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Newspaper
Dixon Sun
Location
Dixon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1872
Page
6
Tender philosophical verse asks where the baby comes from and answers with divine imagery. The poem explains origins of eyes, tears, smile, ears, arms, hands, feet, and growth as God thought of the child and angels blessed it.
A sensational narrative traces the Billy the Cadman murder in San Francisco to the Beale insanity case. The story in a reporter’s interview reveals a supposed confession by George Beale of the Cadman crime and links Eva Beale, a fiancé, to a tragic arc from love to murder.
In Paris Garrick and Preville ride a Versailles bound coach. Garrick, in disguise as a stranger, enters the coach twice and is admitted again after Preville’s plea for the stranger. A third time the coachman balks but Preville consents to admit him. A Danish edict punishes Mormon emissaries with corporal punishment. One baptized missionary of polygamy is flogged at Randers. Water to vapor conversion yields electricity.
The piece recounts Bennett Pieters once famous for Red Jacket Bitters who fell from wealth after legal battles over rival Red Cloud Bitters. After a decline fueled by alcohol and misfortune, he left commerce for military service as a cavalry recruit, described as small and unassuming in appearance.
A collage of wry items and jokes: wordplay on saw and sea, humorous travel notes, a thief and a scamper, odd inventions, a bear package with a pun, a four seasons riddle, verse parody, a jail escape by soap, a scolding maid, Portland cruelty joke, a blithe misinterpretation about tying a bonnet, Utah barbers, frog nervous systems, sidewalk sprinkles prank threat, a Bradford infant heel sighting, and Topsy-like astonishment at a servant’s mishap.
A speaker contrasts two life ages using a child with peach cheeks and golden hair beside a silver shaded elder. The poem frames life as a book with two pages the new and the olden where youth and age share stories and smiles.
The article notes Dolly Varden from Barnaby Rudge as the locksmith’s daughter whose name becomes a dress style. Dickens portrays her face as a pretty laughing girl, dimpled and healthful, the very image of goodwill and bloom. Her charms are said to be increased by a chic cherry mantle and hood with a straw hat trimmed in cherry ribbons.
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