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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1883
Page
3
A meditation on how small events cause big outcomes recounts deaths from fear and folly, strange accidents, and notable misfortunes. It cites cases from history and fiction, including Penterman, Lang, and Montreval, and ends with luck turning into fortune through accidental discoveries.
A dialogue from N Y Life questions a druggist clerk mislabeling a morphine dose as quinine. It highlights risks of shelf mixups, legal blame dodges, and the idea that patient death may be the patient’s own action in the flawed system.
The question of a Memphis bridge across the Mississippi River is revived with claims of a solid rock bottom for foundation. Promoters say the outlet would make Memphis a leading Southern city, though depth is not stated.
A Peacock family in Winsted Conn thought their child had died when found in water but the coffin was returned after the child revived later the same day. The mother found the child apparently lifeless in a tub of water on the piazza and the child showed signs of life only the following day.
A collage of brief profiles notes President Buchanan graduating at fifteen, Thomas McElrath and Horace Greeley shaping the New York Tribune, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s enduring Uncle Tom’s Cabin income, and artist Charles Sprague Pearce as a Paris medalist in poor health. Also mentioned are Don Pratt’s liver ailment, Mollie Garfield’s beauty and studies, John A. Campbell’s legal prominence, Annie Louise Cary’s devoted marriage to art, and Dr. Frederick H. Knapp’s notable connections and Masonic rank.
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various papers. Snippets include a satirical choir mishap, a railroad conductor on time, a language gag with an immigrant, ham jokes, fashion quips, a punning exchange, puffed humor about a sweet girl graduate, and absurd homemaking tips.
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