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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1889
Page
7
A humorous scene unfolds at McSweeney's where Mike Keegan ignores a smoking ban. The hall fills with a rank odor as Keegan keeps puffing, a gas leak and a dead rat blamed by onlookers, and Towser dies from the waste.
In a cemetery scene a youth in oversized clothes hides a dime novel and a pack of disguises for a mock detective caper. A chaotic chase unfolds as presumed villains vanish, a store robbery is hinted at, and a stern father disciplines the would‑be hero in a melodramatic tale.
A humorous dialogue from a newspaper clipping shows an Average Woman warning a Madam about a hotel fire. The exchange highlights a Lady guest insisting reporters are among the crowd as firemen battle flames.
Lieut Schwatka details Tarahumari life in Chihuahua, noting the Tarahumaris as the region’s predominant tribe in the Sierra Madre with Alpine endurance, adobe-like homes and communal looms. He records Apaches and Tepehuanes nearby, grave markers of Apache violence, and a cliffside village at Sisoguichic with Jesuit influence and winter hunting ways.
In a crowded street near a tall building under repair a brick fragment struck Kiljordan. He lost sense and movement, then underwent brain surgery to relieve pressure. After a successful operation he awoke and asked, hot enough for you, breaking a long silence.
Mrs Henpeck scolds Mr Henpeck for missing their son’s question. She comments on his deafness to family voices. He asks for meaning and she explains a hermit is a man who loves peace and quiet. New York Weekly.
The article explains the slang term all in the soup meaning a failed suitor and other disappointments. It likens the phrase to old time pickle and stews used to describe distress in social and political woes.
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