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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1882
Page
5
A dialect lyric praising a Black beloved with vivid rural imagery. The speaker extols her beauty and sweetness, using playful rural metaphors and affectionate phrases about Mag and Meg within a folk style verse.
The passage urges decisive, relentless self control to resist temptations of indulgence. With sustained resolve, daily discipline strengthens character, aligning needs to higher aims. Prosperity aids moral steadiness. failure preserves virtue, and small beginnings yield greater spiritual capacity. From Our Continent.
An analysis of personal finance emphasizing the law of choice, the law of amount, and the law of method. It argues that self discipline in spending—prioritizing higher mental and moral joys over small luxuries, living within means, and maintaining a strict budget—builds independence and reduces wasteful expenditure.
A housekeeper is urged to choose light meals during hot weather with cucumber salads, eggs, ham, beets, lettuce, berries, and optional dishes like boiled chicken with tomatoes or salmon with potatoes. It advises mild meats, dumplings, and fruit desserts, plus tips on eating slowly, chewing well, and avoiding overeating.
Eugene Schuyler, long in the U S diplomatic service in Europe, visits New York and discusses the Russian Jewish exodus. He cites peasant oppression via strict loan and claim enforcement by Jews who hold extensive land, while insisting none are artisans or farmers. Chicago News.
The town of Mineral Ridge in Mahoning County Ohio sinks three to five feet due to coal removal. The New York Pennsylvania and Ohio railway track near the depot settled two to three feet, requiring the hole be filled with cinders.
A Chicago Herald piece humorously details a wife keeping an expense journal. She tears a newspaper margin to record income and outlays, wires a quirky trial balance, and nearly balances her household funds despite small errors and playful miscounting.
A Medical and Surgical Reporter reply cites English physicians Marston Lees Jenner and West with extensive vaccination experience none report transmission of other diseases. A Boston doctor notes no deaths linked to vaccination and cites improvement in health, while a skeptical mother’s claim about scrofula is contradicted by later events.
The passage notes the Alaska achieving 194 miles in 24 hours on its fastest trip, contrasting with the James Baines reach of 420 miles in 24 hours and the Flying Cloud making 433 miles in 24 hours 25 minutes. The figures highlight historical maritime speed comparisons among notable vessels.
Paterson New Jersey police magistrate fines the Salvation Army captain and lieutenant for singing and shouting on the streets and warns them to desist from public performances.
A poem praising a mother's impartial listening to her children's varied prayers. The speaker recalls a friend who doubted that God attends to individual pleas, then finds comfort in imagining the mother's plan. She resolves that God, with wiser wisdom, grants some wishes while tenderly denying others.
A sobering examination of sneer and ridicule toward the Bible. It argues disbelief masks ignorance and urges trust in God’s word amid universal questions about nature, science, and faith, citing Newton, Locke, and other luminaries.
A sermon excerpt by Rev D. M. McClellan United Presbyterian warns against mocking the Gospel. He compares doubt to venom and chains, and cites Christ’s warning that those who fall on the stone will be broken, while it crushes others. He declares the Gospel alone saves from death and grants eternal joys.
The article argues true religion shows through transformed heart and conduct. It emphasizes adding virtue knowledge temperance patience godliness brotherly kindness and charity, and warns that pretended faith without honest, amiable living is useless. It cites biblical guidance and a venerable metaphor to stress practical results. Baptist Weekly.
The piece praises Christian missions as the century’s foremost power to reform the world. It notes humble beginnings, rapid growth, and broad aims to undermine heathenism and spread Christian influence, predicting vast future results and moral grandeur.
A collage of quotes from Ben Azai Francis Quarles Gregory Gordon Coleridge and Thomas Kempis on duty charity faith kindness and inner peace. The lines urge duty leading to further action and praise humble deeds while warning against vanity and worldly rest.
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