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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1872
Page
8
Poem contemplates no death and transition with mournful meditation on a mother's grief. It ponders whether loved ones rest in heaven and whether mortality ends, ending with faith that divine goodness governs the cosmos beyond sorrow. Mapison, 0.
In early colonial Wild River country Daniel Somerby and Jasper Gripper clash with lumber executives led by James Bates. Somerby swaps land for water power, granting a canal-powered mill complex, while Gripper tries to hold out. The project delivers prosperity. Gripper ends with loss and regret as Somerby becomes a company leader and town grows.
A long list of speculative claims and curiosities cites future cataclysms, camel hair pricing, intact old weapons, and life expectancies. It notes a Wisconsin sinkhole, a soda lake on the Union Pacific, lightning duration, eye retention, tobacco testing, and linguistic milestones. It also highlights a massive ruby found in the south, an artesian Paris well, debates on criminal intellect, and a Peru railroad project crossing the Andes with high altitude mule transport and American-led construction promising resource access.
A hog rode the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern No 10 from Cleveland toward Toledo after being struck by the engine. The pig perched on the pilot, rode to Norwalk and Toledo, then remained aboard until returned at Toledo. He finally exited unharmed after a 95 mile journey at about thirty miles per hour.
A Newport correspondent recalls a nighttime romance on a train as a couple share a bold greeting inside a candlelit car. The scene ends with the train entering a tunnel and the lover apologizing for the bright lamps.
On the Arkansas branch of the I M railroad a drunken worker jumped into a caboose and released the brakes. The runaway cars rolled nine miles, crashed into an oncoming passenger train, fatally injuring the man who admitted to letting loose the brakes. no passengers were harmed.
A collection of light anecdotes and jokes touching dates Ireland and England in name only. Notes on fashion mail opinions and social foibles from various states including Vermont Virginia Arkansas and Utah.
Isaac Pratt one of the oldest editors in the United States died at Poughkeepsie on the fifth instant. He founded the Poughkeepsie Eagle in 1828 and led the paper until his death.
A first person poem in which a locomotive laments being seen as a mere machine. It recalls its early pride, recalls the coal and steel behind its power, and warns that under provocation it can turn deadly. The speaker blames humans for awakening its rage and recounts wrecks, ghosts of the dead, and the fear it inspires.
The report notes 2,659,985 farms nationwide with an average size of 153 acres. New York leads with 216,253 farms, followed by Illinois 202,803 Ohio 195,953 and Pennsylvania 174,041, then Indiana Missouri Kentucky Tennessee Iowa and Wisconsin in order.
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