wheelmen Illinois Division met in Springfield and scheduled a Chicago meeting August 25 to elect officers and adopt a new constitution. The cyclers toured Camp Lincoln and other sites, with a banquet at the Leland Hotel.
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