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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1889
Page
6
Poem excerpt by Charles L. Hildreth in Lippincott's explores a river's restless vitality and the narrator's existential quest. The flowing water, vivid natural imagery, and repeated refrain convey the notion that true rest remains unattainable while striving for higher truth and purpose persists.
A narrator recalls a vivid South Sea voyage on the Pearl to Aru Islands. Captain Dustin sacrifices crew and nearly loses his life chasing a seemingly unique feather said to cost nine lives. The voyage ends with the Pearl burned at sea and the feather saved as a haunting relic.
A new government dam hides the famed pictorial rock near Paint Creek from sight at all water levels. Prehistoric carvings showed animals and human figures. local relics indicate the valley was once densely peopled. In Moorefield, a cliff known as the Gap Rocks bears a large fox sculpture visible for miles, recently examined by Glen McGill who climbed to the top with a rope, facing strong winds.
Nasr ed Deen Shah of Persia tours Europe for a third time and meets stiff reception. He is described as treacherous and indecent, provoking disdain at Berlin St Petersburg and Vienna. His suite includes a twelve year old favorite, Goolamali Khan, whom rulers fear and privilege above ministers.
An excerpt recalls a perilous rescue attempt at sea with references to a business trip and a boarding life. The dialogue hints at an influence of the saloon on politics and a woman urging restraint as John faces a crucial voyage.
An insect of the order Hemiptera measures about one third inch and is light grass green with white dots and yellow side streaks. It feeds on apple and other trees from July to season end, winters as eggs, whose rows of punctures the female oviposits under the bark.
Farmers report large numbers of seventeen year locusts across the country. Superstition surrounds their appearance with belief that the letter on a wing predicts the nation's fate. Past letters, W and P, signaled war and peace, leaving locals to watch for the current omen.
Lemuel and John Wise, believed the oldest twins in the United States if not the world, turned eighty one yesterday. The Germantown brothers ran a cabinet making business at Main Street and East Washington Lane from 1828 to 1863, with the site in continuous use since 1769. They resemble one another closely, share relatives’ mistaking “Uncle Sammy” and “Uncle John,” and remain active and jovial though both are widowed and twice married. Both are deaf and have avoided tobacco and stimulants, receiving many congratulatory calls yesterday.
Mrs. C. M. Alexander of Scituate aged about ninety, while sewing on May 24, broke the pointed end of a needle in her thumb and could not extract it. By May 31 the needle had surfaced through the skin of her left foot’s fourth toe, a marvel the doctors say is unmatched in seven days.
The piece claims Spanish railways are the most dangerous due to landslides floods and banditry while Western Germany and England are the safest. It cites statistics showing 1888 1889 fatalities due to rail safety neglect at one in 65 100 000, and in 1872 one in 18 000 000 passengers.
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