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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1872
Page
5
A lyrical voyage poem where the speaker sails a winged vessel through Vesuvius Bay toward Ischia Capri and Paradise, yet remains inwardly anchored by dreamlike shores. The misty isles, tranquil seas, and carefree crew evoke a serene escape from worldly uproar.
A first person chronicle details a day spent begging through Manhattan from Union Square to the Bowery, testing disguises, encounters with passersby and police, and yielding $2.33 plus a hot whisky punch, while reflecting on the craft and sympathy for beggars.
A tale recalls a pious minister Rev Burge and his son Watty aged eight who steals sugar from a mother’s closet. Presiding elder Dr Closes, sleeping nearby, is mistaken for the thief when Mrs Burge finds Watty at the sugar dish. She scolds him, then learns the true culprit is none other than her son.
A playful catalog of human body measurements and functions for a teenager around fifteen. It lists bones and muscles counts, blood weight and heart rate, lung capacity and air exchange, brain and nerve counts, skin structure and surface area, and the vast network of sweating pores, totaling an extraordinary overview of the living body.
A New Jersey church comedy centers on a deaf deacon selling a church book for seventy five cents. The minister asks for children to be presented for baptism next Sabbath, and the deacon misreads the cue, inviting all to take as many as they want for seventy five cents each.
A California hotel cashier was placed aside after confessing to her employer that she had dabbled in stocks for a year or more. She claimed to hold more than $200,000 as a result of those investments, prompting discussion of a settlement.
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