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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1882
Page
3
A July 4 reflection on America's founding, praising colonial hardship and the founders. The speaker recalls pilgrims, soldiers, ministers, and waves of resistance, urging vigilance to preserve freedom and honor the ancestors.
Oriella Gladmyr and Lance Levering celebrate five years of marriage amid a staged April fool’s joke. The tale traces how Ned Sanborn and Maude helped bring the couple together after initial mutual disdain, culminating in a playful reveal during a Newport luncheon at May Croft.
Lance Levering and Oriella Gladmyr marry in a staged April fool scene at Maude Sanborn’s party. Misunderstandings, clever banter, and a hurried wedding vow lead to genuine affection as the couple foils the joke and begins a real marriage, while friends react with surprise and amusement.
Minnie Myrtle once celebrated as a poetess of earlier days is reported to have died in the Woman's Hospital in New York after months of severe suffering. The piece notes her marriage to Joaquin Miller and her residence in Oregon.
A collage of comic exchanges and cartoons from multiple sources. Jokes include a dinner table quip about drinking, a station master and a suspicious passenger, Foote’s handkerchief, a grammar correction at a Boston school, a Sabbath parlor scene, a waiter and a fly in soup, and a Toronto kite stunt involving a cat.
A Fourth of July editorial contrasts alleged abuses under the Republicans with British oppression, arguing Lincoln era arrests and wartime measures exceeded royal tyranny. The piece claims long-lasting damage to constitutional respect, condemning postwar Republican rule in the South and predicting future justice in history’s judgment.
Eight year old George Johnson was arrested with older thieves and, when asked his role, claimed to be ready to shout for the police and flee. Instead of jail, authorities sent him home for a spanking and bed.
Those who thought 7 000 000 was excessive for Alaska may take comfort that the price equaled a little under two cents per acre, underscoring the bargain nature of the acquisition.
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