Farm Music in Morning and Dusk
A poetic scene follows farm life from dawn to night. A milkmaid, farmer, mower, and birds fill the day with work and sound as the sun climbs then sinks, ending with night and the clover scented air under a rising moon.
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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1872
Page
6
Buck Fanshaw Dies in Nevada Mining Town Funeral Fanfare
The life of Buck Fanshaw, a prominent Nevada miner and saloon keeper, is recalled in a grand Virginia City funeral. Inquest findings describe a delirious death by arsenic and self harm, while townsfolk prepare a spectacular burial with flags half mast and a drumbeat procession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Fanshaw
Eastern Theological Seminary
Scotty” Briggs
Scotty
Doxology
Pard
Virginia City
Virginia
Fashion derive style notes and oddities of the season
The piece surveys revived fashions from long sleeves and morocco belts to crimson silk window shades, parasols with built in thermometers, glassware tableware, and ornate jewelry. It also reports on a New York rider on full blood Arabian horses, Marguerite Wristlets, and a Boston bride’s remarks about past suitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Arabia
Denmark
Baltic
Copenhagen
China
Japan
Rolfe
Thorvaldsen
New York
Amusing Fragments and Tiny Tales From Local Papers
A collection of comic snippets and brief anecdotes from various towns. Jests on labor, love, editors, mule tricks, Quakers, and a traveling poet, plus notices about misheard speeches, a hatter’s dead beat list, and a minister’s nuts and raisins schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Iowa School System Report Details 1871 Conditions
Washington correspondent reports Alonzo Abernathy’s 1871 Iowa public instruction study. It records 460,629 schoolable children with 342,000 in schools, taught by 14,070 teachers. Average wages were higher for men than women, schools ran six months, tuition about 38 cents weekly. 7,594 school houses valued at 6.764 million dollars. Iowa holds no debt and about 1 million in the treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Iowa
Alonzo Abernathy
De Bon Ton Demands Slim Waist and Foxy Hair in Paris
In Paris high society, a woman must maintain a slim waist and foxier hair to be deemed de bon ton. The comment underscores strict standards of appearance among the fashionable set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Nature's Refrain: A Poem on Time andmanifold Loss
A lament in verse on nature’s failures and fickle care as it scatters riches across earth sea and air. The speaker warns that nature drops seasons days and leaves, leaving humanity to fade until it tires of mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
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